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Tor Constantino,@Tor Constantino
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The rise of AI agents is gaining significant momentum, attracting substantial interest and creating new job opportunities across various industries. Recent publications and industry initiatives highlight the transformative potential of AI agents in automating complex tasks and optimizing existing workflows. IBM, for instance, has launched a major agentic AI initiative, introducing a suite of domain-specific AI agents that can be integrated using the watsonx Orchestrate framework, aiming to provide comprehensive observability capabilities across the entire agent lifecycle, while UiPath has launched a next-gen platform for agentic automation designed to orchestrate AI agents, robots, and humans on a single intelligent system to autonomously manage complex tasks across enterprise environments.
AI agents are evolving from simple tools into sophisticated systems capable of reasoning, adapting, and collaborating in more human-like ways. IBM is providing a range of tools that enable organizations to build their agents in minutes. Local AI agents are also gaining traction, offering customization and enhanced privacy by allowing users to run powerful, customizable AI models on their own computers. Tools like Ollama and Langflow are simplifying the process of building and deploying local AI agents, making it accessible to individuals without extensive coding expertise. Outshift by Cisco has achieved a 10x productivity boost with their Agentic AI Platform Engineer, demonstrating the potential of AI agents to significantly improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround times by automating commonly requested developer tasks.
These advancements are paving the way for a new era of intelligent automation, where AI agents can seamlessly integrate into existing business processes and augment human capabilities. The evolution of AI agents is not only transforming enterprise automation but also unlocking new possibilities for innovation and productivity across various sectors. As the demand for AI agents continues to grow, professionals with expertise in their design, deployment, and orchestration will be highly sought after, making it essential to understand the foundational concepts and advanced implementation strategies of agentic AI.
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- Tor Constantino: Mastercard and Visa debut AI agents that can research, recommend and pay for purchases — ushering in a new era of autonomous shopping and agentic commerce.
- learn.aisingapore.org: of AI agents has taken the world by storm. Agents can interact with the world around them, write articles (not this one though), take actions on your behalf, and generally make the difficult part of automating any task easy and approachable. Agents take aim at the most difficult parts of processes and churn through the...
- Upward Dynamism: AI agents are the next evolutionary step of ChatGPT & Co. Knowing how they work, their real use cases, strengths and limits is this simple.
- www.marktechpost.com: In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, leveraging specialized AI agents to handle discrete aspects of analysis is key to delivering timely, accurate insights. Agno’s lightweight, model-agnostic framework empowers developers to rapidly spin up purpose-built agents, such as our Finance Agent for structured market data and Risk Assessment Agent for volatility and sentiment analysis, without boilerplate or
- Upward Dynamism: 15-Min Guide: Local AI Agents on Your PC with Ollama & Langflow
- twimlai.com: Podcast interview with Josh Tobin discussing OpenAI's approach to building AI agents.
- Dremio: Blog post discussing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as an interoperability layer for AI agents.
- The Register - Software: AI agents promise big things. How can we support them?
- The Rundown AI: Exclusive: UiPath launches next-gen platform for 'Agentic Automation'
- Data Phoenix: FutureHouse launches platform with "superintelligent" scientific AI agents
- the-decoder.com: Bytedance launches Agent TARS, an open-source AI automation agent
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