Dell CTO John Roese says proprietary knowledge, not AI models, is Dell's edge
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Dell CTO and chief AI officer John Roese says companies adopting AI agents must change how they operate, not only deploy new tools.
He argues that a company's competitive advantage lies in its proprietary knowledge, which he says is encoded in Markdown skill files that guide agents, rather than in the models or tools themselves.
Roese says Dell can use both frontier and open models but should keep that knowledge in-house. The report is a single SiliconANGLE interview from October 20, 2026, and reports no figures or deployment results.
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AIDell CTO and chief AI officer John Roese says companies adopting AI agents must change their operating models, not just deploy tools. He argues a company's moat is its proprietary knowledge, encoded in Markdown skill files that guide agents, rather than the models or tools themselves. Roese says Dell can use frontier and open models but should keep that knowledge in-house.
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