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Dec 2, 2025 8:00 AM

MongoDB CEO Says Enterprise AI Agents Are Mostly Just 'Pilots,' Despite Industry Hype: Says It Is 'Fairly Early'

Database platform MongoDB Inc.’s (NASDAQ:MDB) CEO, Chirantan Desai, said that while AI remains the dominant theme in tech, agentic AI remains in pilot mode, not yet ready for scaled, production-level use cases.

Agentic AI Still In ‘Pilot’ Stages

During the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Monday, Desai said that the excitement around agentic AI has yet to translate into large‑scale, real‑world deployments.

He said that he had yet to see “AI agents running in production that fundamentally transform the business or serve customers better,” adding that so far, he has only come across many “pilots” that were still going on, with ...