本次视频内容主要探讨了人工智能（AI）的快速发展及其对各行各业带来的机遇与挑战。演讲者首先承认了在规划下一年度AI产品线方面存在不确定性，但强调AI的进步速度超出了预期，我们正迈入AI的新阶段。从2022年底的智能聊天机器人，到2025年的实验性应用，再到2026年预期的大规模投资回报和生产部署，AI正以前所未有的速度发展。演讲者预测，物理AI（如机器人技术和大型世界模型）也将很快到来。

Cisco 将AI的进步归结为三个主要瓶颈：
1.  **基础设施限制**：计算能力、网络带宽、内存和数据中心容量不足以满足AI的需求。Cisco 和整个行业都在为此投入巨资。
2.  **信任赤字**：用户对AI系统的信任度不足是推广应用的主要障碍。安全性已成为AI采用的先决条件，与生产力不再是此消彼长的关系。
3.  **数据鸿沟**：AI模型训练依赖的公开互联网上的人类生成数据正日益枯竭。合成数据和机器生成数据（尤其是在AI代理7x24小时运行的情况下）正变得越来越重要。

Cisco 致力于构建AI时代的关键基础设施。在过去一年中，他们取得了显著进展，包括：
*   **G200芯片**：用于数据中心内部的横向扩展，确保GPU集群协同工作，网络成为关键要素。
*   **P200芯片和8223路由器**：用于构建跨越数百公里甚至大陆规模的超集群数据中心，解决单个数据中心无法容纳大型模型或满足能源需求的问题。
*   **相干光技术**：应对铜缆和传统光纤的物理极限，支持数据中心间的超远距离连接。

Cisco 正在与超大规模云服务商、主权云、服务提供商合作，并为企业重新定义AI堆栈。与英伟达的合作旨在构建安全的AI工厂，使企业能够轻松部署AI基础设施。

演讲者强调了“Token生成”作为未来公司和国家经济繁荣与国家安全的核心货币的重要性。Token生成不仅限于数据中心，还应扩展到边缘设备，以满足低延迟应用的需求。为此，Cisco 推出了统一边缘解决方案。

AI安全与防护是另一重点。Cisco 推出了AI防御产品，并已获得CVS、NEC等公司的采用，以实现“安全AI本身”。同时，他们也在开发开源的基础安全模型，以降低AI的成本和复杂性。

为了简化日益复杂的基础设施管理，Cisco 开发了“Agentic Ops”平台，利用AI代理主动检测、修复问题，减少人工干预。AI自身也在加速AI的发展，目前Cisco 70%的AI产品代码由AI生成，并预计到2026年将有半数以上产品完全由AI编写代码。

最后，演讲者指出了AI发展面临的挑战：AI创新速度远超组织吸收能力，需要解决变革管理和文化适应问题。视频最后提出了一系列需要深入探讨的关键问题，如AI的ROI来源、主权与智能的权衡、语言模型是否足以实现AGI、以及物理AI的“ChatGPT时刻”等，旨在引发对AI未来发展方向的深入思考。

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Cisco AI Summit | Innovation Session with Jeetu Patel, President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco

