Stop chatting and start acting.

BY BHAVIN SHAH, CO-FOUNDER OF MOVEWORKS

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For the last two years, the corporate world has been obsessed with GenAI’s ability to summarize and synthesize. We have marveled at large language models that can take meeting notes, draft email responses, and summarize large amounts of data.

But as we enter 2026, the novelty of chatbots is fading. We are reaching the limit of how much value we can extract from AI that simply points us to information.

This saturation is exactly why OpenAI recently issued a “Code Red” alert. When the novelty wears off, users stop marveling at the technology and start scrutinizing the utility. The frantic pivot to shore up core model performance against competitors signals that the “chat” phase of AI has become a commodity war. The easy growth driven by fascination is over and the market has moved from being impressed by conversation to demanding results.

The next 12 to 18 months will define a massive transformation in the enterprise. We are moving from an era of synthesis to the era of agentic AI, systems capable of autonomous decision making and executing complex workflows.........

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