Ariel Shulman, Bright Data | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: Mixture of Experts AI AGENT Conference 2026

In this interview from the AI Agent Conference, Ariel Shulman, chief product officer of Bright Data, joins theCUBE + NYSE Wired's Gemma Allen to discuss how the rise of agentic AI is transforming web data infrastructure and Bright Data's evolution from proxy provider to real-time AI data platform. Shulman traces the company's 15-year journey from supplying IP proxy pipes to collecting, unlocking and structuring publicly available web data at scale. He details Bright Data's landmark legal victories against both Meta and Twitter — outright wins that established a critical industry precedent: publicly accessible data not hidden behind a login or paywall can be collected. With the agentic era demanding speed above all, Bright Data has retooled its infrastructure to deliver scraped web pages at a median response time of 500 milliseconds, making it a viable real-time data source for AI agents and chatbots.

The conversation also explores how Bright Data's MCP integration serves as a plug-and-play access point for the growing wave of developers building agentic applications. Shulman draws a sharp distinction between static product data — attributes like dimensions and color — and highly dynamic data such as pricing and inventory availability, where stale information erodes consumer trust in AI-powered shopping experiences. He notes that many builders underestimate the complexity of web scraping at scale, likening it to quantum mechanics in reverse: what works cleanly in a small environment breaks unpredictably under production load. Bright Data's success-based billing model abstracts all that complexity away, charging only for successful data retrievals. Looking ahead, Shulman underscores a growing focus on token economics — compressing responses into minimal, structured outputs so agents can operate efficiently without unsustainable cost. From resolving landmark legal battles over public web data to engineering the infrastructure that keeps AI agents fast, accurate and cost-efficient, Shulman outlines why Bright Data is positioned as essential plumbing for the agentic enterprise.

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00:00 - Intro
00:08 - Navigating Innovations and Challenges: The Cube, AI, and Legal Dynamics with Ariel Shulman
03:23 - Leveraging Public Data and AI for Enhanced Information Management
05:50 - Empowering E-commerce: The Role of Agentic Browsers and Real-Time Data
07:57 - Navigating the Complexities of Internet Protocols and Data Acquisition
10:15 - Bright Data: Innovation, Future Prospects, and Final Reflections

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