#9: Google Cloud Next '25: Agents, Agents and more Agents ...

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April 11, 2025

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In today’s AgentPulse:

  • 📢 Top AI Agent News

  • 🚀 Trending AI Agents

  • ✨ Featured AI Agents & AI Agencies

  • 💰 AI Agent Funding

  • 🎓 Free AI Agent Courses

📰 Top AI Agent News this week 

📌 Google Cloud Next '25: An Agent-Centric Vision:

🤖 Agent Space & No-Code Agent Builders: Google’s latest innovations include a redesigned Agent Space platform and a no-code Agent Designer—tools that empower every employee to deploy tailored AI agents that automate complex workflows while ensuring strong enterprise compliance. Learn more

🔥 FREE AI Agent Builder in Firebase (Firebase Studio): Use Gemini directly within Firebase to add AI features, work with your database and it's free! Perfect for getting AI integrated quickly and cost effectively. Learn more

🔗 Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication: A new protocol allowing AI agents to talk directly. Could unlock powerful collaborative AI workflows. Learn more

🚀 Agent Development Kit (ADK). An open-source code-first Python framework to build AI agents. Learn more

🧠 Google Cloud’s Vertex AI now integrates models like Lyria (text-to-music) and enhanced versions of Veo and Chirp, enabling intelligent agents to support tasks from creative content production to advanced business analytics.

 📌 Willow CEO, Ludwig Dumont officially presented ‘Will’ AI Agent to the world. Will helps busy professionals with building a LinkedIn presence. Just send a message on WhatsApp, answer a few prompts, and Will turns it into a polished, personalized LinkedIn post—and posts on your behalf. No dashboards. No stress. Just results. Support Will’s launch on ProductHunt here

📌 Microsoft on 50th Anniversary introduced a suite of Copilot enhancements—featuring native Windows integration, Copilot Memory, and real-time visual interaction—to redefine productivity and usher in personalized, agent-driven workplace automation. Learn more

 📌 Microsoft announced $20,000 its AI Agents Hackathon 2025 (April 8 - 30, 2025), inviting developers to build next-generation agents using Azure tools like Semantic Kernel and Copilot Studio. Learn more

 📌 HubSpot introduced four AI agents—Breeze Customer, Knowledge Base, Prospecting, and Content Agents—designed to streamline customer service and marketing tasks by learning from both structured and unstructured data. Learn more

 📌 Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke implements a policy requiring teams to prove that AI cannot perform a role before hiring, integrating AI proficiency into performance reviews and sparking debate over job automation. Learn more

 📌 xAI released Grok-3 with advanced “Big Brain” reasoning and a new DeepSearch feature—pushing forward the frontier of autonomous AI agents that can generate detailed web research and handle complex tasks with improved accuracy.

📌 OpenAI introduced a significant enhancement to ChatGPT's memory capabilities. This update allows the AI assistant to retain and reference information across multiple user conversations automatically, leading to more personalized, context-aware, and relevant responses. Learn more

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🚀 Trending AI Agents this week

View Leaders:
🥇 TheLibrarian.io: WhatsApp AI Personal Assistant
🥈 SoldaAI: AI sales reps for enterprise
🥉 qode: AI agent for recruiting
4️⃣ Decagon: AI customer support agents for the enterprise
5️⃣ PlayAI: Platform for creating ultra-realistic AI voice agents.

Upvote Leaders:
🥇 TheLibrarian.io: WhatsApp AI Personal Assistant
🥈 DigitalEmployees: Digital workers for DepOps & QA
🥉 Vessium:  Platform to build agentic workflows
 
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Review Leaders:
🥇 TheLibrarian.io: WhatsApp AI Personal Assistant
🥈 DoozerAI: Digital workers
🥉 OctoComics: Comics creation

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✨ Featured AI Agents

  • Twig: Automate Tier 1 support with AI Agents

  • DoozerAI: AI-driven digital workers that transform business operations

  • TeammatesAI: Autonomous AI Teammates

  • TensorStax: Autonomous AI Agents for Data Engineering

  • TheLibrarianAI: WhatsApp AI Personal Assistant

  • Oraczen: AI Agents management platform for enterprices

  • Agentverse: Platform to create multi agents

  • SEObotAI: fully autonomous «SEO Robot» with AI agents

✨ Featured AI Agencies

  • DoozerAI: Custom AI Agent development that delivers immediate business value

  • Oraczen: Enables tailored AI agents and end-to-end Generative AI deployment

💰 NEW Interesting Fundings

Venture capital funding reached the highest level in nearly 3 years in Q1’25 as AI continues to reshape the venture ecosystem. So far in 2025, the median deal size sits at a record $3.5M.  Read more

  1. Artisan: AI Employees to automate sales and marketing tasks.

    Amount: $25M

    Round: Series A

    Lead Investor: Glade Brook

  2.  Fern : Improve Developer Experience (DX) and Agent Experience (AX)

    Amount: $9M

    Round: Series A

    Lead Investor: Bessemer Venture

  3. 8Flow: Mapping Every Enterprise Workflow For the Future of AI Work

    Amount: $10M

    Round: Series A

    Lead Investor: Caffeinated Capital

  4. Conduit: AI Agents for Real Estate

    Amount: $3.1M

    Round: Seed

    Lead Investor: Pi Labs

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