The Agentic Era of abundance

Plus: An operating system for AI agents, how to integrate your agents with over 250 programs and APIs, and more

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Michael Cunningham
November 28, 2024

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Welcome back to Building AI Agents, your biweekly guide to everything new in the AI agent field!

What do humans in the US and robots in China have in common? Neither of them are going to work today

In today’s issue…

  • Salesforce’s CEO on the coming “Agentic Era” of abundance

  • An operating system for AI agents

  • Integrate agents with over 250 pieces of software

  • A comprehensive overview of agent memory systems

…and more

đź“° NEWS

Source: /dev/agents

A group of early Android leaders have teamed up to found /dev/agents, a new startup which aims to build an entire operating system dedicated to agent development.

H, the Paris-based AI startup which raised a massive $220 million seed round last summer, revealed the fruit of its efforts—an agent for business operations called Runner H which the company claims outperforms Anthropic’s Computer Use, as well as models from OpenAI, Meta, and Google.

Anthropic released a new open-source standard, Model Context Protocol (MCP), for making data sources accessible to LLMs. The company’s Claude models support the standard, and it has released pre-built servers for Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, and more.

Popular AI-enabled IDE Cursor added a coding agent which can respond to user requests to autonomously create and modify code.

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🤝 WITH WRITER

Writer RAG tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes

  • Writer RAG Tool: build production-ready RAG apps in minutes with simple API calls.

  • Knowledge Graph integration for intelligent data retrieval and AI-powered interactions.

  • Streamlined full-stack platform eliminates complex setups for scalable, accurate AI workflows.

🛠️ USEFUL STUFF

Source: Composio

Composio has released a new tool called AgentAuth which allows users to connect their agents with over 250 popular applications, giving them control over a wide range of interfaces previously accessible only to humans.

This piece gives a roundup of a wide range of different efforts to provide memory to AI agents.

aisuite is a new system by Andrew Ng that provides a single interface for models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Google, and more, eliminating the need to write custom code for each providers’ API.

LangChain has updated the docs to LangGraph to give detailed explanations of concepts important to agent building such as memory, human-in-the-loop, multi-agent systems, and more.

đź’ˇ ANALYSIS

Source: Time

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s sunny take on the future of AI agents, which he argues will transform both our business and private lives, create new jobs, and lead to an “Agentic Era” of booming productivity.

The author of this piece describes the ways in which agents are being integrated into software development, as well as the challenges that are occurring along the way.

An overview of the corporate positions that are being impacted by the rise of agentic AI, including project management, sales, HR, and more.

🧪 RESEARCH

Source: Metr

A new paper by AI safety group Model Evaluation and Threat Research which finds that agents outperform human experts at several crucial tasks in AI research, hinting at the possibility of a self-reinforcing feedback loop of AI progress.

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