AI Agent Developments - March 1, 2025 ServiceNow launched its AI Agent Control Tower, a centralized platform for managing agentic AI systems across enterprises, with AI Agent Orchestrator enabling multi-agent collaboration and AI Agent Studio for custom agent creation. These tools, now available on the ServiceNow Platform, aim to automate complex workflows in IT, HR, and customer service, leveraging billions of data points and existing workflow investments. IBM analysts highlighted 2025 as the "year of the agent", emphasizing improved reasoning, planning, and tool-calling capabilities in AI agents. Key advancements include chain-of-thought training and expanded context windows, enabling agents to handle sophisticated enterprise tasks like IT troubleshooting and sales optimization. OpenAI’s o3 model continues to dominate scientific problem-solving benchmarks, while Meta’s AI-driven productivity tools reportedly reduced HR case resolution times by 36%. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Grok 3 entered final testing, promising unprecedented reasoning capabilities for consumer-facing applications. In robotics, generative AI breakthroughs accelerated training for systems like Google DeepMind’s RT-2, enabling robots to learn dishwashing and object manipulation from diverse data sources. NASA’s decision to block China’s DeepSeek AI from federal systems underscored growing geopolitical tensions over AI infrastructure. The U.S. government advanced its $500 billion Stargate Project, partnering with OpenAI and Oracle to build next-gen AI data centers, signaling a massive push for sovereign AI capabilities. Analysts predict 50% of enterprises will deploy specialized AI agents by year-end, driven by cost reductions from innovations like DeepSeek’s FP8 training and optimized inference architectures.