How Harness-as-a-Service Will Change Agents
4/30/202629 min
A new layer of AI infrastructure is emerging as Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft all push beyond models into the runtime environments that make agents useful. NLW explains why “harness-as-a-service” may become one of the defining categories of the agent era, how it changes what builders can create, and why the next wave of agentic apps may come from renting the runtime instead of assembling every piece from scratch. In the headlines: blowout AI earnings from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta.
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, the emergence of harness-as-a-service, what it means for the agentic era. And before that in the headlines, a big tech AI earnings blowout. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. [upbeat music] All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitzy, Granola, and Section. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you wanna learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. And lastly, if you haven't yet, go check out the new Agent OS program. It's a tool agnostic, adaptable system for building an agentic operating system, and I have a feeling after you listen to today's harness-as-a-service episode, that you will wanna dig in even more. You can find that off of the main site, aidailybrief.ai. [computer sound effect] Today is one of those rare days where the headlines are all around the same theme, and that theme is, of course, big tech earnings. And to not bury the lead, let's go over to Shay Belleur who writes, "Hard to take the AI bubble argument seriously when some of the largest companies on Earth are still putting up these growth numbers. Google Cloud, plus 63% year over year. Microsoft Azure, plus 40% year over year. Meta revenue, plus 33% year over year. AWS, plus 28% year over year." We're gonna