Highlights from Agentic AI Summit 2026: Industry Leaders on the Future of Agents
dawnsongtweets · x · 2026-08-12
The Agentic AI Summit 2026 at UC Berkeley drew 5,000 in-person and 100,000 online attendees, echoing a core message: the future of AI is agentic.
Key insights from industry leaders include:
- Peter DeSantis (Amazon): AI infrastructure is fundamentally a systems problem, not just a chip or model problem.
- Andrew Ng: There is no AI job apocalypse; the real issue is a severe shortage of skilled AI engineers.
- Jerry Tworek (Former OpenAI): The next two years will be the era of architecture, with the biggest gains coming from stepping away from transformers.
- Ryan Lopopolo: We are in a capability overhang where models are far more capable than their current real-world side-effects.
- Michele Catasta (Replit): Evaluation should be an engine to ship better agents daily, not just a final check before shipping.
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