Nathaniel Whittemore

Now, Aaron Levy from Box connected this directly to the idea of headless software.

After the announcement, he wrote, this is probably the biggest news yet in software going headless and will bring knowledge work agents to the masses.

The new ChatGPT agents have access to any of the tools and data you want to work with and complete coding and tool use available to them.

This is precisely what agents will start to look like for knowledge work.

You'll be able to spin them up in the foreground or background to help augment work.

Big opportunity right now for headless platforms and for all the new builders and designers of these agents in the enterprise.

Still, we are not even halfway through the enterprise agent announcements that we've gotten this week.

Microsoft's latest agentic offering is called Hosted Agents.

And this is basically their version of Anthropic's recently announced Claude Managed Agents.

CEO Satya Nadella writes, Every agent will need its own computer.

And with new hosted agents in Foundry, every agent gets its own dedicated enterprise-grade sandbox with durable state, built-in identity and governance, and support for any harness or framework.

Basically, the idea is that Microsoft is now allowing Foundry customers to run agents on their, Microsoft's, infrastructure.

The agent gets its own configurable sandbox with a persistent file system, essentially creating a safe and observable environment for an agent to operate within.

Users can bring their own harnesses, orchestration systems, and execution environments to ensure the agent can operate exactly how it needs to.

Now, as a side point, you can see Microsoft leaning into their new multi-vendor platform.

In their announcement post, even, they wrote...

This flexibility is the point.

Unlike platforms that force one model and one harness, Foundry is multi-model and multi-harness by design.

Run models from OpenAI, Anthropic, MetaMistral, and more.

Bring any orchestration framework.