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MIT released a list of top AI agents and their functionalities.
The largest portion focuses on enterprise workflows.
Research and information synthesis is the top use case.
Which autonomous or semi-autonomous agents are making the greatest impact on the world -- and potentially your job -- these days? Certain agents are hogging all the headlines lately, but there are a number of function-specific agents available to developers and users.
MIT's CSAIL -- the university lab dedicated to AI research -- set out to identify and document the background and capabilities of these agents, with its findings detailed in its latest AI Agent Index. The researchers conducted an ecosystem-wide analysis of state-of-the-art AI agents across 1,350 data points.
Also: AI agents are fast, loose, and out of control, MIT study finds
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