Sui development team establishes AI business unit, former CEO to transition to CTO and oversee AI operations.

BlockBeats news, October 17: Sui development team Mysten Labs CEO Evan Cheng announced in a post that the company will officially establish an AI business unit focused on agent trust products and native AI infrastructure development. At the same time, Mysten Labs President Kevin Boon will take over as CEO, while Evan Cheng will transition to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and lead the AI business unit.

Evan Cheng stated that as AI agents begin to autonomously execute tasks such as transactions, payments, negotiations, and code development, how to ensure agents act within authorized scope, avoid unintended harm, and resolve responsibility attribution issues among different participants is becoming a key challenge for industry development. Mysten Labs plans to build related products based on Sui and Walrus to help individuals and enterprises constrain agent behavior and support agents in safely executing tasks without the need for real-time human intervention.

In addition, Mysten Labs recently announced a partnership with Google Cloud to develop a Verifiable Agent Arbiter (VAA), providing an evidence layer for enterprise AI agents and helping resolve disputes in cross-organizational collaboration through tamper-proof records. Evan Cheng believes that AI agent-driven commercial activity has enormous potential, but trust mechanisms and incentive coordination issues remain the main obstacles to its scalable development.