As more corporate software budgets flow to AI firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic, established software vendors are stepping up discounts and free offers for AI products. Some enterprise and cloud companies are offering free trials or reduced prices to retain customers. Procurement software firm Zip said AI providers’ share of enterprise software budgets rose to 8 percent over the past year. Vendors and customers are also grappling with usage-based pricing that can sharply raise costs.

Aidnoth, an AI-native infrastructure technology startup, said on Tuesday it had launched NOS, an enterprise-grade meta-agent operating system it calls an AI Native Intelligence Foundation. The company said NOS runs as an “Agent Mega Factory” solution powered by six core modules covering requirement normalization, legacy integration, CI/CD, infrastructure orchestration, centralized knowledge assets and metering and settlement. It highlighted private beta PoC results including higher development productivity and shorter deployment lead times.