Venture with Grace Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn Chief AI Officer on AI Platforms
Feb 7, 2026
Deepak Agarwal, Chief AI Officer at LinkedIn and former Pinterest AI leader, expert in recommender systems and AI platforms. He discusses building AI-first consumer platforms at scale. He covers scaling engineering orgs, durable AI stacks for hundreds of millions of users, the challenges of productionizing agentic systems, and the spectrum from copilots to autonomous collaborators.
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Data Flywheels Power Durable AI
- Data exhaust and self-learning loops are critical to make AI systems improve over time.
- Infrastructure that serves models efficiently completes the loop between models and product impact.
Agents Are The Next Phase Of Search
- Agents are an evolution of recommendations and search, requiring long-term reasoning and new evaluation metrics.
- Industry is in early agent days and needs foundational innovations before agents become mainstream.
Design Agents Along An Autonomy Spectrum
- Treat agent autonomy as a spectrum from copilot to collaborator to autonomous executor.
- Design agent UX and memory so users can give feedback and the agent improves over time.
