Topic

Model choice

Routing across frontier models instead of betting on one.

The month agents moved in, Fig's recap of AI in September 2026.
PerspectivesOct 2026

September 2026: the month agents moved in

The month in AI. Always-on agents went mainstream, frontier models got cheaper and harder to get at the same time, and safety stopped being theoretical.

The AI roll-up, a Fig playbook for private equity firms building an AI roll-up platform.
PlaybooksSep 2026

Building an AI roll-up platform

Private equity invented buy-and-build. The AI roll-up is being built mostly outside it. How a private equity firm can run the model, from choosing the vertical to the platform, the people and the exit.

The PE AI playbook, a Fig guide to AI across a private equity investment from diligence to exit.
PlaybooksSep 2026

The private equity AI playbook

What a fund should actually do with AI at each stage of an investment, from diligence through exit, and how to build AI EBITDA that survives the next buyer's diligence.

Choosing a partner, a Fig guide to the kinds of AI partner for a private equity portfolio.
PerspectivesSep 2026

Choosing an AI partner for your portfolio

Lab-owned deployment firms, consultancies, integrators, platform partners or building it yourself. Four questions that separate them, and why model choice matters over a seven-year hold.

Your advantage, a Fig post on what a university holds that nobody can copy.
PerspectivesSep 2026

Your advantage is already on campus

Access to capable AI is now ordinary, which moves the question from what an institution can buy to what it already has. Four things a university holds that nobody can copy, and how each becomes a system.

Build or buy, a Fig post on which parts of an AI program to rent and which to own.
PerspectivesSep 2026

What to build, and what to buy

Enterprises are buying most of their AI and worrying about what they bought. The build-or-buy line does not run between layers of the stack. It runs through every one of them.

Evals, a Fig post on why enterprise AI needs an evaluation built from its own work.
PerspectivesSep 2026

Why evals matter

The public benchmarks stopped measuring anything useful this year. The instrument you build for your own work is the one that decides everything else.

Your own model? A Fig post on when to use the frontier, open weights, or a post-trained model.
PerspectivesSep 2026

Should I train my own model?

Where the model market stands this month, what each class is for, what the industry and the law constrain, when post-training pays, and how Fig thinks about it.

Flash or Thinking, a Fig post on how Fig routes every task.
ProductSep 2026

Flash or Thinking: how Fig routes every task

Two lanes that outlast any model, the signals the router reads, how a model earns traffic, and when to overrule it.

Sovereign AI, a Fig Research report. A neoclassical stone facade in motion blur under afternoon light.
ResearchSep 2026

Sovereign AI: the operating playbook

Sovereignty is a capability, not a location. Five rights, a ladder of infrastructure routes, and four proofs to run before production.

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