Still Essential: Ruchir Puri on AGI, Jensen Huang's Bold Prediction, and Why Reasoning Is the Missing Piece {Replay}

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Ruchir Puri discusses the future of AI, including predictions about AGI and the implications of IBM's open models.

Send us Fan Mail Last week we brought back Part 1 of our Ruchir Puri masterclass. This is the episode that completes it. If Part 1 was about how AI works — agentic loops, inference scaling, the death of prompt engineering — Part 2 is about where AI is going. Ruchir takes on the biggest questions in the industry: Is Jensen Huang right that AGI arrives by 2029? What does IBM's bet on open models actually mean for the enterprise? And what does it take to build AI with not just intelligence, but ...

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Guest: Ruchir Puri

Topics covered

• AGI
• AI
• open models
• enterprise

Keywords

• Jensen Huang
• reasoning
• intelligence
• prompt engineering

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Products: IBM

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