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Firecrawl raises $14.5M—and keeps hiring AI agents
Plus: a huge collection of practical agent apps, another AWS agent marketplace with $100k in prizes, and more
Michael Cunningham
August 21, 2025
Welcome back to Building AI Agents, your biweekly guide to everything new in the field of agentic AI!
excited to announce that I have raised $200M at a $2B valuation from Softbank for Printalk AI, a voice LLM agent that keeps your printer working at all times
many AI insiders believe that getting a printer to consistently work is one of the best indicators of super intelligence
— brom (@therealbrom)
4:08 PM • Aug 11, 2025
Long after superhuman AI has cured every disease and built us civilizations among the stars, it will still be on the phone with HP’s tech support trying to get a toner cartridge changed.
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In today’s issue…
Another AWS agent marketplace with $100k in prizes
Firecrawl raises $14.5 million, hiring agent “employees”
A huge collection of practical agent apps
Build a deep research agent step-by-step
2 hours of human-level research for 10 cents?
…and more
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