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

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

From Making Data Simple by Making Data Simple

April 15, 2026 · 27 min · Season 10 · Episode 12

About this episode

Ruchir Puri discusses the future of AI, including predictions about AGI and the implications of open models for enterprises.

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

  • Artificial General Intelligence
  • AI Predictions
  • Open Models
  • Enterprise AI
  • Reasoning in AI

Keywords

  • AGI
  • Jensen Huang
  • IBM
  • AI
  • open models
  • reasoning
  • enterprise

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Organizations: IBM

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