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The new agents marketplace will launch in beta next month.
The companies will also launch an educational hub for IT clients.
Developers could win a chunk of $100,000 for building agents.
As is often the case with hyped-up new technologies, interest in AI agents among business leaders is soaring -- some CFOs report committing 25% of their AI budgets to them. However, practical understanding of how to implement and use them effectively remains somewhat fuzzy. A new AI agent marketplace intends to fix that.
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Software company SuperOps and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to create an agent marketplace as a guide for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT firms. Arriving in beta next month, it will let MSPs and IT professionals shop a selection of agents to find those that match their particular needs. Developers can also access the marketplace to sell their agents.
AWS debuted a similar virtual marketplace of its own for enterprise customers last month, featuring agents from developers like Anthropic, IBM, Perplexity, and others.
"This launch marks a significant turning point for the IT industry," Arvind Parthiban, SuperOps' cofounder and CEO, said in a statement. "We're giving MSPs a way to tap into real, autonomous AI that can solve their day-to-day challenges and help them stay ahead. Partnering with AWS makes it possible to scale this across the industry and bring powerful, usable agents into the hands of teams that need them now."
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