--- title: Enterprise AI Will Be a Network, Not a Monolith | daily.dev description: Enterprise AI should be architected as a network of specialized small language models and agents rather than one giant centralized model, according to a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/enterprise-ai-will-be-a-network-not-a-monolith-hjkdfb2an twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Enterprise AI Will Be a Network, Not a Monolith | daily.dev og:description: Enterprise AI should be architected as a network of specialized small language models and agents rather than one giant centralized model, according to a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/enterprise-ai-will-be-a-network-not-a-monolith-hjkdfb2an og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Hjkdfb2AN.png og:image:alt: Enterprise AI Will Be a Network, Not a Monolith og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [SingleStore](https://daily.dev/sources/singlestore) [Read post](https://api.daily.dev/r/Hjkdfb2AN) # [Enterprise AI Will Be a Network, Not a Monolith](https://api.daily.dev/r/Hjkdfb2AN "Go to post") Enterprise AI should be architected as a network of specialized small language models and agents rather than one giant centralized model, according to a perspective from SingleStore's CEO. The piece argues that decomposing tasks across domain-specific models lowers inference costs and improves accuracy compared to routing everything through a single general-purpose LLM. It also contends that agent swarms create massive database concurrency demands, requiring a database capable of synchronized high-speed reads and writes, and advocates for keeping enterprise data in open formats like Apache Iceberg rather than locking it into a proprietary monolithic platform. 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