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AI Agents Hit the Real Bottlenecks: Power, Evals, Access

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · 11 min

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NVIDIA’s Jim Fan, Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas, Braintrust’s Ankur Goyal and Vinod Khosla all push the same frontier: AI agents moving from demos to infrastructure, with power, evals, labor markets and private-market access becoming the real constraints.

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NVIDIA’s Jim Fan, Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas, Braintrust’s Ankur Goyal and Vinod Khosla all push the same frontier: AI agents moving from demos to infrastructure, with power, evals, labor markets and private-market access becoming the real constraints.

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