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.
From SiliconANGLE: Ocient Inc., the maker of a speedy data analytics platform, today said it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to expand its agentic artificial intelligence analytics business.
Ocient · Series C · $100MAs 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.
Zendesk will charge for problems solved rather than per seat, one of the first large SaaS vendors to move its AI to outcome pricing.
Dropbox is buying cloud storage startup Tigris Data alongside DBX Agent Cloud, a storage service for AI agents.
Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents. The startup's new always-on "Teammates" can take on multiple roles within a workspace, while pulling existing projects, skills, and memory from the Perplexity tools you already use.
Built by the founders of remote desktop firm Parsec, Phaze gives AI agents remote workstations of their own; a16z wrote up its investment.