Scaling Intelligence Out: Cisco's Vision for the Internet of Cognition, with Vijoy Pandey
Vijoy Pandey of Outshift by Cisco lays out his vision for an “Internet of Cognition,” where AI agents can share context, build reputation, and collaborate safely at scale. He offers a useful mental model for superintelligence: progress has to scale in two directions — up, through better individual models, and out, through networks of agents and humans thinking together. The conversation explores how distributed, protocol-driven agent systems could give enterprises fine-grained permissions, auditability, and controlled interfaces, in contrast to today’s centralized frontier models. Vijoy also walks through Cisco’s internal CAIPE system of 20 cooperating agents, the open-source AGNTCY project, and a live multi-agent healthcare demo spanning diagnostics, insurance, pharmacy, and scheduling.
LINKS:
AGNTCY Project
Open source multi-agent infrastructure under Linux Foundation governance. Covers discovery, identity, communication, observability. Vijoy walks through the architecture at [00:34:57] and [00:41:17].
Scaling Out Superintelligence Whitepaper
The technical whitepaper detailing the Internet of Cognition architecture, three-layer stack, and cognition state protocols. Referenced at [01:25:40].
Internet of Cognition Interactive Demo
Clickable walkthrough showing per-agent activity, intent, context, and collective reasoning across a multi-agent SRE system. Vijoy demos at [01:26:20].
CAIPE Project (GitHub)
Cloud Native AI Platform Engineer. Multi-agent system with participation from Adobe, AWS, Cisco, Nike. 20 agents, 100+ tool calls, 10+ workflows. Referenced at [00:11:52].
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CHAPTERS:
(00:00) About the Episode
(04:16) Cisco and networking foundations
(13:34) Jarvis and ASI vision (Part 1)
(18:16) Sponsors: Tasklet | VCX
(21:09) Jarvis and ASI vision (Part 2) (Part 1)
(31:46) Sponsor: Claude
(33:59) Jarvis and ASI vision (Part 2) (Part 2)
(34:00) Practical multi-agent examples
(50:02) Multi-agent plumbing architecture
(01:01:44) Agent identity and TBAC
(01:15:23) Internet of cognition fabric
(01:21:48) Emergent agents and safety
(01:36:52) Outro
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964: In Case You Missed It in January 2026
In this first of the year ICYMI episode, Jon Krohn selects his favorite moments from January’s SuperDataScience interviews. Listen to why incentivizing workers is the best way to get them to disclose their use of AI tools and pave the way for an AI-forward future, how AI continues to mimic human development in its own evolution, the importance of evaluation in building AI systems, and how to keep your best employees (and also: how to know your value) with guests Sadie St. Lawrence, Ashwin Rajeeva, Sinan Ozdemir, Vijoy Pandey, and Ethan Mollick.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/964
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961: Distributed Artificial Superintelligence, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey
Dr. Vijoy Pandey returns to the show to talk to Jon Krohn about Cisco’s work to advance medicine and mitigate the impact of climate change with distributed artificial super-intelligence. Dr. Vijoy Pandey believes in a future where humans and AI agents work together to tackle our biggest challenges. For this to happen, we will need to have multi-agent systems and open-source platforms that let agents work together, avoiding the phenomenon of AI agents being “isolated geniuses” unable to collaborate. He elaborates on what Cisco is doing to close this gap.
This episode is brought to you by the Dell, by Intel, by Fabi and by Scaylor.
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In this episode you will learn:
(03:55) A definition of artificial super-intelligence
(14:03) Distributed learning through Cisco’s Outshift
(21:29) The semantic protocols for sharing intent in a distributed artificial super-intelligence framework
(37:44) The cognitive memory fabric of the distributed artificial super-intelligence framework
(46:24) Using cognitive engines as part of the distributed artificial super-intelligence framework
948: In Case You Missed It in November 2025
In this November episode of “In Case You Missed It” series, Jon Krohn selects his favorite clips from the month. Hear from Shirish Gupta and Tyler Cox (Episode 939), Vikoy Pandey (Episode 941), Marc Dupuis (Episode 937), and Maya Ackerman (Episode 943) on getting back to human motivation and the importance of evaluating the tools and data we use.
Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/948
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941: Multi-Agent Human Societies, with Dr. Vijoy Pandey
Vijoy Pandey imagines a bold new society in which agents and humans make scientific discoveries and complete physical tasks together, and he tells Jon Krohn about his work at AGNTCY, Cisco’s open-source platform for the Internet of Agents. Listen to the episode to hear Vijoy Pandey talk about how a future society in which multi-agents and humans interact may be a real possibility, what TCP/IP is, how to find trustworthy AI agents, and how to get your hands on AGNTCY today!
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In this episode you will learn:
(02:37) All about AGNTCY
(12:04) How an agent-human society might function
(15:19) What an “Internet of Agents” means
(27:17) The future of access management
(41:39) How to trust AI agents
(48:49) How to get started with AGNTCY
Building the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey - #737
Today, we're joined by Vijoy Pandey, SVP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco to discuss a foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all develop their own agentic systems, integrating them creates a complex, probabilistic, and noisy environment, a stark contrast to the deterministic APIs of the past. Vijoy introduces Cisco's vision for an "Internet of Agents," a platform to manage this new reality, and its open-source implementation, AGNTCY. We explore the four phases of agent collaboration—discovery, composition, deployment, and evaluation—and dive deep into the communication stack, from syntactic protocols like A2A, ACP, and MCP to the deeper semantic challenges of creating a shared understanding between agents. Vijoy also unveils SLIM (Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging), a novel transport layer designed to make agent-to-agent communication quantum-safe, real-time, and efficient for multi-modal workloads.
The complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/737.