Agentic AI for Every Industry | GTC Live Washington, D.C. Chapter 2

Hello, and welcome to a special GTC edition of the NVIDIA AI podcast. This is the second of five episodes on the road to GTC live in Washington DC. Bonus conversations you won't hear anywhere else. Today, we're exploring agentic AI for every industry. Intelligent systems are beginning to plan, reason, and act, reshaping how industries work. In this episode, builders share how these intelligent capabilities are moving from research into real world impact. Enjoy the conversation and visit ai-podcast.nvidia.com afterwards to check out our library of over 275 episodes of the NVIDIA AI podcast. You know, when people talk about winning the AI race, it's not just about faster chips or bigger models. It's about scale and deploying the American technology stack across the world. That's right, Brad. From semiconductors to frameworks, from the cloud to the developers who built it, I believe America is currently winning that race. And that dominance in AI is really fueling a new era where millions of AI agents will exist to help us in every part of business and in life. AI is no longer a single application. AI systems now decide, design, and deliver. Across sectors, autonomous agents are transforming how work gets done from strategy to execution. To discuss how agentic AI is transforming every industry, we put together another incredible panel starting with Aravind Srinivas, founder cofounder and CEO of Perplexity, Shiv Rao, founder and CEO of Abridge, Scott Wu, founder and CEO of Cognition, and, of course, George Kurtz, the founder and CEO of CrowdStream. You know, Aravind, let's start with you. Nobody has innovated more on the chatbot, on search, on the browser now, in AI than perplexity. You've consistently been a step ahead, although fighting maybe up a mountain against bigger incumbents. So tell us now, what comes next for the agent? What do you see out there? What is hiding in plain sight? Yeah. First of all, thanks for having me here. What is really our vision for the browser is not to launch yet another browser. We think of Comet, our browser, as a personal assistant for all of us here. Essentially, a second brain to delegate all the mundane, boring work. So it gives us a lot more time to explore and just be ourselves on the web. The Internet is just a lot better if you can ask questions from wherever you are, whether you're on a web page, you're in a Google Doc, or you're in your Slack workspace, or you're actually on an AI tool. It doesn't matter. You can just ask questions from wherever you are. So that's what we learned first time when we launched Comet. The number of questions a user asks on Comet was six to 18 x more than what they ask on perplexity even on other browsers. So that's just because the AI is there with them everywhere. And they're starting to do a lot of awesome things, like setting up their own Shopify …