Many companies today provide AI simply as a chatbot inside their apps: You type in (or dictate) what you want it to do, and the AI bot goes and tries to do it. Still, the experience tends to feel clunky. A text-based UI doesn’t always translate to a smooth experience; for example, if you want to use a travel app to book an entire itinerary but have to scan through reams of text.
According to the…
Google makes real-world data more accessible to AI - and training pipelines will love it
September 25, 2025
Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server – enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to access real-world statistics using natural language and better train AI…
VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?
August 21, 2025
In a Nutshell
VentureBeat’s AI Impact Series discussed deploying multi-agent AI systems with SAP and Agilent. They focus on scaling AI agents safely, integrating AI across the organization, governance frameworks, agent integration challenges, data layers importance…
Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests
July 18, 2025
Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Thursday. The financing comes just one month after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor appetite for infrastructure plays in the rapidly expanding…
AI agents are hitting a liability wall. Mixus has a plan to overcome it using human overseers on high-risk workflows
June 30, 2025
While enterprises face the challenges of deploying AI agents in critical applications, a new, more pragmatic model is emerging that puts humans back in control as a strategic safeguard against AI failure.
One such example is Mixus, a platform that uses a…
Spott has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to build an AI-native platform that promises to transform how recruitment agencies operate. The San Francisco-based startup announced the funding round today, led by Base10 Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Fortino…
Beyond single-model AI: How architectural design drives reliable multi-agent orchestration
May 26, 2025
We’re seeing AI evolve fast. It’s no longer just about building a single, super-smart model. The real power, and the exciting frontier, lies in getting multiple specialized AI agents to work together. Think of them as a team of expert colleagues, each with their own skills — one analyzes data, another interacts with customers, a third manages logistics, and so on. Getting this team to…
Microsoft just taught its AI agents to talk to each other—and it could transform how we work
May 20, 2025
Microsoft announced a significant expansion of its Copilot Studio platform at Build 2025 today, introducing multi-agent systems that allow different AI agents to collaborate on complex business tasks, along with new developer tools, security enhancements, and integration…
Former DeepSeeker and collaborators release new method for training reliable AI agents: RAGEN
April 24, 2025
2025 was, by many expert accounts, supposed to be the year of AI agents — task-specific AI implementations powered by leading large language and multimodal models (LLMs) like the kinds offered by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and DeepSeek.
But so far, most AI agents remain…
AI Agents Are Coming: Decoding Your Personality
February 17, 2025
When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was the 1980s and the agents were the four colorful ghosts in the iconic arcade game Pac-Man.
By today’s standards they weren’t particularly smart, yet they seemed to pursue me with cunning and intent. This was decades before neural networks were…
