AI ‘agents’ is an ‘overused’ term, says Nvidia-backed agents startup founder

No one knows what the hell AI “agents” are, and even an Nvidia-backed AI agents startup founder admits the term is “overused.”

“AI agents really take the trophy” when it comes to “overused” AI jargon, said Misha Laskin, co-founder and CEO of Reflection AI, during a panel at GTC Tuesday.

Laskin is still bullish on AI agents, of course, noting their potential for building reasoning models and “world models.”

Reflection AI, which builds autonomous AI coding agents, emerged from stealth earlier this month with a $130 million fundraise, Bloomberg reported

Both of Reflection AI’s co-founders are former Google DeepMind researchers, and the company won backing from investors, including Nvidia’s VC arm NVentures and Sequoia Capital.

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., ByteDance
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