We’re seeing a strong wave of AI agent applications increasingly capable of taking on and automating complex workflows. A lot of what is driving this is taking place in the model layer - with frontier models better able to plan and reason. As Sam Altman has outlined, the emergence of better reasoning capabilities in models such as OpenAI o1 provides the foundation for potentially quick advancement to highly capable AI agents that can understand context, plan and reason in order to make decisions, and then take actions in order to achieve goals.
However, improved models alone will not deliver us advanced and autonomous agents, and, as of today, most models remain poor planners and low-level reasoners. This means that most AI agents are still susceptible to errors that become compounded across multi-step processes, meaning they are unable to reliably take on complex end-to-end tasks. As a result, an ecosystem of enabling software and new architec