2025 is becoming the year of Agentic AI. There were three big announcements in this field over the last couple of days.

On March 5th, Microsoft rolled out its Agentic AI tools for sales agents. Microsoft has been all in on agents with a very ambitious mission for it Copilot branded AI tools: “empower every employee with a Copilot and transform every business process with agents”. This embodies the promise of AI agents and it is the reason why companies are investing heavily in the agent space. The delta in capabilities between the various top LLM model is fast reducing and the base model itself might very well become a commodity. In such scenarios, the differentiator in products will be in how well they provide support for agentic AI. With this latest announcement Microsoft is clearing pushing the value of agentic AI in the sales domain. Copilot is positioned as improving the efficiency of the sales cycle by having agents identify qualified leads and also preparing sales plans.

Amazon (AWS) announced that they have now created a new organization focused on improving AI Agents. Amazon reiterated many of the promises of AI Agents in their announcement and is positioning this new move as setting up its business to help its AWS customers easily leverage AI agents in their applications.

The final announcement that I want to cover from yesterday was the news that the US Department of Defense (DoD) had signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Scale AI to provide Agentic AI capabilities. This deal is part of the DoD’s “Thunderforge” program that aims to use AI for military planning and operations. As of now, the announcement only talks about use cases that involve modeling, simulations and decision making support. The announcement also stressed the involvement of humans in the loop. Some observers have cynically termed this use case as “Agents for war” and that it is only a matter of time before AI Agents are used in combat use cases. That is perhaps the big reason why AI competitiveness between countries is heating up.

We saw three very diverse application announcements on one day. The AI agents space will continue to advance this year. It is certainly exciting times in this space.