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Cisco’s Chuck Robbins on AI’s perfect storm...if you’re a vendor in the right space

There’s a delicate balance that needs to be struck with AI, suggests Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. It’s the old ‘Goldilocks’ syndrome - not too hot, not too cold, just right. In the case of AI:

Most of our enterprise customers today, they recognize that we are in the midst of probably the fastest-moving technology transition that we've ever seen. And for my peers, the CEOs in these companies, there's a combination of ensuring that they're moving with enough caution that they actually get this right, but not moving too slow to where their competition actually creates a competitive differentiation that puts them at a dis-advantage.

What results from this in practice is:

They're continuing to move and they all have a real recognition that if they were to pause that they put the companies that they...

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