What other industrial AI vendors actually shipped this quarter, what works, and what is still constrained — written so you can choose a control platform with eyes open.
Siemens just shipped autonomous AI for TIA Portal. Real multi-step reasoning, 5x speedup, 100-customer pilot. Here is what is genuinely new, what is still constrained, and what it means if you are choosing a control platform in 2026.
Rockwell shipped a domain-specific 9B SLM fine-tuned on FactoryTalk that runs on edge appliances and air-gapped servers. The most technically interesting incumbent move of the cycle. What it means for buyers in North America.
Hans Beckhoff's framing — AI out of chat windows, into machines — converges with what we believe at Interkey. CoAgent is the most architecturally aligned competitor in the market. Here is what they shipped, and where Brain still differs.