On May 25, 2026, Google released Agent Executor — an open-source framework for deploying AI agents at production scale. Thirteen hours after that announcement, one truth became clear: the future of enterprise AI agents is open-source.
Not proprietary. Not vendor lock-in. Open-source.
And 5ac — a Vietnamese technology company — has been betting on this thesis from day one.
Google just confirmed what 5ac believed last year
When 5ac chose Hermes Agent as the core platform for G-Company OS, it looked like a bold decision. Hermes Agent was a young open-source project at the time, competing against giants with R&D teams of hundreds.
Eleven months later, Hermes Agent surpassed OpenClaw to become the most-used open-source AI agent in the world (Tech Times, May 15, 2026). NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership, calling Hermes the key to "unlocking self-improving AI agents" running on RTX PCs and DGX Spark.
And now, Google officially enters the arena with its own open-source agent framework. This is not competition. This is validation.
5ac's strategic thesis has been market-validated: Enterprise AI agents will be built on open-source foundations — where businesses own their data, code, and infrastructure. No vendor lock-in. No dependency on any single company's roadmap.
Three events in 13 days that changed the game
In less than two weeks, the AI agent market witnessed three unmissable milestones:
1. Google Agent Executor (May 25) — An open-source framework for enterprise agents. Google isn't building a packaged product. They're releasing source code for the market to build on. This is the clearest signal from Big Tech: they believe open-source is the winning architecture for enterprise AI.
2. Hermes Agent hits #1 globally (May 15) — NVIDIA selects Hermes as a strategic partner. Installation tutorials appear on Hostinger, Incrypted, and Bitcoin News. The fastest-growing community in open-source AI agent history. 5ac is the only company in Vietnam that has already built a commercial product on this platform.
3. DeepSeek enters the coding agent race (May 25) — DeepSeek is recruiting a "Harness" team in Beijing to build DeepSeek Code, a direct competitor to Claude Code and Codex. Their advantage: tokens 20-100x cheaper. This means: the coding agent market is about to be commoditized. And whoever has a flexible model-swap stack wins.
Why should Vietnamese businesses care?
The Vietnamese market has a characteristic that few notice: we are latecomers, but we have the opportunity to leapfrog.
Vietnamese businesses aren't shackled by legacy infrastructure like American or European corporations. They don't have 50-person IT teams maintaining 15-year-old SAP systems. They need lightweight, low-cost solutions — and most importantly, they need to own their technology.
Strategic perspective (Peter Thiel, CSO 5ac): "Big Tech is busy fighting each other in the coding agent market. They're not looking at Southeast Asia. Enterprise AI agents for SMBs in emerging markets is a $10B opportunity no one has tapped yet. This is a 'secret' that few can see."
5ac doesn't compete with Claude Code or Codex. 5ac builds G-Company OS — a complete enterprise operating system where 42 specialized AI agents (Sales, Marketing, Ops, Dev, CS, Finance, etc.) coordinate under one person's command.
5ac's competitive advantages — and why they're durable
There are three strategic advantages no Vietnamese competitor has:
1. Mastery of core technology. 5ac is not just a user of Hermes Agent — we are contributors. Our engineering team understands every layer of the system deeply: from GPU kernels, model inference, agent orchestration, to RAG knowledge brains. When Google changes the rules of the game, we don't wait for a vendor update. We update ourselves.
2. Model-agnostic stack. G-Company OS runs on DeepSeek V4 Flash — 20-100x cheaper than Claude or GPT. When DeepSeek Code launches, we can integrate it immediately without changing architecture. While competitors using Claude Code get priced out, 5ac maintains the cost advantage.
3. Productized for the Vietnamese market. Hermes Agent is a global platform. G-Company OS is a Vietnamese product. Vietnamese interface. Support via Telegram and Zalo. VND payment. Real case studies with Vietnamese businesses. This is what no foreign company can do.
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The bigger picture: From coding agents to enterprise agents
The coding agent war (Claude Code vs Codex vs DeepSeek Code) is grabbing all the attention. But that's a battle at a very narrow layer: automating code writing for developers.
The bigger picture is enterprise agents: AI that doesn't just write code, but runs the entire business. Automating sales, marketing, customer service, operations, finance processes — 14 domains, 42 agents, coordinating 24/7.
This is the market that Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are all targeting. But they're targeting US enterprises. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese SMB market — with 800,000+ small and medium businesses — is waiting for the right solution.
"The best enterprise deals are the ones competitors don't even know exist. Right now, every major AI lab is staring at the coding-agent war. Nobody is looking at Vietnamese SMBs. That's our secret. Let's not waste it."
— Peter Thiel, CSO 5ac
But is open-source really safe for enterprises?
The most common question when we talk about open-source AI agents: "Is it secure?"
The answer: More secure than proprietary.
With a proprietary solution, you hand over your enterprise data to another company. You don't know how the code runs. You can't audit. You're dependent on their roadmap.
With open-source, everything is transparent. Code is public on GitHub. You can run it on your own VPS. Data never leaves your server. And if one day you no longer want to use our service — you keep the entire system.
5ac chose the setup fee + support subscription model, not SaaS recurring. We sell expertise, not lock-in.
Chief Evangelist at 5ac. Former Chief Evangelist at Apple and Canva, author of 15 books including The Art of the Start. Now helping Vietnamese businesses harness the power of open-source AI agents.
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In summary
The AI agent market is entering a decisive phase. Google confirms open-source. Hermes Agent leads globally. Coding agents are in fierce competition — and the enterprise agent market for SMBs is wide open.
5ac chose the right direction from day one. And we believe this advantage will create lasting value for Vietnamese businesses over the next 5-10 years.
The question is no longer "should I use AI agents?" The question is — will you choose open-source or proprietary? And when will you start?
— 5ac.vn, May 2026. Built on Hermes Agent, powered by NVIDIA and DeepSeek. For Vietnamese businesses.
Last updated: 26/05/2026