Eye On A.I.

Inference is now the biggest challenge in enterprise AI. In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith speaks with Nick Pandher, VP of Product at Cirrascale, about why AI is shifting from model training to inference at scale. As AI moves into production, enterprises are prioritizing performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency over raw compute. The conversation covers the rise of inference-f...

In this episode of Eye on AI, we sit down with Evan Reiser, co-founder and CEO of Abnormal AI, to unpack how AI has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity landscape.   We explore why social engineering remains the most costly form of cybercrime, how generative AI has lowered the barrier for sophisticated attacks, and why humans have become the primary attack surface in modern security. Evan expla...

In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith speaks with Jonathan Wall, founder and CEO of Runloop AI, about why AI agents require an entirely new approach to compute infrastructure.   Jonathan explains why agents behave very differently from traditional servers, why giving agents their own isolated computers unlocks new capabilities, and how agent-native infrastructure is emerging as a critical laye...

In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Anurag Dhingra, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Cisco, to explore where AI is actually creating value inside the enterprise. Rather than focusing on flashy demos or speculative futures, this conversation goes deep into the invisible layer powering modern AI: infrastructure. Anurag breaks down how AI is being embedded into enterp...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Most large language models today generate text one token at a time. That design choice creates a hard limit on speed, cost, and scalability. In this episode of Eye on AI, Stefano Ermon breaks down diffusion language models and why a parallel, inference-first...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why are AI, biotechnology, and gene editing converging right now, and what does that mean for the future of humanity? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with futurist and author Jamie Metzl to explore the superconvergence of artificial...

Try OCI for free at http://oracle.com/eyeonai   This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking.  Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today's innovative AI t...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why is AI so powerful in the cloud but still so limited inside everyday devices, and what would it take to run intelligent systems locally without draining battery or sacrificing privacy? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Steve Brigh...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/  and add your support. Why do some AI agents attempt to bypass shutdown, and what does this behavior reveal about the future of AI safety? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research to examine what recent shutdown experiments wi...

Why are enterprises struggling to turn AI hype into real workplace transformation, and how is Lenovo using agentic AI to actually close that gap? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith talks with Rakshit Ghura about how his team is reinventing the modern workplace with an omnichannel AI architecture powered by a fleet of specialized agents. We explore how Lenovo has evolved from a hardware...

Try OCI for free at http://oracle.com/eyeonai This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking.  Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today's innovative AI tec...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How will AI evolve once it can understand and reason about the 3D world, not just text on a screen? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Fei Fei Li about the rise of spatial intelligence and the world models that could transform how mac...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How could Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle become a blueprint for the future of AI? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Karl Friston, the neuroscientist behind the Free Energy Principle and advisor to Verses AI, to explore how a...

How are AI and telematics changing safety for fleets in the real world, and what does it take to get from basic recordings to true accident prevention? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Hemant Banavar, Chief Product Officer at Motive, and Ryan Ennis, CIO at FusionSite Services, to explore how AI powered cameras and telematics are transforming safety, productivity, and prof...

How are Decision Intelligence and AI agents reshaping enterprise operations today? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Fred Laluyaux, CEO of Aera Technology, to unpack how organizations move from dashboards and ad hoc workflows to a system that senses, decides, and acts.  AI is not just about chatbots. At the heart of this transformation is decision intelligence: connecti...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.    Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support.   Why do today's LLMs forget key details over long context, and what would it take to give them real memory that scales?   In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith explores Manifest AI's Power Retention architecture and how it rethinks memory, contex...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How do the world's most powerful AI models get trained and trusted at scale, and what does that really take from data to deployment? In this episode, Appen CEO Ryan Kolln joins Eye on AI to unpack how rigorous human evaluation, culturally aware data, and mod...

Why will agentic AI redefine every digital interaction, and what foundation do enterprises need to make it safe, trusted, and real time? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith sits down with Jeff Lunsford to unpack how a neutral customer data platform like Tealium becomes the control plane for agentic systems. We cover how to collect and unify first party data responsibly, enforce consent...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How is Coxwave Redefining AI Evaluation? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith is joined by Yeop Lee, Head of Product at Coxwave. Together they explore how teams move beyond accuracy-only metrics to outcome focused evaluation with Coxwave's Align. W...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Why do so many chatbots fail in the real world, and how can AI agents actually fix customer support? In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith explores how teams move beyond scripted bots to production-grade AI agents that resolve real issues across cha...

Try OCI for free at http://oracle.com/eyeonai This episode is sponsored by Oracle. OCI is the next-generation cloud designed for every workload – where you can run any application, including any AI projects, faster and more securely for less. On average, OCI costs 50% less for compute, 70% less for storage, and 80% less for networking.  Join Modal, Skydance Animation, and today's innovative AI tec...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents.  Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. How can enterprises truly scale with agentic AI?  In this episode of Eye on AI, host Craig Smith speaks with Greg Shewmaker, CEO of r. Potential, about how organizations can successfully implement agentic AI systems that enhance human performance instead of...

Discover how Neurix is building the next generation of voice AI that sounds and reacts like a human in this conversation with Peeyush, former Google technologist and co-founder of Miracle Labs. Peeyush shares how Neurix is solving the toughest challenges in conversational AI — from eliminating latency to creating natural, real-time dialogue that mirrors human interaction. He explains why voice is...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit  https://agntcy.org/ and add your support. Can AI and RNA testing make illness optional? In this episode, Eye on AI host Craig S. Smith sits down with Naveen Jain, founder and CEO of Viome, to explore how RNA sequencing and artificial intelligence are transforming our understanding of chronic disease...

This episode is sponsored by AGNTCY. Unlock agents at scale with an open Internet of Agents. Visit https://agntcy.org/ and add your support.   Joel Hron, Chief Technology Officer at Thomson Reuters, joins Eye on AI to unpack the future of agentic systems and what it takes to build them responsibly at enterprise scale. We dive into the shift from prompt-based AI to true agentic workflows capable of...