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From chatbots to collaborators: How AI agents are reshaping enterprise work


Anthropic's Scott White explains how AI agents evolved from chatbots to autonomous workers at VentureBeat Transform 2025, cutting enterprise tasks from weeks to minutes.

“I no longer think about my job as writing a PRD and trying to convince someone to do something,” White said during a fireside chat at VB Transform 2025, VentureBeat’s annual enterprise AI summit in San Francisco. This shift represents a broader transformation in how enterprises are adopting AI, moving beyond simple chatbots that answer questions to sophisticated “agentic” systems capable of autonomous work. “Evals are the new PRD,” White said, referring to product requirement documents, highlighting how companies must develop new methods to assess AI performance on specific business tasks.

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