AI has officially moved from experimentation to engineering and New York made that crystal clear. ⚙️ The AI Dev Conference 2025, hosted by Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI, brought together over 1,200 developers and industry leaders to focus on the real work: building reliable, governed, and production-ready AI systems. Bhuvan Reddy Yeturu and Bhaskar Gandavabi represented Fulcrum Digital Inc Digital at the event and the insights they brought back signal a major shift in how the industry is evolving. Across sessions from Vercel, Anthropic, Groq, Arm, LandingAI, AI21 Labs, Databricks, Datadog, and more, one theme dominated: The future won’t be won by bigger models; it’ll be won by better systems. Agentic architectures, multimodal workflows, and efficient on-device intelligence are now at the center of the conversation. Here are the standout signals shaping 2026: 🔹 Engineering > experimentation: Hands-on labs in context engineering and Fintech reliability showed how teams are moving from prototypes to hardened, scalable systems. 🔹 “Small AI” is accelerating: ARM’s efficient neural networks and on-device compute (especially post-Raspberry Pi’s Qualcomm acquisition) point to an era of distributed intelligence at the edge. 🔹 Trust is the new frontier: Panels with Nicholas Thompson, Domyn, and BlackRock reinforced that model integrity, governance, compliance, and privacy are now make-or-break capabilities. 🔹 Agentic platforms are rising fast: Cloud-agnostic toolkits like Amazon’s Strands SDK are attracting serious attention from teams wanting hands-on autonomy without vendor lock-in. 🔹 Developer productivity is exploding: New coding-assistant tools showcased how AI is augmenting developers not replacing them and widening the talent pipeline. And one insight stood above the rest: Every major company across finance, retail, logistics, and tech is now building AI internally with their own teams. They’re not waiting for vendors. They want ready-to-use platforms and agent-driven workflows they can deploy today. For us at Fulcrum Digital, it reinforces exactly where the world is heading: From isolated experiments → to fully integrated, reliable, agentic ecosystems that can be trusted with real business processes. #AIDevConference #DeepLearningAI #AgenticAI #AIEngineering #LLMs #MachineLearning #AIInnovation #FulcrumDigital #AIFuture #EnterpriseAI Which shift do you think will have the biggest impact on enterprise AI in 2026 trust, efficiency, or autonomy? Drop your thoughts below. 👇
