Show: Me, Myself, and AI · Publisher: MIT Sloan Management Review + BCG · Host: Sam Ransbotham, Shervin Khodabandeh
Episode URL: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/building-better-answers-with-ai-agents-saps-walter-sun
Publish date: 2025-05-13
Duration: NAs
Default source credibility: HIGH — MIT SMR + BCG joint production. Named F500 CxOs on-record about production AI deployments. Academic/consulting co-brand keeps claims disciplined. Host has light BCG framing; guest metrics stay HIGH.
- SAP is leveraging large and small language models to enhance both internal and external use cases, focusing on specialized AI agents for better context and efficiency.
- SAP’s AI hub provides access to over 30 large language models, enabling internal and external developers to use the best model for their specific needs.
- SAP is building a tabular foundation model to complement large language models, using business data and predictions to provide valuable insights without compromising privacy.
Extracted quotes
| # | Credibility | Speaker | Org | Timestamp | Topic | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HIGH | Walter Sun (Senior Vice President and Head of AI) | SAP | 04:12 | 02-corporate-tools | We provide business benchmarks to different cases and then recommend the best language model for one’s use case. |
| 2 | HIGH | Walter Sun (Senior Vice President and Head of AI) | SAP | 05:27 | 07-adoption-challenges | We provided this enterprise-grade LLM. Many people try and people try again and again. But millions of instances of access to LLMs. |
| 3 | HIGH | Walter Sun (Senior Vice President and Head of AI) | SAP | 24:06 | 01-ai-native-landscape | We’re building a tabular foundation model to complement the large language model using the same transformer-based technologies that are used by LLMs for this tabular model. |
Per-quote detail
1. Walter Sun — SAP (04:12)
We provide business benchmarks to different cases and then recommend the best language model for one’s use case.
- Credibility: HIGH — Named executive with specific claim about SAP’s AI hub and model recommendation process.
- Topic tag:
02-corporate-tools
2. Walter Sun — SAP (05:27)
We provided this enterprise-grade LLM. Many people try and people try again and again. But millions of instances of access to LLMs.
- Stat: millions of instances of access to LLMs, 2023
- Credibility: HIGH — Named executive with specific metric about internal LLM usage.
- Topic tag:
07-adoption-challenges
3. Walter Sun — SAP (24:06)
We’re building a tabular foundation model to complement the large language model using the same transformer-based technologies that are used by LLMs for this tabular model.
- Credibility: HIGH — Named executive with specific claim about SAP’s new tabular foundation model.
- Topic tag:
01-ai-native-landscape
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