Echelon’s AI agents take aim at Accenture and Deloitte consulting models

Echelon, an artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise software implementations, emerged from stealth mode today with $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, targeting a fundamental shift in how companies deploy and maintain critical business systems. The San Francisco-based company has developed AI agents specifically trained to handle end-to-end ServiceNow implementations — …

New memory framework builds AI agents that can handle the real world’s unpredictability

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google Cloud AI Research have developed a framework that enables large language model (LLM) agents to organize their experiences into a memory bank, helping them get better at complex tasks over time. The framework, called ReasoningBank, distills “generalizable reasoning strategies” from an agent’s successful and failed attempts …

OpenAI Dev Day 2025: ChatGPT becomes the new app store — and hardware is coming

In a packed hall at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, against a backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a bold vision to remake the digital world. The company that brought generative AI to the mainstream with a simple chatbot is now building the foundations for its next act: …

OpenAI unveils AgentKit that lets developers drag and drop to build AI agents

OpenAI launched an agent builder that the company hopes will eliminate fragmented tools and make it easier for enterprises to utilize OpenAI’s system to create agents. AgentKit, announced during OpenAI’s DevDay in San Francisco, enables developers and enterprises to build agents and add chat capabilities in one place, potentially competing with platforms like Zapier. By …