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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) · Saturday, July 25, 2026

McCord CPO on Enterprise Skepticism Towards Frontier Models

Osvald Nitzky noted that large enterprises show skepticism and fear towards working with frontier models, particularly for core business workflows that differentiate them. However, for more general tasks like HR or procurement, companies are more open to using proprietary models.

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The way he said about the incredible skepticism we see from large enterprises towards data and sharing data with frontier model providers.
Harry Stebbings
We see it depend on the specific workflow and how core it is to the business.
Osvald Nitzky
It's the core work that the company is doing that's vital to its business that differentiates it from competitors, where we see more sensitivity.
Osvald Nitzky
Heard on The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) — “20VC: Mercor CPO on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs | Why Large Enterprise is Scared to Partner with Frontier Labs | Why Small Specialised Models is the Future with Osvald Nitski, published Saturday, July 25, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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McCord CPO on Enterprise Skepticism Towards Frontier Models — Heardvine