AI's next bottleneck isn't the models — it's whether agents can think together

AI agents can connect together, but they cannot think together. That’s a huge difference and a bottleneck for next-gen systems, says Outshift by Cisco’s SVP and GM Vijoy Pandey.As he describes the current state of AI: Agents can be stitched together in a workflow or plug into a supervisor model — but there's no semantic alignment, no shared context. They’re essentially working from scratch each go-around. This calls for next-level infrastructure, or what Pandey describes as the "internet of cognition." “Agents are not able to think together because connection is not cognition,” he said. “We need to get to a point where you are sharing cognition. That is the greater unlock.”Creating new protocols to support next-gen agent communicationSo what is shared cognition? It’s when AI agents or enti