Chris Burchett, Blue Yonder

In this interview from Blue Yonder AI and the Autonomous Supply Chain, Chris Burchett, senior vice president of AI at Blue Yonder, joins theCUBE's Dave Vellante to discuss how AI is transforming supply chains from reactive, fragmented operations into predictive, autonomous workflows. Burchett leads with Blue Yonder's scale — 27 billion machine learning predictions per day, roughly double Google's global search volume — before explaining how four years of cloud-native development now delivers one common data model across planning, warehousing and logistics. He details how a growing portfolio of AI agents is tackling decision latency head-on, from resolving warehouse allocation shorts to optimizing backhaul routing and automating freight auditing, elevating human workers to focus on judgment and strategy. The conversation also explores Blue Yonder's NVIDIA partnership and the strategic rationale behind building a proprietary model training factory. Burchett explains why frontier models alone create token bloat and reliability gaps in high-frequency supply chain operations, and how training 30B-parameter Nemotron open-weight models — roughly 1/60th the size of leading foundation models — delivers faster, cheaper "owned intelligence" for inner-loop agentic tasks. He details Blue Yonder's responsible AI framework, which embeds data sovereignty, synthetic-only model training and EU AI Act compliance into its development lifecycle, and describes how trust in autonomous agents is earned incrementally through threshold-based approvals. From compressing customer onboarding from months to 72 hours to a roadmap for multi-agent collaboration across warehouse, logistics and inventory operations within the next 12 to 36 months, Burchett outlines how Blue Yonder is positioning itself at the center of the shift from manual planning to machine-speed supply chain autonomy. Find more SiliconANGLE news and analysis https://siliconangle.com/ Follow theCUBE's wall-to-wall event coverage https://siliconangle.com/events/ Learn about the latest theCUBE events https://www.thecube.net/ 00:00 - Intro 00:06 - Revolutionizing Supply Chains: Navigating Complexity with AI 02:44 - Blue Yonder's Cloud Native Platform and Advances 04:51 - Innovations and Alliances: Embracing Cloud and AI at ICON 08:14 - Closing the Gap Between Insight and Action 11:37 - NVIDIA Partnership and Specific AI Models 17:27 - Owned Intelligence vs. Rented Intelligence 29:05 - Trust, Governance, and AI in Supply Chains 35:25 - Future Vision for Supply Chains and AI #theCUBE #BlueYonder #theCUBEresearch #NVIDIA #SupplyChain #AI