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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

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Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. Kumar adds. Start with one [AI model], and you can start tailoring its behavior.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors. But the entire process will need to be reinvented in order to make full use of the technology, says Monteiro. Take for example that task of keeping up with regulations.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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Perl was previously the head of technology at home service booking platform Dispatch and the CTO of pharmacy supply chain firm Zipdrug. Perl notes that tests are written in Playwright , an open source testing package, allowing them to be migrated to other platforms if customers so wish. ” QA Wolf promises a lot. .

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Open Source Business Model

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However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

Slightly larger companies like Uber, Netflix, and Airbnb have a history of teams leaving to commercialize internal tools (often through the intermediate step of open sourcing it). I spent six years as a CTO and moving from one cloud to another isn't something I even remotely considered. I'm not so sure?

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

I should say that I initially spoke with WaveOne’s cofounders, CEO Lubomir Bourdev and CTO Oren Rippel, from a position of significant skepticism despite their impressive backgrounds. So smaller options, even superior ones that are free and open source, tend to get ground beneath the wheels of the industry-spanning standards.

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What CIOs need to become better enablers of sustainability

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So the CIO, the technologies they deploy, and the partnerships they form are essential to the future of a more environmentally sustainable way of doing business. Like anything, the hard work is the initial assessment,” says CGI director of business consulting and CIO advisor Sean Sadler.