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AI gets real here. On “Beyond the Pilot,” top business execs share what actually happens after the AI proof of concept — from infrastructure and org design to wins, failures, and ROI. Not theory, but deep dives into how they scaled AI that works.
VentureBeat hosts Beyond The Pilot: Enterprise AI in Action, a news show with 33 episodes published.
66% of enterprise AI teams are actively engineering toward zero human oversight — but only 4.5% fully trust their automated evals. Half have already shipped an agent that passed evals and still failed a real customer. Ve
Shopify's distillation pipeline cuts production AI costs by up to 30x — and in some cases, the smaller model outperforms the frontier model on the narrow task. That's not a trade-off. That's a win on accuracy, latency, a
If you enjoy these conversations, you need to be in Menlo Park this July. VB Transform 2026 is VentureBeat's flagship enterprise AI event, built entirely around one question: How do you orchestrate AI autonomy at scale?
Pinterest's open-source AI stack costs 90% less than frontier models — and their custom-trained recommender outperforms off-the-shelf alternatives by 30% in accuracy. Pinterest CTO Matt Madrigal breaks down exactly how t
Enterprise GPU hoarding is over. LinkedIn CTO Erran Berger and VentureBeat analyst Rob Strechay break down what comes next — and the infrastructure math most enterprises are only now being forced to confront. VentureBeat
The CEO who built one of the most-starred RAG frameworks on GitHub (47,000 stars) just publicly declared that frameworks like his are becoming obsolete — and then pivoted his entire company around that conclusion. Jerry
Cisco's OutShift deployed a multi-agent network configuration system that raised error detection from 10–15% to 100% and cut full change validation from 2–3 weeks to 6–7 minutes. The reason it worked — and why most enter
A QuickBooks customer discovered significant fraud by asking their AI assistant follow-up questions about transaction amounts that didn't add up. This isn't a demo — it's one of 3 million customers now using Intuit's AI
Major SaaS companies including Salesforce, Intuit, and ServiceNow saw stock drops of 45-50% as enterprises shift from bloated software suites to personalized AI agents that users can control directly. Microsoft just capi
LangChain told employees they cannot install OpenClaw on company laptops due to "massive security risk" — yet this unhinged approach is exactly what makes it work. Harrison Chase unpacks why OpenClaw succeeds where AutoG
On February 2nd, a single plugin wiped nearly $800 billion off the enterprise software market. Wall Street is terrified that AI agents are about to eat the legal industry's lunch. But LexisNexis isn't scared—they're buil
While most of the world is still running GenAI pilots, Mastercard is running AI inference on 160 billion transactions a year—with a hard latency limit of 50 milliseconds per score. In this episode of Beyond the Pilot, Jo
While the rest of the industry chases massive models, LinkedIn quietly achieved a major engineering breakthrough by going small. In this episode of Beyond the Pilot, Erran Berger (VP of Product Engineering, LinkedIn) ope
The "TAM" for AI Agents isn't software. And there is a $10 Trillion opportunity. In this episode, Replit CEO Amjad Masad reveals why 99% of today's enterprise AI agents are just "Slop"—unreliable, generic toys that fail
Inside the 'Agent Economy': How 30,000 AI Assistants Took Over JPMorgan While most enterprises were scrambling after ChatGPT launched, JPMorgan Chase was already two years ahead. 🚀 In this episode of Beyond the Pilot, w
We built AI agents by accident... and it worked. 🤯 In this episode of VentureBeat’s Beyond the Pilot, we go inside the engineering brain of Booking.com with Pranav Pathak (Director of Product Machine Learning). Pranav r
In our inaugural episode, we sit down with Ryan Nystrom, leader of the AI team at Notion, to pull back the curtain on Notion 3.0. Ryan reveals the journey of integrating powerful AI agents into the productivity platform
Lift-and-shift isn’t enough. MongoDB’s Vinod Bagal breaks down how to modernize your data for AI — and why waiting could cost you your competitive edge. Host: Sean Michael Kerner Guest: Vinod Bagal For more stories visit
AI is accelerating the cyber arms race — and former FBI agents Paul Bingham and Mike Morris say most enterprises aren’t ready. In this VB in Conversation, they break down the real-world threats targeting critical infrast
Key Insights and Takeaways from VentureBeat Transform Event: AI and Enterprise Innovation In this episode, Matt and Sam recount their experiences and insights from the recent VentureBeat Transform event, an annual gather
Jerry Liu
CEO and co-founder · LlamaIndex
1 appearance on this show
Vijoy Pandey
SVP and General Manager of OutShift · Outshift by Cisco
1 appearance on this show
Harrison Chase
co-founder & CEO · LangChain
1 appearance on this show
Amjad Masad
CEO of Replit · Replit
1 appearance on this show
Mike Morris
Elementary PE Teacher · Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools
1 appearance on this show
Paul Bingham
Director of Global Intelligence and Analytics, Transportation Consulting · S&P Global Market Intelligence
1 appearance on this show
Matt Madrigal
1 appearance on this show
Rob Strechay
VentureBeat
1 appearance on this show
Erran Berger
2 appearances on this show
Marianna Tessel
Intuit
1 appearance on this show
Min Chen
LexisNexis
1 appearance on this show
Derek Waldron
JPMorgan Chase
1 appearance on this show
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