1:28:03MIT Prof. Ramesh Raskar: The Internet of AI Agents: Why AGI Won’t Be One “God Model”?
In this episode of Masters of Automation, Alp Uguray sits down with MIT Professor Ramesh Raskar to explore a future where AI shifts from centralized “foundries” (massive cloud models) to a world of personal, edge-based agents that we own, customize, and connect—an Internet of AI Agents (see Project NANDA). Raskar traces his journey from a small town near Nashik—where curiosity and constraint shaped his mindset—to being inspired by Jurassic Park, then “waking up” to the power of storytelling and human realism through South Park, which ultimately pulled him from computer graphics into machine learning and systems thinking. From there, the conversation dives into his core thesis: the next frontier isn’t bigger models—it’s AI that’s closer to your data, your context, and your control. They unpack the idea of Agent Zero (a private AI agent for every person), how agents might evolve through foundations → commerce → societies, and why the next big economic layer may be agent teaming/orchestration rather than models or apps. They also confront the two diverging futures: a “quiet dystopia” dominated by a few agent stores versus a “green curve” world of billions of micro-AIs empowering global creativity and shared prosperity. The episode closes with Project NANDA—Raskar’s effort to build core infrastructure for trust, naming, certification, interoperability, and ongoing attestation in an open agentic ecosystem (open-source repo, research paper). Guest Bio Professor Ramesh Raskar is an MIT professor and researcher known for building ambitious, system-level technologies spanning computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and decentralized AI.…