As a startup sets its sights on building an OS for AI agents, an analyst says such an OS would be far different to what exists today.
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Word that a group of former Google executives plans to build an operating system for AI agents underscores the fact that there is a distinction between what application platforms are doing with agents today and what an AI agent-first OS would entail, said industry analyst Brian Jackson.
Jackson, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, said Wednesday that the OSes we use today “were built for a software architecture that is file-based and designed to be used with a computer and a mouse. An OS that is built around AI could look at defining computing as data-based, with intelligent models that continuously learn and adapt based on new data.”
He made the comments following the announcement from venture capitalist CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth …