Genspark’s Super Agent ups the ante in the general AI agent race

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The general-purpose AI agent landscape is suddenly much more crowded and ambitious. This week, Palo Alto-based startup Genspark released what it calls Super Agent, a fast-moving autonomous system designed to handle real-world tasks across a wide range of domains – including some that raise eyebrows, like making phone calls to restaurants using a realistic synthetic voice. The launch adds fuel to what’s shaping up to be an important new front in the AI competition: Who will build the first reliable, flexible and truly useful general-purpose agent? Perhaps more urgently, what does that mean for enterprises? Genspark’s launch comes just three weeks after a different Chinese-founded startup, Manus, gained attention for its ability to coordinate tools and data sources to complete asynchronous cloud tasks like travel booking, resume screening and stock analysis – ... Read full article.