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Time of India
06-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Beyond agentic AI: Autonomous factories, exoskeletons, and AI as a physical stack
Shanker Trivedi, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business, NVIDIA Pradeep Gupta, Vice President, Generative AI & Accelerated Computing, NVIDIA Susan Marshall, Senior Director, Developer Relations, NVIDIA Prerna Dogra, Director, Product Management & Developer Ecosystems, Healthcare AI, NVIDIA Rajani Parameshwar, Senior Director, Corporate Development, NVIDIA Live Events Next generation warehouses and factories that autonomously produce cars. Wearable exoskeletons that respond to a person's movements in real time and enhance ergonomic support, mobility, and rehabilitation. 'Embodied' hospitals that have AI integrated in physical agents such as robots to support operational and medical tasks. The everyman — whether a biologist, librarian, musician, and so on — as a developer in a specific of this may sound like science fiction, but it is science fact that will inevitably come to be in the near future. That was the broad takeaway of the grand panel, 'The Future of AI – Platforms, Innovation, & Investments' on day three of TiEcon 2025, the world's largest tech conference, and the biggest in its 32-year history, took place this May in the heart of Silicon Valley. The conference brought together 3,000-plus entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders from around the globe. With over 180 speakers and this year's theme, 'AiVerse', the conference showcased the transformative power of innovation. Under the leadership of TiE Silicon Valley President Anita Manwani, TiEcon continues to drive a culture of transformational change, fostering new ideas, connections, and opportunities for the next wave of global panelists for 'The Future of AI – Platforms, Innovation, & Investments' were:Some highlights from the discussion:Apart from exoskeletons that can detect intent and locomotion and support wearers without manual input, AI use cases in healthcare extend to brain-computer interfaces, especially for conditions like Alzheimer's disease. In hospitals, embodied AI can function autonomously through a combination of sensors, robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. And in the realm of biotechnology, initiatives such as AlphaFold are predicting protein structures with atomic-level precision, revolutionising medical and biological research.'Our journey started about 15 years ago with sensor processing. Building on that stack, we now have a world-class, medical-grade, real-time sensor processing platform called HoloScan. It's the first of its kind: the foundation of what we're seeing in intuitive, robotics-assisted surgery,' Prerna Dogra said. 'We also founded an open-source project called MONAI or the Medical Open Network for AI. It's crossed five million downloads and is a benchmark in medical R&D. There's an explosion of startups and AI agents shaping how care is delivered. In Silicon Valley alone, you have 17, 18, 19 such verticals.'NVIDIA's Developer Relations division is bridging the gap between developers and cutting-edge tech by giving stakeholders — including startup founders — the partnership and support required to build applications accelerated by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Its Senior Director Susan Marshall, a former founder herself, now works with startups across financial services, robotics, and healthcare for their full AI stacks. Through prepackaged 'containers' called NVIDIA Inference Microservices or NIMS, the company offers workstations, data centres, and neo-clouds that effectively streamline the running of AI models.'We now have 22,000 startups in our programme, and it's growing. It could even be two guys in a garage that have a great idea, and we'll go out and help,' Marshall said. 'NVIDIA is a very founder-friendly company. We are check size-agnostic and stage agnostic. Between the two investing arms of NVIDIA, CorpDev and Nventures, we pretty much cover a wide gamut of startups.'NVIDIA is currently helping solve domain-specific problems in 20-plus industries, ranging from drug discovery and retail checkouts to algorithmic trading and digital twins in is a major investor in 'neo-clouds' or AI-focussed cloud providers. And because GPUs are energy-intensive, the company has taken a proactive approach to partnering with startups that work to reduce energy bottlenecks via sustainable energy solutions such as wind, solar, geothermal, and carbon company's Jetson edge AI platform is also being deployed in smart meters in the US. Capabilities include processing troves of local energy data, predicting grid conditions, helping utility providers optimise load management, and helping consumers reduce their bills through real-time energy management.
