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  • 🎙️ What to Watch this Week

  • ⚔️ Agent Arena Battleboard

  • 🏆 Agents Leaderboard

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The Latest Agentic Development

Microsoft unveiled App Builder and Workflow agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
They enable app creation and workflow automation in minutes via chat.

LangChain Launches LangSmith Agent Builder
LangChainAI released LangSmith Agent Builder in private preview, automating planning and memory for rapid deployment of production-ready AI agents.

PayPal Launches Agentic Commerce Services
PayPal’s new Agent Ready and Store Sync tools let any merchant plug into AI shopping agents with zero code. Products auto-sync to Perplexity, checkouts run fraud-free in one tap, and catalogs stay 100 % merchant-owned.

Infinit Labs Debuts Agentic DeFi on BNB 
Chain Infinit Labs launched Agentic DeFi, enabling AI agents to connect 30+ protocols for automated research, strategies, and multi-protocol executions.

NVIDIA Open-Sources Agent Models 
NVIDIA announced a suite of open-source models and tools aimed at building intelligent agents across domains. Dubbed NVIDIA Nemotron (for reasoning and LLM tasks), Cosmos (physical world simulation), Isaac GR00T (robotics), and Clara (biomedical AI), these model families – released via Hugging Face – provide foundations for developers to create specialized agents, from enterprise workflow assistants to autonomous robots.

Perplexity Launches Patent Research Agent
The team behind Perplexity AI unveiled Perplexity Patents, described as the world’s first AI patent research agent. This conversational agent lets users ask natural-language questions about inventions or prior art and returns relevant patents with citations, using a specialized search index and multi-step reasoning to simplify deep patent research for everyone.

CTV ads made easy: Black Friday edition

As with any digital ad campaign, the important thing is to reach streaming audiences who will convert. Roku’s self-service Ads Manager stands ready with powerful segmentation and targeting — plus creative upscaling tools that transform existing assets into CTV-ready video ads. Bonus: we’re gifting you $5K in ad credits when you spend your first $5K on Roku Ads Manager. Just sign up and use code GET5K. Terms apply.

Featured Agents You Shouldn’t Miss

  • Mailmodo AI - Complete Email Marketing Automation With AI Agents

  • Learn Place - Personalized Learning Assistant

  • Trust Center - Sprinto AI’s Free Compliance Kit

  • TeammatesAI - Hire teammates that don’t sleep

  • Nano Banana - Prompt-based photo editing with character consistency

  • Jason - The SDR who scales infinitely

  • TheLibrarian.io - Your WhatsApp AI sidekick

  • Sara - Interviews with zero bias

  • Rashed - Sales agent who never forgets a lead

  • Raya - Customer service that runs itself

  • Agentverse - Discover and compare thousands

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What to Watch this Week

 🎙️AI on Fire: Real Builders. Real Heat.

Stories from founders building AI Agents

⚔️ AArena: The Battleground for AI

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💥 This week’s TOP 5

  1. Grok 4 Fast

  2. Grok 4

  3. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

  4. Gemma 3 4b

  5. DeepSeek R1

🏆 The Leaderboard Never Sleeps

The global ranking of AI agents is shifting every day. Who’s on top? Who just dropped?

🗺️ The Map of AI Agents (Live & Growing)

We’re charting the entire AI agent ecosystem — thousands of options across categories.
Your next agent is already on the map.

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