Project: kaya • Created: 5/29/2025
a16z on agentic payments: The next fintech rails will be built for AI-to-AI commerce
Andreessen Horowitz outlines nine developer patterns redefining software with AI agents as foundation
What is an agent? a16z unpacks the technical, philosophical, and market confusion
Sequoia Capital foresees AI market 10x larger than cloud computing with rise of agent economy
April AI funding snapshot: Infra dominance continues, while deep tech and vertical agent tools gain traction
Persona raises $200m to build verified identity layer for an agentic AI world
Why structured reasoning might be a key design pattern in future agent architectures? Hugging Face research shows how structured code agents double AI action success rates by eliminating parsing errors
Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8B to accelerate agent deployment at scale
Microsoft launches AI agent factory as usage doubles and enterprise adoption scales
a16z Backs LMArena and sees reliability & scalability as core to agentic AI infrastructure
Traceloop raises $6.1M to provide observability tools preventing rogue AI agents in production
LangChain's Harrison Chase introduces ambient agents that scale AI by acting on event streams with human-in-the-loop oversight
Mistral AI launches Agents API enabling autonomous, multi-agent AI workflows with MCP support
IBM launches open-source Agent Communication Protocol to enable AI agents’ peer-to-peer collaboration
Anthropic API adds code execution, MCP connector, Files API, and 1-hour prompt caching to enhance AI agent capabilities
MCP, ACP, and Agent2Agent protocols enable standardized, scalable AI integration and reduce vendor lock-in
Jozu raises $4M seed round to scale enterprise AI orchestration platform with security and compliance focus
Hammerspace raises $100M to optimize global data orchestration for AI and HPC workloads
LangChain's Interrupt 2025 highlights 70M downloads and launches LangGraph for agent orchestration
Enterprise AI agent ecosystems and open standards: Microsoft’s vision for the future of business software - insights from Charles Lamanna’s interview with VC fund Madrona
wordware (YC S24) CEO warns that agentic tools with guardrails, not just LLMs, are key to safe enterprise AI at scale
Bessemer sees AI Systems of Action as the catalyst to break incumbent strongholds in $400B enterprise software markets
Salesforce acquires Convergence.ai to enhance Agentforce with adaptive AI agents and open London R&D center
ServiceNow launches AI Control Tower to centrally govern and optimize enterprise AI agents and workflows
ElevenLabs rolls out Conversational AI 2.0 and expands voice agent infrastructure across modalities
Y Combinator backs Caucus to automate government workflows with AI agents and MCP integrations
E2B is powering Groq and ManusAI’s autonomous agents