WorkBuddy Goes Global. Other Tencent Buddies Will Follow. (295)

Now, the big concept for today is obviously agents, really AI and agents.

Those things kind of blur together.

But man, agents are just a huge deal.

It's becoming the number one, two, and three thing I'm focused on.

I'm incorporating it everywhere.

It's amazing.

But...

It's not simple.

AI is powerful, but it's kind of relatively easy to integrate into a business and scale up.

Give everyone AI, they chat.

Agents are 10 times more powerful than AI.

Question and answer, that sort of thing.

Generate an image for me.

But it's much harder to deploy into an enterprise and it's tricky to scale up because as most people have discovered, the cost can get away from you very quickly.

So deploying agents into businesses, particularly e-commerce, that's kind of my number one priority now.

And if you can do that successfully, you can scale it up and it's like superpowers.

It's really amazing.

So that's kind of the general topic for today.

But the context for this is, okay, AI is moving fast.

Agents, that's kind of the next phase of this.

Robots will come later, faster than I thought they were going to come.

But the choices for agents have, you know, it's put people in a bit of a bind.

Like, do we use Claude or OpenAI? We use their agents.

They're very powerful, frontier-level business models, but they get very expensive.

especially when you start to deploy them at scale.

Now, the big concept for today is obviously agents, really AI and agents.

Those things kind of blur together.

But man, agents are just a huge deal.

It's becoming the number one, two, and three thing I'm focused on.

I'm incorporating it everywhere.

It's amazing.

But...

It's not simple.

AI is powerful, but it's kind of relatively easy to integrate into a business and scale up.

Give everyone AI, they chat.

Agents are 10 times more powerful than AI.

Question and answer, that sort of thing.

Generate an image for me.

But it's much harder to deploy into an enterprise and it's tricky to scale up because as most people have discovered, the cost can get away from you very quickly.

So deploying agents into businesses, particularly e-commerce, that's kind of my number one priority now.

And if you can do that successfully, you can scale it up and it's like superpowers.

It's really amazing.

So that's kind of the general topic for today.

But the context for this is, okay, AI is moving fast.

Agents, that's kind of the next phase of this.

Robots will come later, faster than I thought they were going to come.

But the choices for agents have, you know, it's put people in a bit of a bind.

Like, do we use Claude or OpenAI? We use their agents.

They're very powerful, frontier-level business models, but they get very expensive.

especially when you start to deploy them at scale.