Agentic AI and PyTorch Foundations Add New Members

- Agentic AI is a more autonomous form of AI that can understand goals, create plans, and execute multi-step tasks with limited human input, moving beyond simple content generation. This move toward proactive, goal-driven AI is what's fueling the demand for standardization and collaborative development in these foundations. - New Agentic AI Foundation Gold member Shopify is actively developing "agentic commerce," where AI agents manage the entire shopping process for a consumer, from product discovery in a chat interface to adding items from multiple stores into a universal cart. - The Agentic AI Foundation's new members include major players in consumer finance and enterprise automation, indicating where agentic AI is expected to have a significant impact. American Express is piloting AI-assisted transactions and helping to define standards for agentic payments, while JPMorgan Chase is using agentic AI to reimagine financial workflows and aims to generate over $1.5 billion in value from its AI initiatives. - Enterprise software companies like new Agentic AI Foundation members ServiceNow and UiPath are building the tools for businesses to deploy these agents. ServiceNow has an "AI Agent Fabric" for orchestrating tasks across different systems, and UiPath is creating agents for specific industries like healthcare to automate complex administrative and financial processes. - The PyTorch Foundation's new members include companies building the foundational infrastructure for AI. Clockwork.io, one of the new members, focuses on software to accelerate AI workloads by synchronizing GPU clusters, which is critical for training and running the large models that power agentic AI. - Another new PyTorch member, Nota AI, specializes in optimizing AI models to run efficiently on edge devices, a key component for bringing agentic AI capabilities to consumer hardware like smartphones and vehicles. - The addition of top academic institutions like Carnegie Mellon University to the PyTorch Foundation brings deep research expertise. CMU, considered a birthplace of AI, has strong programs in machine learning, robotics, and natural language processing, which are all core to advancing agentic systems. - Monash University, another new academic member of the PyTorch Foundation, has research groups focused on analyzing social networks and other relational data, as well as using smartphone data for activity recognition, areas with direct applications for social and location intelligence.