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New enterprise research shows the usage gap between top performing organizations and typical companies widening sharply. Power users are moving beyond basic chat prompts to delegate full multi step workflows directly to autonomous agents. Non technical departments like legal, recruiting, and finance are experiencing the fastest adoption growth as employees integrate custom skills into daily operations.

This 59-video course from IBM covers core concepts behind artificial intelligence agents, explaining how autonomous software reasons and executes tasks. Readers learn how to plan, structure, and assemble their own working agents from start to finish.

Research published by OpenAI shows that top-performing companies are pulling ahead of average businesses by leveraging autonomous software agents. Non-technical groups such as legal and marketing departments are driving some of the fastest adoption growth by automating complex tasks rather than relying solely on chat interfaces. Experts note that giving digital assistants direct access to business tools and operational context creates a compounding advantage over time.

Meta plans to introduce an automated agent system named Hatch in the coming weeks. The platform will enable third party digital assistants to talk to one another through chat messaging and could be offered under a high tier paid plan. The company is also building a foundation model called Watermelon scheduled for release later this year.