Cisco Unveils JARVIS: AI Assistant Transforming Platform Engineering

Cisco's innovation arm, Outshift, has introduced JARVIS, an AI-powered assistant that optimizes platform-engineering workflows by offering a conversational interface to simplify complex tasks, thereby significantly reducing execution time and cognitive load. Integrating with over 40 tools, JARVIS allows seamless infrastructure provisioning and application onboarding to CI, using familiar tools like Jira and Webex, and can complete tasks such as CI/CD pipeline setups in under an hour. Its hybrid AI architecture, employing large language models and rule-based validation, ensures accuracy and reliability, while retrieval-augmented generation enhances its knowledge capabilities. JARVIS is currently used internally at Cisco, with plans to open-source its components. Additionally, Cisco is partnering with ServiceNow to enhance secure AI adoption, focusing on governance and risk management through integrations that enhance visibility, vulnerability management, and incident response. This collaboration aims to simplify AI workflows and provide robust security frameworks as organizations scale their AI initiatives, with field trials set to begin soon and a full rollout expected by the latter half of 2025.