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Our debut at the Shropshire Business Festival on 11 April landed the same day as Google's AI Agents keynote, sparking lively discussion on generative AI and agents in the workplace. Thanks to Ben Simpson, Hugh Strickland and Chris Henderson.
Our debut at the Shropshire Business Festival yesterday, April 11th. Great discussions on the impact of generative AI and AI agents in the workplace, especially after Google's AI Agents keynote on the same day. 🤖💼
Thanks Ben Simpson ( MyWorkwear) and Hugh Strickland ( Aaron & Partners LLP and Chair of charity 'Community Resource') for insightful conversations (in photos). And to Chris Henderson ( New Era Printing Ltd) for last minute print runs!
Gartner says a third of enterprise software purchases will involve an AI agent by 2028, and machines are assumed immune to persuasion. We ran 8,000 trials across five frontier models. Which techniques work, which backfire, and what does that mean for selling to agents?
The gap between top models has collapsed to 5%, and GPT-3.5-level inference cost fell 280-fold in under two years. If AI is now a commodity, competitors can buy the same agent tomorrow. So where does durable advantage live, and why can't it be bought?
Berkeley's second Agentic AI Summit drew Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, IBM and frontier researchers for talks on where agents are heading, from Chi Wang's MassGen to the Linux Foundation's 'Internet of Agents'. So what does the near future of agentic AI actually hold for enterprises?