#18: CEO of Microsoft predicted collapse to all SaaS

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"The application layer is collapsing into agents."

Satya Nadella, SEO, Microsoft

Here's what this means:

  • Current SaaS --> backend databases.

  • Workflows --> agent orchestration layers.

  • Employees --> agent managers.

Microsoft Build 2025: Embracing the Agentic Web

  • Azure SRE Agent: A new agent integrated into GitHub Copilot, transforming it from a coding assistant to a task-performing peer.

  • Agent Store for MS Copilot: A marketplace for discovering and deploying AI agents within Microsoft Copilot.

  • Copilot Tuning: Allows businesses to customize AI agents using their own data, enabling domain-specific tasks.

  • NLWEB Protocol: An initiative to build an open-agentic web protocol, facilitating natural language interactions on the web.

  • Entra Agent ID: Introduces a new identity system for AI agents, enhancing security and management.

  • Magentic UI: An open-source experimental web agent interface, promoting community-driven development.

  • Windows 11 & VS Code Updates: Windows 11 now natively supports MCP, and VS Code is officially an open-source AI code editor.

Google I/O 2025: Major AI Agent Announcements

  • Project Astra: A real-time multimodal assistant now available to select users.

  • Project Mariner: An AI agent that autonomously browses and interacts with websites on behalf of users.

  • Jules: An asynchronous coding agent designed to assist developers.

  • Agentic Checkout: Enables users to shop and complete purchases directly within Google Search, streamlining the e-commerce experience.

  • Gemini 2.5 Models: Introduction of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, enhancing AI capabilities.

  • Flow: A creative direction tool that utilizes Gemini, Imagen, and Veo models to assist in content creation

Enterprise & Developer Tools

  • Glean AI: Expanded its Horizontal Agents Platform, introducing open agent interoperability, dozens of personal and business agents, and comprehensive AI security. (Source)

  • Shopify: Launched new AI tools, including an AI-powered store builder, enabling merchants to create websites from scratch with a single prompt. (Source)

  • OpenAI: Updated its Responses API with support for remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, image generation, code interpretation, and improved file search capabilities. (Source)

Anthropic: Claude 4 Model Releases

  • Claude Opus 4: A hybrid-reasoning AI model optimized for coding and complex problem-solving, capable of autonomous operation for up to seven hours.

  • Claude Sonnet 4: A cost-effective model designed for general tasks, offering enhanced coding, reasoning, and precision.

  • Availability: Both models are accessible via the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.

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