iia/1300 MIT Media Lab x HCLTech NANDA

• MIT Media Lab x HCLTech - NANDA

  • meta
    • A special announcement on new initiatives at the intersection of AI and global innovation.
    • [Announcement]
    • 1:00 PM
    • Person/Ramesh Raskar
      • MIT Media Lab
      • Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
    • Person/Apoorv Iyer
      • HCLTech
      • EVP & Global Head Generative AI
    • Person/Vijay Guntur
      • HCLTech
      • CTO & Head - Ecosystems & Practices
  • topics
    • announcement - nandahack.media.mit.edu
      • Nanda/Hack - Agentic AI Hackathon
        • 1st prize 10k, 2nd prize 5k, 3rd price 3k
      • Person/Ramesh Raskar
        • starts today
          • this is the building infrastructure layer
        • phase 1 closes 2026-05-07 Thu
          • enterprise agent track sessions due
        • battle of bots - agent arena begins
          • there could be backstabbing, data that needs to be paid for
          • conclusion is 2026-06-13 Sat at MIT/Media Lab
        • AI/Agent/Wallets
    • 13:20 - about NANDA use case Person/Ramesh Raskar
      • Dr. John is creating a prompt, that creates a network of intelligence
        • this is AI/Agent/ic/Commerce
      • AI/Agent/Use/Case - birthday planning
        • an agent is going to figure out what your daughter and her friends want, and then you purchase everything for the birthday party
      • Decentralized AI/Agent stuff is needed
        • he was in india - want every citizen to have an agent
        • significant part of the civilization is not tech savvy enough for a phone
        • not just about productivity
        • right now, we are in the Mainframe/Era but we need the World-wide/Web of agents
        • we'll have trillions of agents, eventually ... these
        • OpenClaw and "zero claw" (first time I'hve heard of that)
        • TinyML - Google/AI/Model/Gemma
      • last 14 years from AlexNet to now have been about how AI can learn
        • but next years will be about how agents can they can train each other
        • these AI/Agents to betray each other, there will be coalitions
        • Co-Learning
        • mainframe -> PC -> internet :: AI -> Agent -> network
      • need for specialized agents use case
        • high-frequency trading
          • price discovery
            • how do we price intelligence?
            • what is the value of the agent?
        • agentic commerce
      • who will build the agentic web infrastructure
        • this will be the Stock/Market for AI agent infrastructure
      • NANDA is an effort to look at the chokepoints
        • it's not about the protocols anymore
      • Research - 3 main problems
        • Registry
          • identity
          • onboarding
          • handshakes
        • knowledge pricing
        • Co-Learning
          • agentic societies
      • Research Roadmap