Fortune 100 firms show less Chinese-model adoption as companies build internal AI tools

Fortune 100 companies are reported to show substantially less adoption of Chinese AI models, with perceived risk cited as a factor. Cost remains important as usage scales amid frontier-model price competition.

Companies are weighing when to use third-party coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex and when to build their own systems. The case for internal AI workflows is described as stronger than it was six months ago, partly because company-specific documents, ticket-routing paths and organizational structures are difficult to replicate in general-purpose tools.

The source also describes a low barrier to entry for agent-style products, making distribution important, and says Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies are increasingly building internal agents and applications that might have seemed unnecessary two years ago.