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How's it going?

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Who is the most energized in the room?

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Whoever that was, most energized.

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Well, welcome back for the closing keynote block here at AI Engineer New York 2026.

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I'm Alex Lieberman, co-founder, co-managing partner at Tenex, applied AI partner for Fortune 500 businesses.

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And we are most of the way through the first session today.

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and hopefully it's been filled with incredible conversation,

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which I'm going to share a little bit about some of the conversations I've had offstage in a minute.

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But hopefully the

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mix of the programming, the conversation you've had amongst everyone has been really fruitful today.

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Now, before we hop into the final block of the day, let's just take a moment again to give a round of applause to our partners who make this entire event possible.

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let's start with our presenting sponsor, Arize. Let's give a shout out to Arize.

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yeah rise next up we have our platinum sponsors oracle sonar work os and exa let's give a shout

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out for them and then two more we have gold sponsors i love them all they're all my favorite

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children can't read them all off right now but thank you so much our silver sponsors

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and to all of our supporting partners who make this possible thank everyone yeah i don't know

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if that was the first person who said they have the most energy, but that person has a lot of

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energy. So before we hop into the next block, one thing that I just wanted to share, and I'm sure a

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lot of you are already feeling this already, is not only is the energy palpable across the room

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in between all of the sessions, but what you realize when you come to AI Engineer is that

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the content is incredible. The speakers that are curated are incredible. The depth by which they

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talk about the work they're doing is incredible. But this is also just surface area that acts as

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a starting point for conversation amongst everyone in the room. And so for me, not only has it been

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incredible to stand in the back of the room at various points in the day and just listen to

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these incredible speakers who are truly living in Edge City, but then to use all of these

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conversations, all these talks as surface area to have conversations with folks. So a few

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conversations that come to mind that I've had throughout the day because of the content. One

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was a conversation with swyx, one of the people behind this incredible event. We were talking

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about just the diffusion gap that exists in enterprise AI right now. And just some fun

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stats for you all. We talked to hundreds of big enterprises at 10X across financial services,

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healthcare, industrials, et cetera. And the way I think about diffusion of AI across these

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organizations is almost in milestones of a race. So the first big milestone at an enterprise is

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just adopting a general purpose LLM. Out of curiosity, of the, let's call it 100 firms we

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talked to, what percentage of those firms do you think have adopted and rolled out an LLM to all

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their employees. Someone screwing out a number. 9%, I think I heard. 17%. So specific. 90%. So

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90% of the enterprises we work with have rolled out a general purpose LLN. Under that is people

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actually getting trained in how to use the technology, how to actually use these surfaces

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in their work. That's like 60%. Next up is coding agents, agents that are actually used within

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in engineering and product workflows.

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That's around 50% of all the enterprises we've been in.

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And then the final one, where we are truly still day one,

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is agents actually working in non-engineering workflows

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in an organization.

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That is around 5% right now.

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So going back to what I said earlier,

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this community really is Edge City.

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The topics that are being talked about,

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we are going to continue to see those play out

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over the next 12, 24, 36 months.

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I've had a variety of conversations like this throughout the day.

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It's a fusion gap, open source versus fine-tuned models,

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how hard it is to hire great AI engineers at scale.

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And so as we go about the rest of today,

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but also as you think about the conference in general,

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use the content as a starting point

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to have interesting conversations at the edge.

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With that, I would love to introduce you to our next talk,

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which is with Frank Long, the head of AI at Coatue.

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He's gonna be talking about a hedge fund as a function. Let's welcome Frank