What are current examples of AI agents?

 There are predictions that 2025 will be the year of the AI agent. With the first quarter of the year already behind us, we might be curious about recent announcements from major companies regarding AI agents.

Below, we provide an overview of current AI agents introduced by major companies, along with YouTube videos to give a quick sense of what they do, followed by final remarks.

Adobe Orchestrator

Adobe has introduced a set of specialized agents with different responsibilities such as site optimization agent, content production agent, and workflow optimization agent etc., in their business-oriented platform (Adobe Experience Platform).

Agentforce (Salesforce)

Salesforce is a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform that helps businesses manage customer interactions, sales, marketing, and support services. Their AI agent product — Agentforce — allows to create virtual agents that are capable of doing jobs fit into configured (via easy-to-use user interface for prompt engineering and a set of predefined actions) topics and guardrails.

Claude (Anthropic)

General AI agent, while differing from Chatbot, it can navigate screens, move the cursor, click buttons, type text, and perform other actions to complete tasks on a computer.

Copilot as User Interface for Agents (Microsoft)

Copilot is an AI-powered assistant integrated into Microsoft products to help users with tasks, improve productivity, and enhance creativity. Microsoft is using the Copilot as the user interface (UI) for agents. You can use ready-made agents in Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 (as shown in the first video below), or build custom agents to help with more specific needs in Copilot Studio (as shown in the second video below). The custom agents are similar to those we can see from Agentforce.

Gemini Robotics (Google)

Google’s Gemini Robotics brings AI agent to the physical world, which can follow general (various) instructions, understand the 3D world, and react to changing environment, think and act, and interact with other agents for completing the given task.

Manus

Manus is a general AI agent that bridges minds and actions. Manus has gained a lot of attention after DeepSeek, and it claims that it excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.

Nova Act (Amazon)

Amazon’s Nova Act is a Web AI agent to execute tasks within a web browser. At the time of writing, it is available as a research preview through the Nova Act SDK.

Operator (OpenAI)

Operator is also a web-based AI agent that can perform tasks within a browser, such as grocery shopping, booking tickets, and making restaurant reservations.

Final Remarks

As we can see, AI agents are primarily developed to automate workflows and improve our productivity, with a main focus on using Web browsers, computers, and hardware such as robots.

Subscription-based B2C (Business to Customer) companies like OpenAI and Antrhopic aim to provide AI agents to tend users for automating general daily workflows. B2B (Business to Business) companies like Microsoft, on the other hand, focus on offering AI agents integrated into their ecosystems to automate business workflows for their custormers.

As the year of AI agents progresses, we can expect more and more agents to be announced by various companies. MIT maintains an AI agent index that highlights state-of-the-art agents, with a focus on those already deployed in industry, to keep track of up-to-date AI agents.

One key remaining question is whether the investment in these agents is worthwhile for end users and businesses. On Reddit, there are some communities discussing their experiences regarding these agents like Operator, and Copilot agent.

What has your experience been using these agents so far, if you have been using any of them in daily life or at the workplace?