Arvind Jain: AI agents are shifting from RAG to process automation
Arvind Jain · Glean’s Breakthrough: CEO Arvind Jain on Scaling AI Agents & Search · Apr 24, 2025 · at 30:19
Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean, describes how enterprise requirements for AI agents have evolved beyond basic retrieval-augmented generation.
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“Agents are now getting a lot more powerful. They are, You know, they're getting they're sort of shifting from sort of basic two step rack kind of application flow where you take a task, you find some information, and then you make AI work on it to generate the right artifact. You know, you're moving from that to actually running very, very complex business processes.”
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