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Anything AI Wants To Stock Your Business With Virtual Employees
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Vibe-coding startup Anything AI, founded by two former Google product leads, is rolling out a new tool that allows businesses and their employees to build AI agents that act as role-designated colleagues.
The Big Picture: AI agents are popping up in nearly every workplace. A McKinsey report last year found that 62% of businesses are experimenting with them, especially as they look to optimize their operations (read: cut down on employee headcount). It’s no wonder the AI agent market is expected to jump from $10.9 billion to $182.9 billion by 2033.
Between The Cubicles: Anything AI, which already has a $100 million valuation, is moving from generating apps to generating assistants, per Fast Company.
Its new product, Skydive, lets users create unique AI “teammates” from a custom prompt or by choosing from “four agent templates.”
These AI teammates are then added to Slack, given emails and phone numbers, and set up with web accounts. They can, of course, work around the clock.
These agents can do things like draft emails, manage the office, take lunch orders, brainstorm ideas, run engineering operations, or search for bugs in code.
Here’s the funny part: Anything AI has given these teammates “colorful, animated faces that almost resemble The Muppets. They don’t have mouths or noses — just eyes.” But they do have human names.
Clock Out: Anything AI already has 150 agents working internally at the company. While this has allegedly upped productivity and made it possible to automate several core functions, it hasn’t been without issues. Co-founder Dhruv Amin said the agents can be “a little bit overeager to please,” sending things to clients before they’re ready. So, they still take some management.
With these teammates essentially replacing entry-level jobs, it’s no wonder that young people are anxious about their job prospects. The bar is officially rising for human employment.
The Future: Expect every employee to become a quasi-manager, creating AI agents they can delegate work to.
Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Polled and Copy-edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.