5 papers
The End of the Foundation Model Era: Open-Weight Models, Sovereign AI, and Inference as Infrastructure
Jared James Grogan
The foundation model era -- roughly 2020 to 2025 -- is over. The forces that defined it have inverted. Open source models have reached frontier performance while inference costs ap…
Evolution of AI Agent Registry Solutions: Centralized, Enterprise, and Distributed Approaches
Aditi Singh, Abul Ehtesham, Mahesh Lambe +8
Autonomous AI agents now operate across cloud, enterprise, and decentralized domains, creating demand for registry infrastructures that enable trustworthy discovery, capability neg…
Beyond DNS: Unlocking the Internet of AI Agents via the NANDA Index and Verified AgentFacts
Ramesh Raskar, Pradyumna Chari, John Zinky +15
The Internet is poised to host billions to trillions of autonomous AI agents that negotiate, delegate, and migrate in milliseconds and workloads that will strain DNS-centred identi…
Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a Next-Gen Trusted Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
Ramesh Raskar, Pradyumna Chari, Jared James Grogan +11
The emerging Internet of AI Agents challenges existing web infrastructure designed for human-scale, reactive interactions. Unlike traditional web resources, autonomous AI agents in…
AgentFacts: Universal KYA Standard for Verified AI Agent Metadata & Deployment
Jared James Grogan
Enterprise AI deployment faces critical "Know Your Agent" (KYA) challenges where organizations must verify third-party agent capabilities and establish trust without standardized m…