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Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
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Vijoy Pandey from Cisco's Outshift discusses his vision for an "Internet of Cognition." This concept involves AI agents sharing context, building trust, and collaborating safely at scale. Pandey explains that AI progress needs to scale both internally (better models) and externally (networks of agents and humans). The episode explores how distributed agent systems can offer enterprises control and auditability, contrasting with current centralized AI models. It covers Cisco's internal CAIPE system, the open-source AGNTCY project, and a multi-agent healthcare demonstration.
Imagine AI agents that can talk to each other, remember past conversations, and build a good reputation, all while being controlled and watched. This episode explains how such a system could help businesses and healthcare work better by letting many AIs cooperate safely and effectively.
This episode offers a glimpse into a future where AI agents operate collaboratively and securely, moving beyond today's monolithic models. It's for enterprise leaders, AI developers, and anyone interested in the infrastructure for advanced AI systems. Pandey's vision of an "Internet of Cognition" directly addresses the scaling and safety challenges that frontier labs like OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic are grappling with as they develop more powerful, interconnected AI.
- HostNathan Labenz
- GuestVijoy PandeyOutshift by Cisco
- Guest: Vijoy Pandey, Outshift by Cisco
- Title: Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
- Show: The Cognitive Revolution
- Length: 96 minutes
- Concept: Internet of Cognition
- Projects Mentioned: CAIPE, AGNTCY
Vijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco lays out his vision for an “Internet of Cognition,” where AI agents can share context, build reputation, and collaborate safely at scale. He offers a useful mental model for superintelligence: progress has to scale in two directions — up, through better individual models, and out, through networks of agents and humans thinking together. The conversation explores how distributed, protocol-driven agent systems could give enterprises fine-grained permissions, auditability, and controlled interfaces, in contrast to today’s centralized frontier models. Vijoy also walks through Cisco’s internal CAIPE system of 20 cooperating agents, the open-source AGNTCY project, and a live multi-agent healthcare demo spanning diagnostics, insurance, pharmacy, and scheduling.
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Open source multi-agent infrastructure under Linux Foundation governance. Covers discovery, identity, communication, observability. Vijoy walks through the architecture at [00:34:57] and [00:41:17].
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Scaling Out Superintelligence Whitepaper
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The technical whitepaper detailing the Internet of Cognition architecture, three-layer stack, and cognition state protocols. Referenced at [01:25:40].
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Internet of Cognition Interactive Demo
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Clickable walkthrough showing per-agent activity, intent, context, and collective reasoning across a multi-agent SRE system. Vijoy demos at [01:26:20].
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Cloud Native AI Platform Engineer. Multi-agent system with participation from Adobe, AWS, Cisco, Nike. 20 agents, 100+ tool calls, 10+ workflows. Referenced at [00:11:52].
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00) About the Episode
(04:16) Cisco and networking foundations
(13:34) Jarvis and ASI vision (Part 1)
(18:16) Sponsors: Tasklet | VCX
(21:09) Jarvis and ASI vision (Part 2) (Part 1)
- Superintelligence
- Vijoy Pandey
- AI that is much smarter than humans.
- Agent
- Vijoy Pandey
- A piece of AI software that can perform tasks or make decisions.
- Auditability
- Vijoy Pandey
- The ability to check and verify the actions and decisions made by a system.
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Questions people ask
- What is the "Internet of Cognition"?
- It is a vision where AI agents can share context, build reputation, and collaborate safely at scale, enabling progress in both individual models and networked intelligence.
- What is AGNTCY?
- AGNTCY is an open-source multi-agent infrastructure project under Linux Foundation governance, covering discovery, identity, communication, and observability for AI agents.
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