The Race For AI Agents. Who Will Supply Tomorrow’s Workforce?
In 2025, we’ll see more AI agents entering the workforce, transforming workflows by simplifying, enhancing, and automating tasks across industries.
Soon, there will be job websites with posts that only AI agents can apply for. 2025 will be the year AI colleagues enter our lives. But which company will provide these AI workers? To find out, let’s look at what companies need: access to users and access to business data. Which company will supply these AI colleagues?
Let’s break down what companies need to become the main supplier of AI agents: access to users and access to enterprise data.
Microsoft’s Pole Position — Access To Users
Who offers all our workforce tools? Microsoft. Microsoft. Microsoft. It is in pole position for access to users. Most people already use Microsoft products — whether they like it or not — and AI is becoming deeply integrated into these tools, with Copilots appearing everywhere.
This market access is a big advantage. In 2023 and 2024, many startups launched impressive AI services, only to be quickly overshadowed by giants like Microsoft and Google, which have direct access to customers. Take, for example, Jasper.ai, a once-celebrated AI tool for writing text. As I pointed out in a LinkedIn post, similar features are now built directly into Google and Microsoft products, making it increasingly difficult for smaller players to compete.
OpenAI’s Desktop APP
This fate might also await OpenAI if they do not create their own tool or hook soon. The new desktop app might be that kind of hook. This app can now read code directly from developer-focused tools like VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2. This means developers and writers no longer need to copy and paste their code into ChatGPT — a common hassle for many of us. It’s a really useful tool.
More on who is going to supply the AI Agents on Forbes
Microsoft AI Tour Keynote Session By CEO Satya Nadella | Bengaluru, India
Satya Nadella’s keynote, live from Microsoft AI Tour, Bengaluru as he demonstrates how to leverage AI with Microsoft solutions to power your AI journey. Learn about the latest from Microsoft in AI innovation and how it's transforming the future.
VC Firm Flybridge Unveils An AI-Powered Investment Memo Generator
When Chip Hazard, a longtime startup investor at Flybridge, finds a startup he wants to fund, he writes a multi-page investment memo for his partners, outlining in detail all the risk factors and opportunities of a business. Now, he's using AI to help write these documents and saving hours of work.
It's the latest example of how venture firms are eating their own dog food. Investors aren't only funding startups exploring the application of large language models and "agents." They're also experimenting with these tools internally to improve how they source deals, research companies before investing, and track performance.
"If we could free up capacity on more routine tasks and therefore give us more time for judgment," said Hazard, "that's a good trade in our business." This week, Flybridge is unveiling the AI-powered memo generator to the public — free for anyone to use.
More about Flybridge’s AI-powered investment memo generator
NVIDIA AI Building Blocks For Agentic AI
The transformative applications of agentic AI are vast, limited only by creativity and expertise. From simple tasks like generating and personalizing content to more complex use cases such as orchestrating enterprise software, AI agents are redefining industries.
NVIDIA’s agentic AI building blocks—including NVIDIA NIM™ pre-trained models, NVIDIA NeMo™, and NVIDIA AI Blueprints—empower organizations to develop context-aware AI agents fueled by their own data, and then deploy them anywhere.
In this video, we demonstrate the power of NVIDIA for building agentic AI applications such as research assistant AI agents for interactive learning, security AI agents for analyzing software security vulnerabilities and exposures, virtual lab AI agents for helping researchers find drug candidates faster, and video analytics AI agents for analyzing video.
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The Confluence Of Two Empires: Microsoft And OpenAI Hold Hands
Two of the biggest players in AI and tech are joining forces. If 2025 ends up being a close study in AI development, it’s probably helpful to know who the biggest players are. And it seems like if we go back and analyze the dramatic rise of personal computing through the last half of the 20th century, there’s a through line in which companies are most influential in developing new consumer and enterprise technologies.
This may be the biggest example — a growing alliance between the Microsoft empire of Bill Gates and the OpenAI juggernaut headed by Sam Altman. It’s a set of deals that has dimension and a lot of impact on our world.
These two men are of different generations (Gates is 69, Altman 39), and their companies presided over different revolutions. But Microsoft and OpenAI are coming together to offer some of the most relevant new services and capabilities to the market.
Money in the Deal
First, Microsoft is giving a lot of money to open AI. Coverage from GeekWire puts this number at around $13 billion, citing quarterly filing documents. Writer Todd Bishop shows how some of that may lead to losses for the blue-chip maker of the Windows operating system that dominated personal computing for decades.
However, Microsoft people are sanguine: “Our partnership with OpenAI also continues to deliver results,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said during an earnings call in October. “We have an economic interest in a company that has grown significantly in value.”
More on the Microsoft and OpenAI partnership on Forbes
Responsible AI: A Guide to AI Governance
Join the movement towards Responsible AI and learn how to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence while minimizing risks and ensuring AI ethics.
Phaedra Boinodiris shares her expertise on creating a culture of responsible AI and provides actionable tips for implementing AI governance best practices.
Gain a deeper understanding of responsible AI and how to implement it in your organization to drive business success.
AMD Invests In Drug-Discovery Company Absci In Push To Sell AI Chips
The $20 million deal gives the chip supplier a toehold in the life-sciences market, a strategy it plans to replicate in other industries.
Advanced Micro Devices is investing $20 million in Absci, a drug-discovery company based in Washington state, in a move aimed at selling its artificial intelligence chips in the healthcare sector. The deal is structured as a private investment in a public equity and includes an equity stake in Absci. AMD didn’t disclose the amount of its stake.
AMD, which is based in Santa Clara, Calif., said the investment and partnership between the two companies will help reduce hardware costs and optimize AI solutions for Absci.
The move is AMD’s first attempt to gain footing in life sciences with its AI chips, a space also targeted by its rival Nvidia. In 2023, Nvidia invested $50 million to boost Recursion Pharmaceuticals’ AI-based drug-discovery efforts and provided the underlying hardware for that work.
Mark Papermaster, AMD’s chief technology officer, said its relationship with Absci is the first of many efforts to make its graphics processing units, or GPUs, available to certain industries.
More on AMD’s market strategy and investment in Absci on WSJ
Artificial Intelligence Predictions That Will Completely Change Life In 2025
What will AI look like in 2025 and how will it change our daily lives? Matt Wolfe and Nathan Lands dive deep into AI's future with perspectives on emerging models and innovations.
In this episode, Nathan and Matt explore the vast potential of AI models like OpenAI's upcoming o3, the future advancements expected by 2025, and the significant societal implications of these powerful technologies.
They discuss potential impacts on the job market, daily life, and how AI-driven tools might handle routine tasks, freeing up human creativity for more complex endeavors.
Thats all for today, however new advancements, investments, and partnerships are happening as you read this. AI is moving fast, subscribe today to stay informed.