NVIDIA's Rama Akkiraju on How AI Platform Architects Help Bridge Business Vision and Technical Execution
NVIDIA, Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Enterprises across industries are exploring AI to rethink problem-solving and redefine business processes. But making these ventures successful requires the right infrastructure, such as AI factories, which allow businesses to convert data into tokens and outcomes.
Rama Akkiraju, vice president of IT for AI and machine learning at NVIDIA, joined the AI Podcast to discuss how enterprises can build the right foundations for AI success.
Drawing on over two decades of experience in the field, Akkiraju provided her perspective on AI's evolution, from perception AI to generative AI to agentic AI, which allows systems to reason, plan and act autonomously, as well as physical AI, which enables autonomous machines to act in the real world.
What's striking, Akkiraju pointed out, is the acceleration in the technology's evolution: the shift from perception to generative AI took about 30 years, but the leap to agentic AI happened in just two. She also emphasized that AI is transforming software development by becoming an integral layer in application architecture - not just a tool.