Back in 2019, Kannan Kothandaraman helped to start Selector AI after spending years in the networking trenches at big vendors including Juniper and Cisco.
Since the beginning, the vision for Selector AI is to build a technology that helps networking professionals better operate and optimize network infrastructure and services. The company’s founding team was inspired by what it learned while working with hyperscalers. They noticed how these large companies are able to use data from multiple domains to make data-driven decisions for their network operations, rather than letting the network dictate how the business should be run. The Selector AI founders saw an opportunity to bring this data-driven approach to non-hyperscaler companies and started building a solution alongside early design partners. It’s an approach that has continued to grow and scale over the years.
In September, the company debuted its network language model for netops, bringing the power of generative AI to the platform. This week the company announced the …