A contribution by Fabian Westerheide. He is a founding partner of the AI-focused venture capital investor AI.FUND and has been investing privately in AI companies since 2014. Westerheide advises public and private institutions strategically in the field of AI and invites you to the AI conference Rise of AI in Berlin every year.
And suddenly everyone is talking about agents: AI who can do things automatically or autonomously is the new hype topic of the tech scene. Almost futuristically, the makers promise that their AI systems could soon take over a AI almost all tasks that a person can also perform on the computer. The hype is currently led by Manus. The latest AI model from the Chinese startup Monica is experiencing enormous demand. Invitation codes have been resold since the start a few days ago for a few thousand euros.
The high demand and positive response from experts even lets some speak of a second deepseek moment. As remembering us: The Ki Startup Deepseek, which also comes from China, is considered particularly efficient and cheap and caught up with your system with your system. The stock exchange reacted and dropped the courses of American tech sizes such as Nvidia.
Why are we experiencing this boom right now? AI agents are not a new idea, but they now achieve technological maturity that enables their broad use. While AI-based automation was mostly regularly-based, modern AI agents Large Language Models (LLMS), real-time analyzes and even learning algorithms combine.
Source: https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/technologie/hype-um-ki-agenten-wie-manus-was-koennen-sie-und-braucht-ihr-das/
