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The latest 20VC roundtable with Harry Stebbings, Rory and Jason ran through nine of the biggest stories in B2B and AI right now. Anthropic filing to go public the same week it closed a $65B round. Cognition at $26B. The best public software earnings week in two years. And a budget fight that is going to redraw the org chart of every engineering team on the planet.

The fastest-growing companies in B2B + AI are not running the customer success playbook the rest of the market spent a decade building. At the FDE / CS Summit at SaaStr AI Annual 2026, leaders from the companies setting the pace got specific about what they’ve thrown out and what they’ve replaced it with.

The lineup:

For 13 years, we’ve published 4,000+ posts, run hundreds of sessions, and shared just about everything we’ve learned about building B2B and now B2B + AI companies. But it’s mostly scattered. A post here. A video there. A deck from three years ago you could only find if you knew it existed.

So we fixed it.

Today we’re launching SaaStr AI University

We run SaaStr AI on 3 humans and 21+ AI agents. At SaaStr AI 2026 we did something we’d never done before: we pulled up the back ends of our top agents live, in front of the room, and went through how they really work. Not the demo version. The real version, including the parts that break.

This is that walkthrough, agent by agent, with the numbers and the stack behind ...

If you want a clean read on where AI is heading, look at the inference. Chris Clark, COO and co-founder of OpenRouter, runs the largest AI gateway in the world: around 70 model providers, hundreds of models, one integration that keeps working no matter which lab, cloud, or modality wins next. That vantage point comes with a number that lands hard. OpenRouter expects to proces...