Let me start with some bad news. Um, is
I have no idea what we're going to do
next year with the lineup.
So, we've got a little bit of a problem.
Um, but you know, AI is advancing faster
than any of us had ever anticipated. And
the reality is is we're going into the
next big phase of AI. We started with
these intelligent chat bots back in 22
in November um where you know you asked
it a question you gave it it gave you
back an answer that felt like magic and
now we are squarely in this phase of
aentic AI 2025 was a year of
experimentation a lot of people
experimented with uh with aentic AI in
26 you're going to see a lot of kind of
ROI getting realized and you're going to
see a lot of these applications get to
production and then shortly thereafter
as we starting to see that developments
happen at such a rapid pace. What you're
also going to see is physical AI is not
too far. And so we're starting to see
robotics and you're starting to see
large world models and all of those
things are starting to come together. So
at Cisco, as we've thought about this,
what we wanted to do was make sure that
we assembled the builders of AI and have
conversations rather than just talk
about pitching products and talk about
what specifically needs to happen so
that we can all get the most amount
harnessed from this movement that's
going on right now. And as we've thought
about that, you know, the one question
that we constantly keep asking ourselves
is what are the constraints? What are
the impediments that actually hold AI
back? And we think there are three major
ones. The first one is that we have an
infrastructure constraint. We just don't
have enough power compute and network
bandwidth now memory. You start to think
about data center shells to go out and
satiate the needs of AI. So that's going
to be an area that we are spending
billions on at Cisco and I think the
industry is spending you know trillions
in making sure that we can um we can go
out and um fulfill the needs of AI. So
that's the first area. The second is the
one that Chuck talked about which is a
trust deficit. We currently we need to
make sure that these systems are trusted
by the people that are using them
because if you don't trust these
systems, you'll never use them. And this
is the first time that security is
actually becoming a prerequisite for
adoption. In the past, you always ask
the question whether you want to be
secure or you want to be productive and
those were kind of um offsets of each
other. And now what you're starting to
see is if people don't trust these
systems, they'll never use them. So the
second area is a trust deficit. We need
to make sure that we trust not just
using AI for cyber defense but we trust
AI itself. So you got to secure AI
itself. And then the third area
um is this notion of um a data gap. And
what I mean by the data gap is these
models that get trained get trained on
human generated data that's publicly
available on the internet. We are now at
the point we're kind of we're running
out of human generated data publicly
available on the internet. And what
you're starting to see happen is
synthetic data is getting to be
extremely potent in training these
models. And then you're also starting to
see that the highest amount of growth of
data is happening with machine generated
data. And as agents get more and more
prolific and as you have these agents
working 7 by 24, you will see continued
amounts of acceleration and ex and
exponential on machine generated data.
And you know at Cisco it turns out we're
at the center of all of this stuff. And
what we're doing is working very hard to
make sure that we can build out the
critical infrastructure for the AI era.
And so that's the goal. Uh the past year
has been nothing short of incredible in
the amount of kind of progress that the
team has made. And I think we are
supercharging some of the world's
largest data centers uh with the entire
stack. We've got Martin Lond here who
runs our silicon business and we start
from that because we want to make sure
that we're actually starting with
silicon. So if you look at what we've
done over the course of the past year,
we started with the G200 chip which was
used for going out and making sure that
within a data center you can have
clusters that get worked together
because if you have a GPU that's
notworked, you don't really have an
entire application that can be run. So
you have to make sure that the the
network is an essential ingredient. So
the G200 chip was for the scale out. And
then we said, you know what what's
happening now is these these models are
getting bigger where they don't just fit
within a single data center. You don't
have enough power to just pull into a
single data center. So now you need to
have data centers that might be hundreds
of kilometers apart that operate like an
ultracluster that are coherent. And so
that requires a completely different
chip architecture to make sure that you
have capabilities like debuffering and
so on and so forth. So that you need to
make sure that these data centers can be
scaled across
physical boundaries. And so that's the
second area. And we actually built a
chip called the P200 chip. But we didn't
just build the chip, we also built the
entire system with the 8223 router. And
so that allows you to make sure that
these data centers are going to be
hundreds of kilometers apart today, but
eventually they'll get to continental
scale, right? And then lastly, you have
these, you know, we are le we're
reaching the physical limits of copper
and optics and coherent optics
especially are going to be extremely
important as we go start building out
this data center infrastructure. So
that's an area that you're starting to
see a tremendous amount of progress
being made. Now the reality is is only a
small number of firms can do this entire
full stack. And you know we've been
working with hyperscalers that you'll
hear a lot from today. We've been
working with NeoClouds. We've been
working with sovereign clouds that
you'll hear from today. Um, we're
working with service providers
and we're also redefining the AI stack
for the enterprise. And you'll hear this
with Chuck and Jensen later in the
evening, but we've actually got a
tremendous partnership with Nvidia where
we're building secure AI factories. Um,
and we want to make sure that we
continue to have enterprises find
infrastructure to be plug-and-play
because it's far too complicated today.
Now, the reality is why is it important
for the enterprises? Because I think
token generation is going to be one of
the core currencies of every company and
every country because your ability to
economically and efficiently generate
tokens will be directly proportionate to
national security as well as to economic
prosperity. And so we need to make sure
that we can actually make that as
efficient as possible um as as
productive as possible for for the
generation of tokens. But token
