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Comments from CEO of Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Y Combinator and others on AI agents

Comments from CEO of Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Y Combinator and others on AI agents

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John Robert
January 10, 2025

Today on “Dont Fear AI”
I am taking a slight detour from our usual news roundup, and I couldn't be more excited to share why.

Over the past few weeks, I've been absolutely fascinated by a topic that keeps coming up in every corner of the tech world: AI agents. These aren't just another buzzword – they're autonomous systems that could fundamentally change how we work, create, and solve problems. Think of them as digital assistants on steroids, capable of making decisions and handling complex tasks with remarkable independence.

This is the first in a planned series of posts where I’ll break down key concepts in AI to help you understand how they’ll shape our future. Let's hear what the leaders are saying:

The IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future

CEO of Nvidia - Jensen Huang(Keynote at CES 2025)

We believe that, in 2025, we may see the first AI agents “join the workforce” and materially change the output of companies

CEO of OpenAI - Sam Altman(from Sam Altman blog “Reflection” )

SaaS has grown 10x per decade for a few decades now. This is the next 10x: vertical AI agents.

CEO of Y Combinator - Garry Tan( Why vertical AI agents could be 10X bigger than SaaS)

The potential market of AI agents is not in the billions of dollars, but the trillions

CEO of Salesforce - Marc Benioff(Saleforce Agentforce conference)

AI agents will revolutionise SaaS by automating business processes, creating a tier of multi-agent orchestration

CEO of Microsoft - Satya Nadella (Interview with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner)

Superintelligence systems are going to be agentic in real ways.

Co-founder of OpenAI - IIya Sutskever (Talk at NeurIPS 2024)

In an AI agent, AI is the brain that processes the task, plans a sequence of actions to achieve this task, and determines whether the task has been accomplished.

Chip Huyen - Chip blog on AI Agent

AI is rapidly evolving, and one of the most exciting developments is the emergence of AI agents

Head of Chrome Developer Experience - Addy Osmani (AI Assisted Developer Workflow)

These insights hint at the transformative power of AI agents across industries. From automating processes to scaling businesses, the possibilities seem endless.

Stay tuned for the next post in this series, where I’ll explore how you can prepare for a world shaped by AI agents.