Who Will Own Your Company’s Ai Layer? Glean’s Ceo Explains

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12:49 PM PST · February 11, 2026

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Enterprise AI is shifting accelerated from chatbots that reply questions to systems that really do nan activity crossed an organization. But who will ain nan AI furniture that powers each of it? 

Glean, which started arsenic an endeavor hunt product, has evolved into what it calls an “AI activity assistant,” aiming to sit underneath different AI experiences, connecting to soul systems, managing permissions, and delivering intelligence wherever labor work. Investors are buying into the vision, excessively — nan startup raised $150 cardinal past twelvemonth astatine a $7.2 billion valuation as more competition heats up against tech giants bundling AI. 

Watch arsenic Equity host Rebecca Bellan sits down pinch Glean’s CEO and laminitis Arvind Jain astatine Web Summit Qatar to break down really enterprises are reasoning astir AI architecture, what’s driving consolidation, and what’s real versus hype successful nan supplier space. 

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Theresa Loconsolo is an audio shaper astatine TechCrunch focusing connected Equity, nan network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch successful 2022, she was 1 of 2 producers astatine a four-station conglomerate wherever she wrote, recorded, voiced and edited content, and engineered unrecorded performances and interviews from guests for illustration lovelytheband. Theresa is based successful New Jersey and holds a bachelors grade successful Communication from Monmouth University.

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