Cisco Exposes AI Data Gap: 55% of Enterprise Insights Unused

Cisco executives make the case that the distinction between product and model companies is disappearing, and that accessing the 55% of enterprise data growth that current AI ignores will separate winners from losers. VentureBeat recently caught up with Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer and DJ Sampath, Senior Vice President of AI Software and Platform, to gain new insights into a compelling thesis both leaders share. They and their teams contend that every successful product company must become an AI model company to survive the next decade.

When one considers how compressed product lifecycles are becoming, combined with the many advantages of digital twin technology to accelerate time-to-market of next-gen products, the thesis makes sense. The conversation revealed why this transformation is inevitable, backed by solid data points. The team contends that 55% of all data growth is machine data that current AI models don't touch.

OpenAI's Greg Brockman estimates we need 10 billion GPUs to give every human the AI agents they'll need, and Cisco's open source security model, Foundation-Sec-8B, has already seen 200,000 downloads on Hugging Face. Why the model is becoming the product VentureBeat: You've stated that in the future, every product company will become a model company.