Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (opens strandsagents.com)
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
Context: Heartcore and Seedcamp led the pre-seed in the Munich startup, whose AI 'coworkers' learn how people work before automating it.
From SiliconANGLE: Artificial intelligence agents have become two a penny in the enterprise today, but just because they’re rapidly being commoditized does not mean organizations know how best to use them.
Marble Cognition · Pre-seed · $3.75M · with Heartcore, SeedcampAs stated by SiliconANGLE.
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
Anthropic also announced Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data the same day; Claude Meetings drafts plans and timelines as participants talk.
A standalone policy for US small and midsized businesses covering losses caused by the AI agents they deploy.
Bay lets enterprises vet each action an AI agent tries to take before it runs.
Zendesk will charge for problems solved rather than per seat, one of the first large SaaS vendors to move its AI to outcome pricing.
Always-on AI coworkers that live in Slack; 22 votes on YC Launches.