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title: Where is the moat once foundation models commoditise?
description: If models become interchangeable, whether the desktop agent harness becomes the defensible layer.
created: 2026-08-17
updated: 2026-09-27
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  inquiry: answered
  pillar: ai-agents
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## Question

Where is the moat once foundation models commoditise: the desktop agent harness? Foundation models have converged into interchangeable, probabilistic commodity inference engines (analogous to raw CPU silicon).

## Why it matters

It decides where builders should invest: model access, or the harness around it.

The full research is in the research notes.