For Silicon Valley giants, getting ahead in the artificial intelligence race requires more than building the biggest, most capable models; they’re also competing to get third-party developers to build new applications based on their technology.

Amazon Web Services joined the agentic AI frenzy in a big way this week, revealing at a New York City event Wednesday a host of services and tools dubbed Agentcore that let technologists build and deploy so-called AI agents capable of automating internal tasks while potentially overhauling the way consumers interact with online businesses too.

AWS beleives AI agents will change how enterprises work and with its new Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, it hopes to make it easier to build and deploy agents in one go.

Amazon Web Services is preparing to launch a new AI agent marketplace, according to information acquired by TechCrunch. Anthropic is expected to be one of its partners in the endeavor. The marketplace is likely to open on July 15, just after its official announcement at the AWS Summit in New York City.

AWS’ AI Agent Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic AI will boost customer and partner sales via the new cloud online marketplace.

AWS AI head declares a new age for agentic AI AWS also announces a host of new tools and services for AI Agentic AI could be "a tectonic change", AWS says AWS has declared AI agents could be as key as the dawn of the Internet,

Data graph platform Apollo GraphQL co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Matt DeBergalis is moving up to CEO, succeeding co-founder and CEO Geoff Schmidt, who will remain at Apollo in a new role focused on advancing the company’s technology and the GraphQL ecosystem.

The news arrives at a time when employers are facing growing pressure to onboard AI agents -- and also a dizzying variety of options.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching an AI agent marketplace next week and Anthropic is one of its partners, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new suite of capabilities and tools designed to support customers in developing AI agents on top of AWS infrastructure. At the core of this launch is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a service that enables customers to deploy and manage advanced AI agents securely and at scale.

Blaxel raises $7.3M seed funding to build specialized cloud infrastructure for AI agents, challenging AWS with purpose-built platform for autonomous AI systems.

Amazon Web Services VP Francessca Vasquez explains how companies are deploying AI, from pilot to production across industries.