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The Neuron: AI Explained

The Neuron: AI Explained

AI Agents Are About to Move Off the Cloud. Here’s What Changes

Aug 5, 2026 · 55m

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What happens when the most capable AI lives in the cloud, but the work you want it to do is too private, expensive, or repetitive to send there every time? Dr. Olena Zhu, Head of AI Solutions & Ecosystem for Intel’s Client Computing Group, joins Corey Noles and Grant Harvey to explain Intel’s vision for hybrid AI: systems that route each task to the right place, whether that is a local model on a PC, a larger model on an edge server, or a frontier model in the cloud. The conversation explores why cloud-only AI may be difficult to scale, how an orchestration layer decides where work should run, and how Intel’s new SuperClaw beta combines local and remote intelligence. Dr. Zhu also explains…