Amazon Internet Companies (AWS) is launching an AI agent market subsequent week and Anthropic is certainly one of its companions, TechCrunch has completely realized.
The AWS agent market launch will happen on the AWS Summit in New York Metropolis on July 15, two individuals accustomed to the event informed TechCrunch. AWS and Anthropic didn’t reply to requests for feedback.
AI brokers are ubiquitous these days. And each single investor in Silicon Valley is bullish on startups constructing them — even when there may be some disagreement on precisely what defines an AI agent. The time period is somewhat ambiguous and is loosely used to describe computer programs that may make choices and carry out duties independently, reminiscent of interacting with software program, through the use of an AI mannequin on the backend.
AI behemoths reminiscent of OpenAI and Anthropic are promoting it as the next big thing in tech. Nevertheless, the distribution of AI brokers poses a problem, as most firms supply them in silos. AWS seems to be taking a step to deal with this with its new transfer.
The corporate’s devoted agent market will permit startups to straight supply their AI brokers to AWS prospects. {The marketplace} can even permit enterprise prospects to browse, set up, and search for AI brokers primarily based on their necessities from a single location, a supply mentioned.
That would give Anthropic — and different AWS agent market companions — a substantial increase.
Anthropic, which already has Amazon’s backing and is reportedly in line for another multibillion-dollar investment from the e-commerce firm, views AI’s future primarily in terms of agents — not less than for the approaching years. Anthropic builds AI brokers in-house and enables developers to create them using its API.
AWS’ market would assist Anthropic attain extra prospects, together with those that might already use AI brokers from its rivals, reminiscent of OpenAI. Anthropic’s involvement within the market may additionally appeal to extra builders to make use of its API to create extra brokers, and finally improve its revenues. The corporate already hit $3 billion in annualized revenue in late Could.
Like every other on-line market, AWS will take a minimize of the income that startups earn from agent installations. Nevertheless, this share will probably be minimal in comparison with {the marketplace}’s potential to unlock new income streams and appeal to prospects.
{The marketplace} mannequin will permit startups to cost prospects for brokers. The construction is much like how a market would possibly value SaaS choices slightly than bundling them into broader providers, one of many sources mentioned.
Amazon will not be the primary tech large to supply a market for brokers. In April, Google Cloud launched an AI Agent Marketplace to assist builders and companies record, purchase, and promote AI brokers. Microsoft additionally launched the same providing, known as Agent Store, inside Microsoft 365 Copilot a month later. Equally, enterprise software program suppliers, together with Salesforce and ServiceNow have their very own agent marketplaces.
That mentioned, we have now but to see how profitable these marketplaces are for smaller AI startups and enterprises in search of particular AI brokers.