generation shouldn't be just limited to
data centers. We should also have token
generation happen at the edge.
And so as you start having a distributed
architecture, what we wanted to do is we
we've also provided this capability of a
unified edge where you can have these
branches and um the edge uh where you
can start having inference processing
occur rather than just being done at the
data center because sometimes the kind
of latency requirements that are needed
for applications, you might not have the
time to go and do a round trip um you
know to the data center.
So
regardless of where you are wanting to
generate tokens, we want to make sure
that we can actually participate, which
is why we're also pioneering
AI safety and security because one of
the things we want to do is make sure
that we are not just making sure that
these networks are connected, they're
securely connected. And so this notion
of not just using
AI for cyber defense, but also securing
AI is a pretty important dynamic. And
last year at this stage we launched a
product called AI defense.
And this year I'm delighted to announce
that we're actually starting to get the
world to be safer because companies like
CVS and companies like NEC, they're
starting to use these products within
their environments so that they can
actually secure AI itself.
And then the other thing that we've done
is we've made sure that we want to make
sure that this becomes economical. So
we're building our own foundation
security models and making sure that a
lot of those are available in the open
source community and we will continue to
keep doing that. So a combination of
products that we build as well as the
foundation security models are going to
be pretty important. But we're also
reimagining how agents will simplify
operations because one of the big areas
that you're starting to feel a
tremendous amount of pressure is this
infrastructure is getting very
complicated and it actually has to be
managed in a extremely um low friction
manner and agents can really help
materially lower the cost of complexity
for organizations. And so we've built
this entire apparatus and scaffolding
for agentic ops where these agents
can go out and make sure that they can
detect when something goes wrong before
it goes wrong and then proactively
remediate and fix it so that you don't
spend majority of your time
investigating an issue during an outage.
You spend majority of your time
responding and remediating to that out
outage as quickly as possible. And we
want to make sure that that once again
happens with models that are built that
are very bespoke for the infrastructure
that you're building. And so these are
the kind of investments that we continue
to keep making.
But the point in time in the industry
that we are at right now is a really
interesting juncture because
AI is itself helping us accelerate the
use of AI. And last year when we talked
about this, you know, it was it it
seemed like a far-fetched goal, but 70%
of all AI products now at Cisco
are using code that's generated by AI,
right? 70%.
And I would say that what's it's not
going to within the year 2026, we will
have at least close to a half a dozen
products that'll have 100% of the code
written by AI rather than written by
humans. Now, humans will still have a
very valuable role to play because
they're going to make sure that they're
writing specs and they're making sure
that they're actually um going out and
reviewing the code, but the bottleneck
is no longer going to be around the
writing of the code activity. the
bottleneck's going to be around the
reading and reviewing of the code
activity, you know, and so as we see
this progress, it's extremely exciting
and we want to make sure that the
builders of all of these technologies
are here today and what we want to do is
have some candid conversations. We have
not overly prepared the conversations.
We want to make sure that they flow and
they actually go in the directions that
people wanted to go. That's why we
wanted to do it in a fireside chat
format rather than making sure that
people came in and did keynotes. And as
AI innovation
actually continues, one of the
challenges that we have that we have to
collectively as a community address is
AI is moving at a pace much faster than
organizations have the capacity to
absorb it.
And that's actually something that has
to get solved for. And that's a change
management exercise. That's a cultural
exercise. That's something that we have
to make sure that we collectively as a
community work together on because just
building bigger faster technology that
doesn't actually keep in mind how that
technology can be absorbed is not really
going to go out and get us what we need.
So it's it's truly a paradox of
progress. On one hand, everyday AI
solving harder problems. On the other
hand, you can start to see that we are
struggling with articulating concrete
impact and ROI with these technologies
on a consistent basis uniformly
distributed across the entire um you
know globe. And so to resolve this
paradox, we have to answer some really
tough questions and that's what we want
to make sure that we actually have these
conversations with. And by the way, I
apologize from the beginning. It's going
to be a long day. Uh I didn't know we
didn't know of a way to make it any
shorter. U but this will this will test
your stamina. Um, but you know, we want
to make sure that we actually ask some
tough questions. So, for example,
you know,
where is the ROI for AI going to come
from? Is it going to come largely from
efficiency? Is it going to come from us
being able to solve problems that we
have never been able to think about
being solved before that are going to be
some things that are going to be in
there? You know, in this increasingly
nationalistic world that we're starting
to live in,
is sovereignty more important than raw
intelligence? Because every country,
every company might want to actually
make sure that they're actually focused
on resilience and sovereignty is a proxy
for resilience.
Are language models going to be enough
to get us to the movement of AGI or are
you going to need more? Are there going
to be large world models? Is physical AI
going to need to be a necessary
ingredient as we actually start to work
these things together? And if physical
AI is something that we believe is going
to be a necessary ingredient for us to
get to AGI, then what is that chat GPT
moment look like for physical AI? How
far are we from that? These are the kind
of questions we need to make sure that
we ponder. So what we don't want to do
is actually talk about individual
technologies, but talk about the larger
trends that are happening in the market.

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Cisco AI Summit | Innovation Session with Jeetu Patel, President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco

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