#19: 🚨 AI Agents Just Got Serious: $8B Buyouts, Dev Droids & 1400+ Tools You Can Try

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Oliver Parker
May 29, 2025

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📢 TOP News

Similarweb launches AI Agents suit, including SEO Strategy Agent, Trend Analyzer, Meeting Prep Agent, and Outreach Agent, all powered by proprietary data covering 100 million websites and 20 million companies. (Source)

Mistral AI Unveils Agents API, a toolkit based on its Medium 3 model that lets organizations build custom AI agents to automate business processes (e.g. web search, code execution, document processing). The API includes pre-built connectors for common tasks and supports multi-agent workflows via standard protocols. (Source)

AWS announced a new Application Modernization Service (AWS Transform), now generally available, which uses specialized AI agents to automatically refactor and migrate legacy infrastructure and code (e.g. VMware, mainframe, Java workloads) into modern cloud environments, achieving up to 80× faster migrations (Source)

Salesforce acquired Informatica for AI agents in an $8 billion deal specifically to enhance the agentic AI features of its CRM platform, highlighting the growing importance of AI agents in enterprise software. (Source)

Discuss launched “Discuss Now”, a self-paced AI market-research solution comprised of multiple AI agents that autonomously recruit survey participants, conduct multimedia interviews, and synthesize insights. According to the company, the platform “automates every stage” of customer feedback collection and analysis, delivering insights in hours instead of weeks (Source)

FactoryAI released "Droids," billed as the world's first software development agents that can handle the entire development lifecycle, from building production-ready features from specifications to triaging alerts and troubleshooting incidents.

Flowith introduced NEO, A supercharged AI creation workspace, with all your knowledge.

ManuaAI introduced Manus Slides to create stunning presentations tailored to your need and deep research.

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🚀 NEW AI Agents

  • Den: AI-powered workspace where humans and agents collaborate

  • Skywork: Turn simple input into multimodal content

  • HeroUI: Build beautiful React frontends from prompts or screenshots

  • EnjoAI: Powering AI Support Agents.

🚀 TOP Funding

  • MarvelX Raises €5.3M for Insurance AI Agents. The startup’s agents focus on automating operations like claims management and compliance, aiming to handle up to 90% of routine insurance tasks and streamline back-office workflows (Source)

  • Bito Raises $5.7M to advance its flagship “AI Code Review Agent,” which integrates with platforms like GitHub and GitLab to automatically review code, flag issues, and suggest (or implement) fixes as an AI-driven development assistant. (Source)

  • Frinks AI Secures $5.4M to Automate Retail Operations, including inventory management and sales forecasting. (Source)

  • Contineu, a deeptech startup, secured $1.2 million to develop AI agents aimed at automating data entry processes on construction sites, improving operational efficiency. (Source)

  • Reco, specializing in AI-driven cybersecurity, obtained $25 million to advance its AI agents that monitor and secure SaaS applications, addressing the growing need for enterprise-level AI security solutions. (Source)

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