The AI agent introduction frenzy continued at a torrid pace this week, with OpenAI launching what it called workspace agents in ChatGPT and Microsoft adding hosted agents to its Foundry Agent Service. Both launched on the same day that Google both updated its Gemini Enterprise app to provide new ways for office workers to build,…
AI models cost a lot more to develop than you may think. AI research company Epoch AI has set out all the costs of building a new AI model — and explaining why AI companies are so concerned about perceived threats to their intellectual property. It has looked into this before: Last year, it estimated…
Anthropic has started limiting usage across its Claude subscriptions to cope with rising demand that is stretching its compute capacity. “To manage growing demand for Claude we’re adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged,” Thariq Shihipar, a member of Anthropic’s technical staff, wrote in a…
The AI economy is projected to reach $17 trillion by 2028, fundamentally altering how organizations architect their infrastructure. Driven by this shift, 95% of major global enterprises are on a mission-critical sprint to become their own AI and data platforms within the next two years. Yet only 13% of enterprises have successfully found the formula. Their secret to mainstreaming…
Businesses of all sizes depend on “office” suites for their day-to-day tasks and for collaboration. AI, for its part, promises significant productivity gains for knowledge workers and for anyone who works with documents. According to studies, we spend over half our time using “office” software. And the global market for productivity applications is worth $22.5…
AI agents need skills — specific procedural knowledge — to perform tasks well, but they can’t teach themselves, a new research suggests. The authors of the research have developed a new benchmark, SkillsBench, which evaluates agentic AI performance on 84 tasks across 11 domains including healthcare, manufacturing, cybersecurity and software engineering. The researchers looked at…
