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The episode discusses the emerging concept of harness-as-a-service in AI infrastructure and its implications for building agentic applications.

A new layer of AI infrastructure is emerging as Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft all push beyond models into the runtime environments that make agents useful. NLW explains why “harness-as-a-service” may become one of the defining categories of the agent era, how it changes what builders can create, and why the next wave of agentic apps may come from renting the runtime instead of assembling every piece from scratch. In the headlines: blowout AI earnings from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. April AI Usage Pulse Survey: ⁠⁠https://tally.so/r/LZEyGy⁠⁠ SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FREE PROGRAM: AGENTOS ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://aidbagentos.ai/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Brought to you by: KPMG – Agentic AI is powering a potential $3 trillion productivity shift, and KPMG’s new paper, Agentic AI Untangled , gives leaders a clear framework to decide whether to build, buy, or borrow—download it at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.kpmg.us/Navigate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Granola - The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. 100% off your first 3 months with code AIDAILY at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://granola.ai/aidaily⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Mercury - Modern banking for…

People in this episode

Host: Nathaniel Whittemore

Topics covered

• AI infrastructure
• harness-as-a-service
• agentic applications
• AI earnings
• productivity shift

Keywords

• AI infrastructure
• harness-as-a-service
• agentic apps
• AI earnings
• productivity shift

Sponsors

KPMG, Granola, Mercury, Zenflow Work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cursor, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta

Products: Agentic AI Untangled, Granola, Mercury, Zenflow Work

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