Meta Platforms ( NASDAQ:META ) has gone all-in on artificial intelligence (AI), releasing open-source models like Llama, building massive data centers, and integrating AI features across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other products. The company aims to lead in AI development and deployment to billions of users. However, despite its far-flung ambitions, there was a big hole in its ambitions: a proven, autonomous AI agent capable of independently executing complex real-world tasks for consumers and businesses. However, Meta just filled the gap with $2 billion plug.
The three agent offerings, dubbed frontier agents, are "a new class of AI agents that are autonomous, scalable, and work for hours or days without intervention," stated AWS in a press release.