Infrastructure constraints, widening context gap, and trust deficit could impede AI's progress: Cisco President
Published on: Feb. 20, 2026, 3:46 p.m. | Source: The Economic Times
While speaking at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Jeetu Patel said AI has "completely changed and flipped" the modern software development process. Patel identified three major constraints that could slow AI adoption and advancement. "The first is infrastructure. There's just not enough power, compute, and network bandwidth in the world. Infrastructure is oxygen for AI," he remarked, pointing to limitations in memory capacity and data centre build-outs.
