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Outshift by Cisco operates as Cisco's internal incubator for emerging technologies.
“Outshift operates as Cisco's internal incubator for emerging technologies, focused on reducing risk and delivering innovative results.”
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Papi Menon says the industry has made a great deal of progress in recent years in letting AI agents discover and connect with each other securely, which he calls syntactic communication.
“So we've made a great deal of progress over the last year and a half, two years in enabling agents to discover and connect with each other in a secure, scalable manner.”
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Papi Menon says the cognitive layer, which would give multi-agent systems a shared understanding of their mission, does not yet exist.
“And so this is that cognitive layer that we are talking about, and it is still very much, uh, something that doesn't exist today, you know?”
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A financial-services design partner built a network debugging tool with Outshift that simulates network changes on a digital twin before rolling them out.
“The idea here is that you can simulate what your network is like digitally, you can create um, a a digital twin, as it were.”
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Papi Menon says the multi-agent network debugging system built with a financial-services partner runs in production and has delivered benefits.
“This is a big, complex, multi-agentic system that we have built out with them. It is running in production today, and they've already, uh, realized great benefits from it.”
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Outshift built a healthcare demo in which an agent on Cisco's Webex platform talks to a user, learns their symptoms and performs initial triage.
“There's one agent that's running on our own WebEx platform. It interacts it interacts with the end user, understands what their symptoms are, does an initial triage”
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In Outshift's healthcare demo, the triage agent queries an insurer's agent to learn the user's coverage before choosing a provider.
“So it'll do things like, well, it'll talk to the insurance agent, and it will understand that for this specific individual, what is the insurance coverage that they have?”
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Outshift has moved from calling its vision the Internet of Agents to calling it the Internet of Cognition.
“enable this open interoperable, what we call the Internet of Agents, now we call the Internet of Cognition, being able to allow agents to talk to each other”
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