Big Tech Companies Buy AI Startups

This week showed that large technology companies want to own the best AI startups. The most important news is that Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, bought a startup called Manus for $2 billion. Manus is a company from Singapore that makes AI agents - special computer programs that can think and do jobs by themselves. These AI agents can write presentations, organize data, and help with many kinds of work. Meta thinks this startup is so important that they paid huge amounts of money to own it.

New AI Agent Tools Released

Other companies are also making new AI agents this week. Nvidia, a big company that makes computer chips, released something called Nemotron 3. This new tool helps multiple AI agents work together like a team. It comes in three different sizes - small, medium, and huge - so different companies can pick what they need.

A company called Moonshot AI from Beijing, China released a new AI agent called Kimi K2. This AI agent is really powerful and can do 200 to 300 different tasks one after another. Scientists think this is a big step forward because AI agents are getting smarter and can handle harder jobs.

Record Money for AI Companies

The money flowing into AI startups is huge. All the AI startups in the world raised $150 billion in 2025, which broke the old record of $92 billion from 2021. Most of this money went to the biggest AI companies. OpenAI got $40 billion, which is the largest investment any private company has ever gotten. Other big AI companies like Anthropic got $13 billion and xAI, owned by Elon Musk, got $10 billion.

Meta also bought a data company called Scale AI for around $15 billion earlier in 2025. These huge amounts of money show that big companies believe AI agents are the future of work and business.

Why People Are So Excited About AI Agents

Experts say 2026 will be special because AI agents will start doing real work for companies instead of just being experiments. For three years, people have talked about how AI would change business, but most companies have not seen real benefits yet. Now, companies are ready to move past testing and start using AI agents to actually get work done.

Companies like Amazon, Cisco, and Oracle are telling their customers that the time for proving AI works is over - now it is time to use it to solve real problems. The AI agents will help people by doing boring, repetitive tasks like entering data into computers, looking at documents, and managing networks. This means people can focus on more interesting and important work.

What Experts Predict

Investment experts say that 2026 is the year when businesses will finally spend money on AI that makes real money for them. Up until now, 95 percent of businesses were not making money from their AI investments. That is about to change.

Experts also think that single AI agents will team up to work together on hard problems. Imagine having a team of robot workers - one that writes code, one that checks for mistakes, and one that keeps everything safe. They all work together like people in an office.

There are some warnings too. Since so much money is going to just a few big AI companies, if AI does not actually work as well as everyone hopes, many businesses could lose a lot of money. Also, AI startup companies need to focus on solving real business problems or they will not survive, because companies are getting tired of just testing new tools.