Securely Deploy Autonomous Agents in Your AI Factory | AI Factory Insider Ep. 3

0:00 Introduction 1:43 Meet our guest: Anne Hecht 3:35 From gen AI to agentic AI: what actually changed 5:20 What broke the dam: enterprises seeing real ROI from their AI projects 6:50 Inside NVIDIA: 4 trillion tokens a day 7:17 Three words to describe AI agents: persistent, autonomous, self-evolving 11:05 The CFO view: tokens, marginal cost, and where AI runs 14:16 The IT & CISO view: manage agents like you manage employees 16:28 "Your agent is only as good as its connections" 17:59 Shadow AI is the new shadow IT 18:51 What's in it for users: privacy, confidentiality, and control 19:58 Easy is hard: designing a seamless agent experience 21:02 The GTC slide: Agent = harness, models, and tools 23:06 Agent skills & why fine-tuned open models cut cost 27:24 Securing agents: the Secure Agent Workspace & OpenShell 29:23 Confidential computing: protecting models & data in use 30:36 Product or reference design? What's what 32:52 Frontier vs. open models: it's an "and," not an "or" 34:35 The Linux parallel: open source as the OS of compute 36:51 Nemotron adoption & post-training 37:39 Jensen Huang on X & the Open Secure AI Alliance 40:14 Wrap-up