Economic Times
06-06-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
‘If cyber crime was a country, it would be the third largest GDP'
When it comes to cyber crime, the numbers are stark: ADVERTISEMENT It currently costs the world $9.2 trillion On average, it takes a threat actor 72 minutes to gain access to user data, and that number is going down About 20% of data breaches today are as a result of insiders As the world's largest security company, Microsoft tracks 7,000 password attacks each second. That's 600 million attacks a day The number of attackers (such as unique nation state actors and financial crime actors) Microsoft is tracking has gone from an average of 300 every day to 1,500 increase. These were some of the eye-opening statistics Microsoft's CVP of Security, Vasu Jakkal, underlined in her revelatory keynote address on day two of TiEcon 2025, the world's largest tech conference, and the biggest in its 32-year history, took place this May in the heart of Silicon Valley. The conference brought together 3,000-plus entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders from around the globe. With over 180 speakers and this year's theme, 'AiVerse', the conference showcased the transformative power of innovation. Under the leadership of TiE Silicon Valley President Anita Manwani, TiEcon continues to drive a culture of transformational change, fostering new ideas, connections, and opportunities for the next wave of global entrepreneurs. In keeping with the AiVerse theme, Jakkal underscored the importance of security as a foundation for AI. Because Microsoft has a $20 billion security business that processes 84 trillion signals every day, it is uniquely positioned to observe emerging threats such as wallet abuse, word prompt injections, and large language model (LLM) poisoning. Other highlights from the keynote included: How agentic AI can bolster securityAgentic AI, designed to autonomously make decisions and accomplish given goals with minimal human supervision, is already addressing challenges in healthcare, education, transportation, and security. In the near future, both individuals and organisations could have agentic AI in the form of unique, interactive personas. Think an agent that helps with deep research for your startup, an analyst agent that converts raw data into insights, a chief staff agent that manages schedules every day, or even a home companion agent that can tutor children and plan family such agents become digital colleagues and thought partners, the question to ask is: what risk can their prevalence pose to us? This is where critical security considerations come in. The questions to ask are: ADVERTISEMENT What is your identity strategy? What permissions do such agents have? How are you protecting your data? Do you have the right data leakage policies If agents are working across teams, companies, or homes, what are the privacy considerations? As agents become pervasive, human defences will need to scale at the speed and scale of AI. Which is why we need to think about agents for security, and AI for security in general. In 2023, Microsoft began focusing on security-focused AI by launching the GPT-4-based Security Co-Pilot. It takes open source models, grounds them on the trillions of security signals and data in its repository, and refines them on security skills. The result is faster and more accurate threat prevention. ADVERTISEMENT How agentic AI can address gaps in security Around 4.6 million jobs in security remain unfulfilled globally. In this context, AI agents can enable potential talent to develop required today is largely reactive. Agentic AI agents can predict and stop novel attacks before they happen. As an example, they can identify data risks when an organisation puts data structures in place. They can autonomously apply identity and access policies so the right people can have access to the right things at the right time, for the right reasons. And such policies can be dynamically adjusted. ADVERTISEMENT In workplaces, such agents can also be part of SaaS AI apps or custom enterprise offerings such as the Azure AI Foundry, Amazon Bedrock, or Google Vertex. What more Microsoft is doing to secure the future of AI In November 2023, Microsoft launched the Secure Future Initiative, a multi-year cybersecurity effort that shapes how it designs, builds, tests, and operates products and services to meet security standards. Apart from operating the largest security initiative in the world, Microsoft ties executive compensation to security and has 14 deputy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) who oversee security engineering teams. Employees across the company are also taken through a security skill academy. ADVERTISEMENT 'We review our security updates with Satya [Nadella, CEO] every other week and send a report every week. And we have a meeting with the board, of course, every quarter. The first meeting starts with security,' Vasu Jakkal shared. 'Security is a team sport. It deeply matters and turbocharges our product flywheel of defence, because we use all these learnings from security to build better products.' TiEcon 2025, which ran from April 30 to May 2, featured eminent tech executives as other grand keynote speakers. ICYMI, here are the takeaways from Satya Nadella's discussion on what makes a generational company in the AI age.
