The product is no longer the model—it’s the agent. NVIDIA introduced its canonical agent architecture under a revealing title: “Agents Are Multi-Model, Multi-Cloud, and Hybrid-Cloud.”
At the center of modern AI systems: a reasoning engine cycling through Reason → Plan → Critique → Tool Use.
This isn’t a chatbot answering questions—it’s a system that decomposes problems, evaluates approaches, takes action, and learns from results. Jensen Huang’s declaration was explicit: “The agentic system is the interface.”
Users won’t interact with models; they’ll interact with agents. The model becomes a component; the agent becomes the product.
Multi-Model Architecture
The architecture reinforced this shift. A router connects to multiple model providers—Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI—alongside NVIDIA’s open models. No single model handles everything. Production systems route requests to specialized models based on task requirements:
Three enterprise deployments demonstrated this pattern in production:
CodeRabbit: AI-powered code review integrating multiple LLMs with specialized fine-tuning
CrowdStrike: Charlotte AI creates Hunt, Triage, and Recovery agents for real-time security
NetApp: Transforms unstructured documents into AI-ready knowledge graphs
Strategic Implications
Context engineering has replaced prompt engineering as the core skill. AI companies must think like systems integrators, not model trainers.
The companies that master agent orchestration—routing the right task to the right model with the right context—capture the value. The “wrapper” isn’t a bug—it’s the product.
Value has migrated from raw model capability to orchestration, memory, tool integration, and domain expertise. This is platform thinking applied to AI.
The Bottom Line
By 2026, the agent-as-product pattern has become the default enterprise architecture. Those building raw models compete on a commoditizing layer; those building agents capture the interface to users.
Gennaro is the creator of FourWeekMBA, which reached about four million business people, comprising C-level executives, investors, analysts, product managers, and aspiring digital entrepreneurs in 2022 alone | He is also Director of Sales for a high-tech scaleup in the AI Industry | In 2012, Gennaro earned an International MBA with emphasis on Corporate Finance and Business Strategy.
