Nebius CTO: Why the Promise of Agents Doing Everything Is BS
HarperSCarroll · x · 2026-10-31
A podcast conversation with Nebius CTO Danila Shtan covering:
- Why the "agents can do everything" pitch is BS, and why the future is narrow workflows and smaller models
- Why companies are switching to open source models, and whether benchmarks are BS
- Views on doomerism, regulating open source AI, and the Hugging Face example
- Models becoming a commodity; "we are not a neocloud" — Nebius's positioning and ambitions
Related event: Nebius CTO Calls Universal AI Agent Promise "BS", Backs Narrow Workflows(3 posts)→
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