Cisco president breaks down factors that could hold AI back

Cisco president breaks down factors that could hold AI back

Chuck Robbins, CEO and chairman of Cisco, and Jeetu Patel, president and CPO of Cisco, sit down with CNBC’s Jon Fortt to discuss the company’s AI summit, agentic artificial intelligence, and more.

Cisco president flags AI roadblocks

Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel (pictured) outlined three impediments to mass deployments of AI in areas including agentic, robotics and large world models during the company’s AI Summit. The first is infrastructure constraint, despite the billions of dollars companies including Cisco, OpenAI and Nvidia are investing in AI. “We just don’t have enough power, compute and network bandwidth, [and] now memory,” Patel explained. …