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AI agents that ask for human input and approval feel much more magical — and useful — compared to those that don't this may mean that raw intelligence is less important than effective human-in-the-loop flows in building a winning product very long on companies like HumanLayer (YC F24) that are helping folks build these types of experiences

Protegee AI (YC F24) is the payments API for AI voice agents. Voice agents are great at conversations, but payments often get messy. Companies try all sorts of hacks, such as texting a payment link later, passing the customer to a human rep, or even giving up on taking payment altogether. With a simple API, Protegee will collect the details, process transactions securely, and return the caller back to you with payment confirmation. Today marks the start of B2AI - the agent economy. And AI2AI is coming soon. Congrats on the launch, Xiaoyu Li and Kirthi Banothu! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/gDfS8TTN

Have you guys tested this in real-world scenarios? We attempted a similar integration a few months ago, adding payment and refund capabilities to our AI agents. For the chat agent, it works super well but for the call agent, there are just too many edge cases to take care of, and at times it feels like a tacky solution that can break anytime. Some issues we identified in our cohort analysis: - Users frequently mis-pressed numbers, leading to data entry problems. - Many people were uncomfortable providing credit card details over a phone call, especially to an automated system. - The system lacked intuitiveness, users struggled with putting the phone on speaker to press keys as instructed. Overall a very bad user experience and basically a degradation in user experience compared to current user interfaces. It's just adding to the interaction cost of completing the task. No matter how solid the NER models we use to protect user details from third-party LLMs and ensure compliance with regulations, we found that accountability remains a significant issue in cases of errors or fraudulent transactions.

Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of Skyfire: the payment stack for AI. Think of it like Visa for AI Agents. AI agents do not have a social security number, they cannot obtain a driver's license or passport, or open a bank account. (At least not yet.) This lack of identity or means of payment is the biggest thing slowing down the AI economy, and that’s the problem we’re solving with Skyfire. Whether you’re an #LLM wanting to accept autonomous payments, or a developer making agents that need a way to pay, Skyfire.xyz is open for business. @zeffmax wrote a great article about it today on TechCrunch: https://lnkd.in/eYbBY8ri

As generative AI capabilities become available to everyone, banks and other institutions will want to build intelligent solutions to provide revolutionary new capabilities—first with their employees and, over time, for their customers. Microsoft 365 Copilot, integrated across Microsoft 365, will provide generative AI capabilities to the entire productivity suite.     To learn what this means for the future of banking, read our blog article:

From smarter trading to seamless security, AI is rewriting fintech’s rulebook! Say hello to safer transactions and personalized finance. #FutureOfFintech #AIInFintech #BuzzyBrains #DevelopwitBuzzyBrains

Here is everything that happened in AI Agents this week 🧵 (save for later) 1/ Wordware (YC S24) announced their $30M seed round https://lnkd.in/gReT5GmH 2/ AutoGPT introduced Agent Blocks https://lnkd.in/gU9pq6RG 3/ Braelyn Boynton is building v0 for agents with AgentStack from Agency https://lnkd.in/gRFqh8Ww 4/ YC F24’s Scrapybara is building instant, secure virtual desktop environments for AI agents https://lnkd.in/gc3TzWnc 5/ Getting accurate, detailed data about leads, businesses, anything on the web is easier than before with Lutra AI https://lnkd.in/gisXuPvB 6/ Jeremiah Owyang organized the Inaugural AI Agent Congress https://lnkd.in/gwy-tMT5 7/ Lovable launched the world’s first AI Full Stack Engineer! https://lnkd.in/gpVXtxBV 8/ After raising $220M, H Company introduced an agent that can execute any task from a prompt https://lnkd.in/gD3gGbBr 9/ Lorenze Jay Hernandez shows you how to build a Multi-Agent RAG system with CrewAI, Weaviate, Groq, and Exa https://lnkd.in/gr3BrWJG 10/  Sully Omar built an inbound AI SDR with OttoGrid, when someone signs up, it instantly researches, scores, and creates a personalized message to send them https://lnkd.in/gv_pHfN8 11/ AgentOps (Agency) 0.3.18 (The Computer Use Update) is out!! Updated docs for Anthropic + upgraded support for claude computer use. https://lnkd.in/gvCA98i8 12/ Abundant (YC F24) provides an on-demand human workforce for AI Agent edge cases. When Agents need human support, Abundant's network of experts steps in to assist, while generating training data https://lnkd.in/gPhUzXV3 13/ LangChain released: Agent Protocol + Integration guides for running AutoGen, CrewAI & other agents within LangGraph workflows https://lnkd.in/gj6zQ6XT 14/ Example of a full-stack web app built purely prompting https://lnkd.in/gfTSuNrE 15/ ShowAndTell builds AI agents for dental operations. Their agents partner with treatment coordinators to deliver scalable, empathetic, and personalized interactions https://lnkd.in/g7j5zwPU 16/ Ismail Pelaseyed rolled out an agent to one of Europe’s biggest healthcare companies. Agentic RAG w/ sources over 10K policy documents https://lnkd.in/guYkrjua 17/ James Murdza made an open source version of Anthropic's computer use https://lnkd.in/g2jeBMFr 18/ A team of 10 AI agents to write a fully autonomous book https://lnkd.in/gKtCxTGY 19/ OtoCo shows how a Based AI agent autonomously decides to create an LLC in Delaware https://lnkd.in/g4XeB-At 20/ Rankai (YC Backed) is replacing marketing agencies with AI agents. Their first agent automates the entire SEO process and makes it 20x more affordable https://lnkd.in/g2xrjh_G 21/ Talor Anderson shares a rundown of his talk where he turned an AI coding agent into a designer https://lnkd.in/gf_UUmgu 22/ Did I miss anything? Share below Liked this thread? Share it with your friends/team Follow Adam Silverman (Hiring) and Agency for everything AI agent related Last weeks thread:https://lnkd.in/grwjEdGd

As generative AI capabilities become available to everyone, banks and other institutions will want to build intelligent solutions to provide revolutionary new capabilities—first with their employees and, over time, for their customers. Microsoft 365 Copilot, integrated across Microsoft 365, will provide generative AI capabilities to the entire productivity suite.     To learn what this means for the future of banking, read our blog article:

Exceptional effort, truly commendable! #AI #AIAgents #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #TechInnovation #AIUpdates #GenerativeAI #AutoGPT #LangChain #YCStartups #AIResearch #AgentStack #VirtualDesktops #FullStackAI #AIInBusiness #MultiAgentSystems #RAG #AIWorkforce #AIForHealthcare #AIInMarketing #AIInnovation #OpenSourceAI #TechNews Umar Iftikhar

Well well, this is plenty of AI Agent stuff to go through. For those who are keen to bite into this bit of revolution in the AI development, have a good read and study. You might find something that inspires you to build your first AI Agent.