Mid-2026 Check-In: AI Agents Move from Demos to Production
After two years of progress, AI agents entered enterprise production in mid-2026, with automated workflows becoming standard.
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After two years of progress, AI agents entered enterprise production in mid-2026, with automated workflows becoming standard.
From code completion to autonomous coding, AI coding agents are changing how software is built.
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2 with 1 trillion total parameters — the largest open model at launch — excelling at agentic and coding tasks.
At Microsoft Build 2025, GitHub introduced the Copilot coding agent — it takes tasks, runs in the background on GitHub Actions and opens PRs.
Cognition releases Devin 2.0 with a collaborative IDE and a starting price slashed from $500 to $20 per month, taking the AI software engineer mainstream.
Butterfly Effect launched the general-purpose agent Manus on March 6, 2025; the invite-only rollout sparked a code-hunting frenzy with a 2M+ waitlist.
From Gemini (Dec 2024) to OpenAI (Feb 2025) to the whole industry, autonomous research agents went from novelty to table stakes within a year.
In January-February 2025, OpenAI launched Operator, a browser-driving agent, and Deep Research, an autonomous research agent — agents became products.
Google released Gemini 2.0 on December 11, 2024 — built for agents — and demoed Project Mariner, an agent that drives your browser.