In Episode 3 of AI Factory Insider, host Kaushik Shirhatti (VP, AI Factory, NVIDIA) is joined by Anne Hecht (Sr. Director of Product Marketing, NVIDIA) to discuss autonomous agents that continuously learn and compound value, purpose-built AI factory infrastructure, and real-world use cases. What we cover: 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 Resources: Secure Agent Workspace Reference Design 👉 https://nvda.ws/3U9E1LE NVIDIA OpenShell 👉 https://nvda.ws/454Dmh2 NVIDIA AI Factory Validated Design Guide 👉 https://nvda.ws/4wGGHz0 AI Factories for Self-Evolving Agents (Kaushik & Anne's GTC Taipei session) 👉 https://nvda.ws/3TqVyim Deploying Proprietary Models Securely with NVIDIA Confidential Computing on Self-Hosted VMs 👉 https://nvda.ws/4cgmqI8 Deploying Proprietary Models Securely with NVIDIA Confidential Computing on Self-Hosted Kubernetes 👉 https://nvda.ws/4z0AjnO Building an Analysis AI Agent for Industrial Alarm Management with NVIDIA Nemotron 👉 https://nvda.ws/4xiIj1N

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