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85% Pilot, 5% Ship: The AI Agent Deployment Gap No One's Talking About
Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises pilot AI agents but only 5% ship to production. At VB Transform 2026, Amazon's Bryan Silverthorn diagnosed the root cause: reliability, not capability. Here's what it will take to close the gap.
Lavamgam AIJul 16, 20268 min read read
The Signal
At VB Transform 2026 this week in Menlo Park, Bryan Silverthorn — Amazon's Director of AGI Autonomy — dropped a stat that should echo through every boardroom running AI experiments. According to Cisco data, 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents. Only 5% have shipped them to production. That's not a pipeline. It's a graveyard.
Silverthorn, who joined Amazon through its acquisition of Adept AI and now leads multimodal agent training inside the company's AGI lab, didn't come to...
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