Weaviate, a leading vector database developer, has just unveiled a new feature called Weaviate Agents.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. If 2023 was the year of generative AI-powered chatbots and search, 2024 was all about AI agents. What started from Devin earlier this year grew into a full-blown phenomenon, offering enterprises and individuals a way to transform how they work at different levels, from programming and development to personal tasks such as planning and booking tickets for a holiday.Among these wide-ranging applications, we also saw the rise of data agents this year — AI-powered agents that handle different types of tasks across the data infrastructure stack. Some did basic data integration work while others handled downstream tasks, such as analysis and management in the pipeline, making things simpler and easier for enterprise users. The benefits were improved efficiency and cost savings, leading many to wonder: How will things change for data teams in the years to come?Gen AI Agents took over data tasksWhile agentic capabilities have been around for some time, allowing enterprises to automate certain basic tasks, the rise of generative AI has taken things entirely to the next level.With gen AI’s natural language processing and tool use capabilities, agents can go beyond simple reasoning and answering to actually planning multi-step actions, independently interacting with digital systems to complete actions while collaborating with other agents and people at the same time. They also learn to improve their performance over time.Cognition AI’s Devin was the first major agentic offering, enabling engineering operations at scale

Vector database company Weaviate launched a new hosted embedding service for AI applications this month.