SAS develops framework for AI agents

UK – Data and AI company SAS has added a framework to its platform to allow organisations to design and use AI agents to carry out tasks and make decisions.

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Through the company’s Viya platform, users will now be able to build, deploy and monitor AI agents and track their performance.

SAS has developed its AI ‘agentic framework’ by combining deterministic analytics with large language models.

The framework will allow companies to decide how much autonomy they want their AI agents to have, and how much involvement humans should have.

Nick Patience, vice-president and practice lead, artificial intelligence software and tools at The Futurum Group, said the move offers “a pragmatic framework for responsible enterprise AI adoption”.

SAS is also planning to add productivity assistants into its platform to help users work faster, and to launch ‘pre-packaged, domain-specific’ agents that will integrate into industry workflows such as data engineering tasks.

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