[AI Agent News] Dec 28 2024 - Jan 4 2025
A collection of news and announcements from the AI Agent world over the past week: Meta, Anthropic, HuggingFace and how Everyone is so excited about agents in 2025.
Meta Kills of AI Generated Instagram Profiles (but will bring them back they are just “fixing a bug”) - Meta managed to get itself in an interesting spot when an executive announced that Meta was planning to populate its social networks with AI profiles that people could interact with. Turns out Meta had already started the experiment in 2023. People found those old profiles - and they were terrible. Result - those profiles have now been closed down, but Meta will be back.
Anthropic released a guide to effective agents that outlines some useful patterns. Check out my somewhat critical analysis of the guide here.
HuggingFace released yet another agent framework - the unique selling point of this one is simplicity. Appropriately called smolagents, it brings an interesting perspective. Watch out for my more in-depth review next week.
Everyone is starting 2025 with a big bang about how agents will be the next big thing. I suggest focussing on helping customers reliably solve actual problems with the right technology and lets see where we get to 🙂