Cisco’s Jeetu Patel Says AI Entering Third Phase, India Poised To Shape Global Future

Jeetu Patel, President and Chief Product Officer of Cisco, said the world is now “squarely in the second phase of AI” — moving rapidly from chatbots to autonomous agents, with physical AI next. Patel revealed that Cisco has already built a product coded 100% by AI, with no human-written lines — signaling what he called a near-vertical acceleration in innovation. But he warned of three major constraints that could slow progress: infrastructure shortages (power, compute, data centers), a widening context gap in AI systems, and a growing trust deficit. His message is that the future will belong to nations that can “safely, securely and efficiently generate tokens.