Aws Launches Ai Agent Marketplace With A Hackathon And $100k In Prizes For Developers

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The caller agents marketplace will motorboat successful beta adjacent month.
• The companies will besides motorboat an acquisition hub for IT clients.
• Developers could triumph a chunk of $100,000 for building agents.

As is often nan lawsuit pinch hyped-up caller technologies, liking successful AI agents among business leaders is soaring -- immoderate CFOs study committing 25% of their AI budgets to them. However, applicable knowing of really to instrumentality and usage them efficaciously remains somewhat fuzzy. A caller AI supplier marketplace intends to hole that. 

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Software institution SuperOps and Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up to create an supplier marketplace arsenic a guideline for managed work providers (MSPs) and IT firms. Arriving successful beta adjacent month, it will fto MSPs and IT professionals shop a action of agents to find those that lucifer their peculiar needs. Developers tin besides entree nan marketplace to waste their agents.  

AWS debuted a similar virtual marketplace of its ain for endeavor customers past month, featuring agents from developers for illustration Anthropic, IBM, Perplexity, and others.

"This motorboat marks a important turning constituent for nan IT industry," Arvind Parthiban, SuperOps' cofounder and CEO, said successful a statement. "We're giving MSPs a measurement to pat into real, autonomous AI that tin lick their day-to-day challenges and thief them enactment ahead. Partnering pinch AWS makes it imaginable to standard this crossed nan manufacture and bring powerful, usable agents into nan hands of teams that request them now."

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The SuperOps-AWS business is besides launching a virtual hub wherever MSP and IT leaders tin speech ideas and study astir nan due usage of agents. The acquisition effort is well-timed: a caller study found that while nan mostly (84%) of IT organizations are actively deploying AI agents, a comparatively mini percent of them (44%) person immoderate benignant of oversight policies successful spot to show their behavior.

The companies are kicking disconnected nan motorboat of nan caller marketplace pinch a "SuperHack Hackathon" competition, challenging developers "to build autonomous agents for real-world IT usage cases," according to a property release. The winning agents will beryllium featured successful nan marketplace, and nan developers down them will beryllium awarded a cumulative magnitude of $100,000. (The property merchandise didn't specify really galore winners would beryllium selected, aliases really that magnitude would beryllium divided.) You tin study much astir nan inaugural and subordinate nan hackathon here. Registration closes connected Sept.10, and nan title will footwear disconnected Sept. 22.

AI developers are racing to deploy AI agents, and businesses, successful turn, are rushing to onboard them, driven mostly by nan committedness of large productivity boosts. 

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A caller study from McKinsey identified agents arsenic nan astir impactful burgeoning exertion that's presently reshaping nan business landscape, while Gartner has forecasted that agents could beryllium making arsenic overmuch arsenic half of each soul decisions for businesses by 2027.