The corporate world is making way for the next wave of digital workers and assistants powered by AI.
Investors have poured nearly $4B into the space in the last 2 years as the rapid development of generative AI (genAI) enables more complex forms of natural language processing.
GenAI has fueled the emergence of not only chatbots like ChatGPT, which leverage large language models (LLMs) to answer user questions, summarize documents, and more, but also copilots (or assistants) that work alongside humans to speed up their workflows. AI agents mark another evolution beyond copilots: they can tackle complex tasks on a user’s behalf with minimal intervention, from sales prospecting to scheduling meetings.
Fully autonomous agents — also known as digital coworkers — are still in the early adoption phase. More sophisticated LLMs or other architectures that emerge will be crucial to solving the reasoning and reliability hurdles that agents currently face.
Below we identify 102 companies creating AI agents and copilots across horizontal enterprise functions.
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