Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane

New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI agents run.For the last two years, the enterprise AI race has mostly been framed as a model war: OpenAI’s GPT series versus Anthropic’s Claude versus Google’s Gemini, with smaller and open-source alternatives also coming in from the U.S. and China. But the next strategic fight may not be over which model answers a prompt best. It may be over who controls the layer where agents plan, call tools, access data, run workflows and prove to security teams that they did not do anything they were not supposed to do.New VB Pulse survey data suggests the category is already taking shape. Our independent En