Competition over AI agents is intensifying across the tech industry, with big tech accelerating work on personal AI assistants and platforms to manage enterprise agents. Microsoft has launched Agent 365, while ServiceNow and AWS expanded a partnership on agent governance and development tools. Shares of enterprise software firms have recently recovered amid talk of companies breaking through the “SaaS-pocalypse” narrative. The article also rounds up moves by OpenAI, Anthropic and others.

Physical AI company RLWRLD said on Wednesday it unveiled its in-house robotics foundation model, RLDX-1. The company released three 8.1B-parameter variants, including a pre-training checkpoint and two platform-specific mid-training checkpoints, and made model weights, training code and technical documents available to external researchers via GitHub and Hugging Face. RLWRLD said the model processes vision, language, torque, touch and task memory, and highlighted its Multi-Stream Action Transformer architecture.