“The network is the computer.”
— John Gage, Sun Microsystems (1984)
Reprogramming the Network
Infrastructure has become a museum of protocols.
TCP/IP. UDP. BGP. Control planes bolted on. Scripts layered over scripts.
A stack built to route static traffic, not to support living systems.
But that’s exactly what we’re deploying now.
AI agents operate across fragmented hardware. Inference runs in bursts across cloud platforms, edges, on-prem.
Decisions happen at machine speed, on workloads the network can’t see, in topologies it doesn’t understand.
What coordinates all of this? There’s no unified layer. No memory across hops. No mechanism for shared reasoning. No packet intelligence.
Instead: a maze of tools, stitched together by human intuition and institutional habit.
Partial visibility. Opaque failures. Orchestration, if it happens, is reactive.
We think that’s untenable.
Narrative Violation
The dominant narrative says networking is solved: More bandwidth. Faster chips. Smarter clouds.
But the foundation was built for people.
Not for AGI.
Not for agents reasoning across environments.
And certainly not for coordination at machine speed.
The narrative says the network doesn’t matter.
We say it’s the constraint.
What We’re Building
Cosmic Labs is building what’s missing:
A system that understands what’s happening—and acts.
Not a dashboard. Not a faster pipe. Something else.
It closes the gaps between agents, data, and infrastructure.
It brings coordination where there’s never been any.
The goal isn’t to speed up one part.
It’s to make the whole system intelligent.
Why Now
The cracks are showing.
Agents stall. Inference jobs vanish. Systems drift, silently.
The problem isn’t scale. It’s coordination—across systems, environments, and execution paths.
Every patch layered on top is now exposed.
AI breaks the assumptions of static networking.
Agents don’t wait. They self-organize.
And they don’t forgive latency, failure, or blind spots.
Modern systems weren’t built for this.
We are.
Cosmic Labs
Built for enterprises operating at machine speed.
Not just a faster network. A smarter one.