What’s next for agentic AI? LangChain founder looks to ambient agents

Agentic AI is the latest big trend in generative AI, but what comes after that?

While full artificial general intelligence (AGI) is likely still some time in the future, there might well be a more intermediate step with an approach known as ambient agents.

LangChain, the agentic AI pioneer, introduced the term “ambient agents” on Jan. 14. The technology that LangChain develops includes its eponymous open source LangChain framework that enables organizations to chain different large language models (LLMs) together to get a result. LangChain Inc. raised $24 million in funding in February 2024. The company also has a series of commercial products including LangSmith for LLM Ops.

With a traditional AI interface users typically interact with an LLM via text prompts to initiate an action. Agentic AI generally refers to LLM powered systems that take actions on the user ...