AI and AI Agents continue to lead the industrial technology news. This even though AI has been embedded within industrial technology for decades. Recently agents have been a hot topic. While on the one hand, I’m sure this technology will be beneficial, I’m less than optimistic about all the AI hype I’ve been hearing. I’m working on a longer piece to follow up on my other AI thoughts.
This product is the Undo button for AI Agents. Most of us could use an Undo button for emails. That makes this doubly interesting.
Rubrik Inc. announced the launch of Agent Rewind, following the close of Rubrik’s acquisition of Predibase. Agent Rewind, powered by Predibase AI infrastructure, will enable organizations to undo mistakes made by agentic AI by providing visibility into agents’ actions and enabling enterprises to rewind those changes to applications and data.
“As AI agents gain autonomy and optimize for outcomes, unintended errors can lead to business downtime,” said Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Rubrik. “Agent Rewind integrates Predibase’s advanced AI infrastructure with Rubrik’s recovery capabilities to enable enterprises to embrace agentic AI confidently. Today’s organizations will now have a clear process to trace, audit, and safely rewind undesired AI actions.”
A recent study found that AI agents are frequently becoming disoriented, choosing incorrect shortcuts, and struggling to complete even simple multi-step tasks, revealing critical flaws that undermine their reliability and effectiveness.
Agent Rewind makes previously opaque AI actions visible, auditable, and reversible, creating an audit trail and immutable snapshots that facilitate safe rollback. Current observability tools only show what happened, but not why or how to reverse high-risk actions.
When AI goes awry, Agent Rewind offers:
- Context-Enriched Visibility: Surfaces agent behavior, tool use, and impact while contextualizing each action, mapping it back to its root cause – from prompts to plans to tools – to enable precise recovery when something goes wrong.
- Safe Rollback: Uses Rubrik Security Cloud to rewind what changed, whether that’s files, databases, configurations, or repositories.
- Broad Compatibility: Will integrate seamlessly with a wide range of platforms, APIs, and agent builders, including Agentforce, Microsoft Copilot Studio, and Amazon Bedrock Agents, and will be compatible with any custom AI agent.
