Grace Gong - Security for AI, Agent-First Infrastructure, and Advice for Founders

Grace Gong, founder of Smart Venture Media and host of the Smart Venture Podcast, sits down with vCluster Labs CEO Lukas Gentele at AI Infra Summit. Grace spends her days interviewing C-suite leaders at large enterprises and founders of the hottest AI companies, which gives her a rare view of the gap between what AI can do and what big companies can actually ship at scale. Ahead of her AI safety panel, she breaks down why "security for AI" is where investment is heading, why agent-first infrastructure is the space she is watching most closely, and why AI agents need data structured very differently than humans ever did. Lukas and Grace also talk about Berkeley SkyDeck, where vCluster got its start, and close with advice for founders building in a market where a frontier lab can ship your product overnight: stop obsessing over competitors and build complete, end-to-end solutions that deliver real business impact. Chapters 0:00 Intro at AI Infra Summit 0:10 Grace's AI safety panel and the enterprise execution gap 1:13 Are VCs investing enough in AI security? 1:53 AI for security vs. security for AI: where the money is shifting 2:07 Grace's biggest bet in AI infrastructure 2:53 Agent-first infrastructure and how agents store data differently 4:04 Lukas on AI clouds going public 4:35 Berkeley SkyDeck and the vCluster origin story 5:17 AI regulation and innovation in legal 5:36 Advice for founders when a lab can cannibalize your business 6:16 Why customers want end-to-end solutions 6:42 Wrap-up About vCluster Labs vCluster Labs builds the infrastructure software AI clouds run on. vCluster provisions fully isolated tenant clusters for managed Kubernetes, Slurm, inference, Ray, and more. vMetal handles bare metal and VM provisioning, and vNode delivers tenant isolation at the container runtime level. Learn more: https://www.vcluster.com #AIInfrastructure #AISecurity #AIAgents #Startups #BerkeleySkyDeck #AIInfraSummit #vCluster