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The State of Conversational AI, Q3 2026

Published 28 August 2026 · data as of August 2026 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22131590

A map of the whole conversational-AI stack: architecture, open-source adoption, the model and harness layers, how AI assistants answer the category, and the AI talent market. Built entirely from primary data.