Microsoft, Google rule AI vendor market for enterprises

Dive Brief: 

• Microsoft dominated in enterprisewide AI due to its expansive partner and platform ecosystem, while Google’s integrated AI agent tech stack and scalable enterprise adoption support made it the company to beat in enterprise agentic AI, according to a Gartner report published Wednesday.The research firm highlighted current frontrunners across nearly 30 AI technology races. 
• Gartner’s companies to beat categories included data and infrastructure, model and agentic, industry, solutions and cybersecurity, which includes leaders in AI security platforms. Palo Alto Networks came out on top in the cybersecurity category, while OpenAI was named a leader among large language model providers for its…