Current AI agents are powerful but lack memory, context, and safety, behaving like "genius goldfish." This summary explains the necessity of an AI Agent Operating System (OS) to provide essential infrastructure for managing memory, tools, identity, and governance, making agents reliable, scalable, and trustworthy.
This talk explores the journey of building Viktor, an AI employee that lives entirely in Slack. It details the unique challenges of scaling an AI agent from a personal tool to a company-wide coworker, focusing on memory isolation, context management across different Slack interactions (DMs, channels, threads), and the surprising importance of the AI's personality for user adoption.
Brandon Hill, co-founder and CEO of Vori, discusses how his company is digitizing the $1.5 trillion grocery industry with an all-in-one OS. He covers their journey from a simple ordering app to a full-stack platform, the use of AI agents to automate pricing and inventory, and their vision for the 'self-driving' grocery store.
Varant Zanoyan, original author of the Chronon feature platform, introduces 'agentic experimentation'—a pattern where AI agents improve high-stakes ML systems without making live decisions. He explains how Chronon solves key challenges like infrastructure sprawl, safety, and reproducibility through a semantic API, branch-based isolation, and compute reuse, enabling agents to safely create production-ready pipelines for human review.
A tour of MLX, the on-device AI framework for Apple Silicon. This talk explores real-world applications from real-time vision and multimodal omni models to sub-100ms speech synthesis and video generation, all running locally. It highlights breakthrough techniques like Turbo Quant for 1M context and showcases community projects in robotics and native apps, arguing for a future where powerful AI runs without the cloud.
Alexander Taubman, CEO of Long Lake Management, details their pioneering 'AI take-private' strategy, using a horizontal AI platform called Nexus to acquire and transform traditional service businesses. He explains why ownership trumps SaaS for driving real-world AI adoption, focusing on growth and creating a positive-sum flywheel for employees and customers, exemplified by their acquisition of Amex GBT.