Cisco Gave All 90,000 Employees Their Own AI Agent

Good morning. Networking-equipment maker Cisco rolled out a personal AI agent for all of its 90,000 global employees this week.

The AI agent, called MyAgent, is personalized to each employee, Cisco Executive Vice President of Operations Thimaya Subaiya recently told me in an exclusive interview.

Cisco’s AI agent program is one of the first examples of a widespread agent rollout inside a large company, and one where the autonomous bots are set to accomplish a variety of tasks on behalf of their humans.

AI agents have become more powerful and capable of performing different tasks, from writing code to answering customer support inquiries and analyzing financial data. Agent adoption also has been growing among businesses—helping drive the usage of tokens and compute that pushed Nvidia to yet another blowout quarter yesterday.