[AI Agent News] Jan 5 - Jan 10 2025
A collection of news and announcements from the AI Agent world over the past week: NVIDIA, Cohere, Harvard Business Review
NVIDIA dominated the news this week with CEO Jensen Huang’s CES keynote making quite an impression. From an AI Agent perspective the most interesting news were about the release of the the Llama Nemotron family of large language models (LLMs), designed to power agent-specific workloads. As the research roundup I did earlier in the week showed LLMs struggle with planning so optimised LLMs like these are needed here.
Cohere, in a decidedly lower key, announced an early access program for Cohere North. A direct competitor to Google Vertex and Microsoft Copilot it’s aimed at enterprises, providing no-code tools for created AI Agents that integrate with an organisation’s tools and data.
A great piece from the Harvard Business Review challenges one of the long-held assumptions that AI needs to look and behave as human as possible. The research they report on finds that things may be more nuanced - while some level of anthropomorphising can bring benefits a more meaningful impact came from clearly highlighting the human input in the development of the AI.
“making your AI tools look human or dehumanizing them altogether are not the best ways to win over your users. Instead, show them the human effort and expertise that go into their development and design. The path forward is highlighting the humans in AI rather than humanizing AI. “ HBR
Finally, right here at AgentsDecoded we published two pieces, in case you missed them: