The View From Here: AI First Enterprises vs Everyone Else

In this episode of Built for Trust, Nick Lippis shares firsthand observations from ongoing conversations with enterprise IT leaders and technology providers across the industry.Nick explores the growing divide between AI-first enterprises that are moving aggressively into large-scale deployments and organizations that are still evaluating where AI fits, how to justify the investment, and how to manage risk. He unpacks why some enterprises remain quiet about their AI initiatives, how concerns around GPUs, cost, and power are shaping infrastructure decisions, and what’s driving the shift toward cloud-based versus on-prem AI strategies.The discussion also dives into how security and networking are becoming native components of AI infrastructure, why the control plane for agentic AI remains undefined, and how incumbent enterprise vendors are repositioning to close the gap between ambition and execution.This episode offers a grounded look at where enterprise AI really stands today, not the hype, but the reality from the field.New episodes of the Built for Trust Podcast come out every Thursday. Subscribe to get notified. See you next week!