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AWS launches AI agent marketplace with a hackathon and $100k in prizes for developers
SuperOps and AWS have a new initiative for businesses struggling to practically implement agents.
AWS debuted a similar virtual marketplace of its own for enterprise customers last month, featuring agents from developers like Anthropic, IBM, Perplexity, and others. The educational effort is well-timed: a recent survey found that while the majority (84%) of IT organizations are actively deploying AI agents, a relatively small percentage of them (44%) have any kind of oversight policies in place to monitor their behavior. The companies are kicking off the launch of the new marketplace with a "SuperHack Hackathon" competition, challenging developers "to build autonomous agents for real-world IT use cases," according to a press release.
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