Rob Strechay

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI.
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VB Pulse September

OpenAI's AI agent platform is used by twice as many companies as Anthropic's, new VentureBeat survey finds

Twice as many companies use OpenAI's agent orchestration platform as Anthropic's, VentureBeat Intelligence found in its September survey on agent orchestration. OpenAI holds that lead even though Anthropic may lead OpenAI on other important indicators. For example, Ramp, the corporate card and spending company, reports that more businesses now pay for Anthropic than for OpenAI.
Control layer

AI agents can be unpredictable. Your control layer shouldn't be.

In multi-agent systems, agents can be individually correct and still produce a wrong result when they work together. One agent’s output becomes another agent’s context. Information can be lost or misinterpreted during a handoff, shared state can drift, and agents can get stuck in loops or deadlocks. When several agents rely on the same underlying model, they may even reinforce the same mistakes rather than catch them.