The Internet of Agents is rapidly taking shape, necessitating innovative foundational standards, protocols, and evaluation methods for its success.

Recorded at Cisco's office in San Jose, we welcome Giovanna Carofiglio, Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director at Outshift by Cisco. As a leader of the AGNTCY Collective (an open-source initiative by Cisco, Galileo, LangChain, and many other participating companies), Giovanna outlines the vision for agents to collaborate seamlessly across the enterprise and the internet. She details the collective's pillars, from agent discovery and deployment using new agentic protocols like Slim, to ensuring a secure, low-latency communication transport layer. This groundbreaking work aims to make distributed agentic communication a reality.

The conversation then explores the critical role of observability and evaluation in building trustworthy agent applications, including defining an interoperable standard schema for communications. Giovanna highlights the complex challenges of scaling agents to thousands or millions, emphasizing the need for robust security (agent identity with OSF schema) and predictable agent behavior through extensive testing and characterization. She distinguishes between protocols like MCP (agent-to-tool) and A2A (agent-to-agent), advocating for open standards and underlying transport layers akin to TCP.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:00 Overview of Agent Interoperability

02:20 What is AGNTCY

03:45 Agent Discovery and Composition

04:38 Agent Protocols and Communication

05:45 Observability and Evaluation

07:00 Metrics and Standards for Agents

09:45 Challenges in Agent Evaluation

14:15 Low Latency and Active Evaluation

23:34 Synthetic Data and Ground Truth

25:07 Interoperable Agent Schema

26:37 MCP & A2A

30:17 Future of Agent Communication

32:03 Security and Agent Identity

34:37 Collaboration and Community Involvement

38:28 Conclusion

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When AI makes creating content and code nearly free, how do you stand out? Differentiation now hinges on two things: unique taste and effective distribution.

This week, Bharat Vasan, founder & CEO at Intangible and a "recovering VC," explains why the AI landscape compelled him to return to founding. He sees AI sparking a new creative revolution, similar to the early internet, that makes it easier than ever to bring ideas to life. The conversation delivers essential advice for founders, revealing why relentless shipping is the ultimate clarifier for a business and why resilience, not just intelligence, is the key to survival.

Drawing from his experience on both sides of the venture table, Bharat breaks down the brutally competitive VC landscape and shares Intangible's mission: to simplify 3D creative tools with AI, finally bridging the gap between human vision and machine power. Listeners will gain insights on company building, brand strategy, and why customer obsession is the ultimate moat in the AI age.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:45 From Founder to VC and Back

03:17 Human Creativity in the Age of AI

07:50 The Role of Taste and Distribution

11:49 Building a Brand in the AI Era

16:17 The Venture Capital Landscape for AI Startups

20:11 Advice for Founders in the AI Boom

23:55 Incumbents vs. Startups

27:10 The New Generation of Innovators

29:19 Pirate Mentality in Startups

30:00 Building a Brand

36:28 Shipping and Resilience

41:49 Customer Obsession

46:58 The Vision for Intangible

51:52 Conclusion

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Unlocking AI agents for knowledge work automation and scaling intelligent, multi-agent systems within enterprises fundamentally requires measurability, reliability, and trust.

João Moura, founder & CEO of CrewAI, joins Galileo’s Conor Bronsdon and Vikram Chatterji to unpack and define the emerging AI agent stack. They explore how enterprises are moving beyond initial curiosity to tackle critical questions around provisioning, authentication, and measurement for hundreds or thousands of agents in production. The discussion highlights a crucial "gold rush" among middleware providers, all racing to standardize the orchestration and frameworks needed for seamless agent deployment and interoperability. This new era demands a re-evaluation of everything from cloud choices to communication protocols as agents reshape the market.

João and Vikram then dive into the complexities of building for non-deterministic multi-agent systems, emphasizing the challenges of increased failure modes and the need for rigorous testing beyond traditional software. They detail how CrewAI is democratizing agent access with a focus on orchestration, while Galileo provides the essential reliability platform, offering advanced evaluation, observability, and automated feedback loops. From specific use cases in financial services to the re-emergence of core data science principles, discover how companies are building trustworthy, high-quality AI products and prepare for the coming agent marketplace.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome

02:04 Defining the AI Agent Stack

03:49 Challenges in Building AI Agents

05:52 The Future of AI Agent Marketplaces

06:59 Infrastructure and Protocols

09:05 Interoperability and Flexibility

20:18 Governance and Security Concerns

24:12 Industry Adoption and Use Cases

25:57 Unlocking Faster Development with Success Metrics

28:40 Challenges in Managing Complex Systems

30:10 Introducing the Insights Engine

30:33 The Importance of Observability and Control

32:33 Democratizing Access with No-Code Tools

35:39 Ensuring Quality and Reliability in Production

41:08 Future of Agentic Systems and Industry Transformation

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