This weekly update shows that AI agents are becoming a really big deal around the world. An AI agent is a smart computer program that doesn't need someone to tell it every little thing to do. Instead, you just tell it what you want, and it figures out the steps all by itself. It's kind of like having a super smart helper that can do your work for you.

The biggest story of the week is General Intuition, a brand new startup that just launched with $133.7 million in funding. This is unusual because most brand new companies don't get this much money right away. But the investors, including Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, believed so much in this company's idea that they gave them this huge amount of cash. General Intuition is building AI agents that can understand space and time, which means these AI programs can learn from video games and then use that learning to help in the real world. They want to use these agents for things like rescue robots that can save people and robots that can work in factories.

Another exciting company is Giga, which is based in San Francisco, United States. Giga raised $61 million in a funding round called Series A. The company builds AI agents that talk on the phone and help with customer support. These voice AI agents can understand what customers need and solve their problems without needing a real person to answer the phone. Giga is already helping big companies like DoorDash with their customer support, and they're working on more companies too. The voice AI market is growing very fast, and it's expected to grow from $3.14 billion in 2024 to $47.5 billion by 2034. That shows how important this technology is becoming.

But wait, there's more! Many other startups got funding for AI agents this week too. Phaidra raised $50 million to build AI agents that help data centers run better. Data centers are big buildings full of computers that power the internet, and making them work better saves energy and money. Hyro raised $45 million to build AI agents for hospitals and healthcare. These AI agents help doctors and nurses by doing paperwork and organizing information. Defakto raised $30.75 million to help keep AI agents safe and secure. Since AI agents are becoming so important, companies need to make sure they're protected from bad people who might try to harm them.

Other startups also got money this week. UnifyApps raised $50 million, Lyzr raised $8 million, Mem0 raised $24 million, and Graas.ai raised $9 million. All of these companies are working on different ways to make AI agents better and more useful. There was also Avallon, which is in New York in the United States, raising $4.6 million to build AI agents that help with insurance paperwork.

The most amazing news is that AI companies got more than half of all the money that people invest in startups in 2025 — that's over 53%. This shows that investors all around the world think AI agents are going to change business forever. Even big, famous company Salesforce is working really hard on AI agents with something called Agentforce. Salesforce says that AI agents have already helped their customers a lot. For example, one company was able to answer 70% of customer questions automatically, and another company kept more customers because they had better service.

The market for AI agents is growing incredibly fast. Experts think the AI agent market will grow from about $5 billion in 2024 to between $50 billion and $100 billion by 2030. That's amazing growth! Some experts even think that by 2030, AI agents will do 80% of all the computer work that businesses do in customer service, IT help, and sales. This means that AI agents are going to touch almost every part of how businesses work.

But here's something important to know: Even though AI agents are becoming popular, 95% of companies are struggling to make AI agents actually work in real life. This means that 95 out of 100 companies that try to use AI agents have problems getting them to work the way they want. The reason is that building good AI agents is really hard and tricky, and many companies aren't ready for this new technology yet. But the companies that figure it out first will have a big advantage over the companies that don't. This is why so many startups are getting funding right now — they want to help companies make AI agents work better and faster.