Takeaways from LangChain Interrupt 2026

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Takeaways from LangChain Interrupt 2026

Equity Research

Industry Update — May 18, 2026

U.S. Software

Our Call Ryan MacWilliams, CFA

We attended LangChain Interrupt 2026 in San Francisco where conversations pointed to Equity Analyst | Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Ryan.MacWilliams@wellsfargo.com | 212-214-1192

accelerating AI spend and growing OSS model interest, with production AI deployments

Zeeshan Raufstill progressing gradually across most enterprises.

Associate Equity Analyst | Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Zeeshan.Rauf@wellsfargo.com | 212-214-1120

Growing interest in open-source models. Enterprises are using OSS models to offset Chris Brazeau

rising AI token cost, particularly for simple tasks where frontier level performance is Associate Equity Analyst | Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

less critical. While Anthropic's Opus seems to remain the preferred model for coding Chris.Brazeau@wellsfargo.com | 929-767-5658

workflows, attendees suggested model performance is increasingly converging, driving Cyrus Motakef

more focus on the orchestration and harness layers as key differentiators moving forward. Associate Equity Analyst | Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Cyrus.Motakef@wellsfargo.com | 212-214-3334

• See page 4 for recap of MDB CEO / LangChain CEO fireside at the event

Figure 1 - The gap in performance between frontier and open-source models is

becoming more narrow

Source: LangChain

Note: Benchmarked at model default reasoning level

AI spend accelerating. Across our conversations was a clear theme of AI token spend

accelerating within enterprises (most cited monthly spend per developer in the L-MSD

thousands). Two large orgs said they now have $1k/dev/mo limits, while a senior SWE at a

F100 tech org told us he's spending ~$12k/mo on Claude Code/Codex (up from ~$100-