Welcome to Emergence, where the future of enterprise workflow automation begins. Listen to exciting words from our co-founders Satya Nitta, Sharad Sundararajan, and Ravi Kokku, Learn Capital's founder and investor Rob Hutter, our research scientist Ashish Jagmohan, and our Chief Design Officer Hélène Alonso as they share how we’re advancing the science and development of #AIagents. Follow us to discover how intelligent agents will unlock the full potential of #AI in enterprise systems.
Emergence
Technology, Information and Internet
New York, NY 544 followers
Emergence is advancing the science of agents and the creation of multi-agent systems.
About us
Emergence's goal is to advance the science of agents and the creation of multi-agent systems for the Enterprise.
- Website
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https://emergence.ai
External link for Emergence
- Industry
- Technology, Information and Internet
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2018
Locations
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Primary
8 W 40th St
New York, NY 10018, US
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16511 Scientific Way
Irvine, California 92653, US
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Phoenix Citadel, Castle St, Ashok Nagar
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN
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Calle de Juan de Mariana, 15, Arganzuela, 28045
Madrid, ES
Employees at Emergence
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Max Tsou
Multifaceted & Strategic Product Management Leader | Customer-Driven | Scrum Master | Six Sigma | Consumer Electronics
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Marc Boxser
Advising some amazing companies!
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Hélène Alonso
AI Design Exec | 0-1 Product Strategist | Vision to launch | Spatial Systems | Brand | Award-Winning Products
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Shalini Padhma M
Updates
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With increasing interest in #AIagents and systems, a myriad of definitions have emerged over time, especially after the introduction of large language models (#LLMs) and vision language models (#VLMs). As we advance this science, it is useful to have one encompassing definition that is extensible as well as expressive, building on commonly understood concepts from the past. Emergence's definition of an agent refers back to a few basic principles that embody an agent, using them to develop the notion of an “agent object” in the world of LLMs and LVMs. For an agent object to be programmed scalably to build robust systems, we believe it must embody the following primary concepts: ✔️ Autonomy: An agent is an autonomous, interactive, goal-driven entity with its own state, behavior, and decision-making capabilities. It has the capability of self-improvement when it sees that it is unable to meet the performance parameters for reaching its goal. ✔️ Reactivity and Proactivity: Agents can be reactive (understand their environment and respond to changes using actions) and be proactive (take initiative based on their goals). Agents can take actions that change the state of their environment, which can ensure their progress towards their goal. ✔️ Beliefs, Desires, and Intentions (BDI): A common model used in agent-oriented programming (AOP) is the BDI model, where agents are characterized by their beliefs (information about the world), desires (goals or objectives), and intentions (plans of action). ✔️ Social Ability & Communication: Agents have a communication mechanism and can interact with other agents or entities in their environment. This interaction can be highly complex, as it may involve negotiation, coordination, and cooperation. We believe that with the advent of LLMs, this communication can be completely based on natural language, which is both human- and machine-understandable. ✔️ Constitution: An agent needs to adhere to some regulations and policies depending on the imperatives of its task and goals. It needs to protect itself from being compromised or destroyed as well as be trusted not to harm other agents sharing the environment in which it is operating. ✔️ Memory: An agent must retain Long Term Memory (LTM) to ensure the successful completion of a task. When successfully employed by an agent, it can significantly reduce repetitive computing and reproduce human demonstrations. It also has short-term memory, which relies on any information based on the available context length. Learn more about the anatomy of #AI agents here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e4ctp8qC
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“Emergence” is a compelling phenomenon observable both in natural systems and in engineered designs, where complex behaviors and patterns arise from simple interactions. As James McClelland and John Holland have illustrated, systems composed of simple agents can evolve to exhibit intricate patterns and capabilities that transcend those of any individual component. For example, imagine millions of birds following just three simple rules: avoid crowding your neighbors (separation), fly in the same direction as those around you (alignment), and stay close to the flock (cohesion). Nothing in any individual bird’s “programming” calls for the complex murmuration for which starlings are known, pictured here. Yet, when many starlings form a system, their repeated basic interactions give rise to this breathtaking behavior. This is emergence in action – the birth of complex phenomena from surprisingly simple, non-linear rules. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eq-WYxxy
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In his book The Society of Mind, Marvin Minsky conceptualizes the mind as a society of small components with specialized goals and functions, otherwise known as agents. Organized hierarchically, each agent is responsible for different mental functions and has its own rules for interacting with other agents. These agents possess the ability to work both individually and collectively as a group, advancing cooperation and leading to intelligent behaviour and cognitive processes through their interaction. As such, no individual agent is built to form consciousness or intelligence—these phenomena emerge naturally from the system of agents. This is what, today, is a cornerstone of our ideology. Learn more in our recent blog post, ‘The Emergence of Emergence’ 👉 https://lnkd.in/eq-WYxxy #AI #AIagents
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Our parent company doing great things with really smart people! #generativeAI #AIagent
"Some of the world's greatest AI systems have been touched by people who work here," said Satya Nitta, our CEO and Co-founder. At Emergence, we are pushing the boundaries of AI with a team that embodies diversity, talent, and expertise. Our greatest strength lies in the exceptional individuals who drive our mission forward. Our team is composed of experts from some of the world’s leading #AILabs, including IBM Research, Google Brain, Alexa, the Allen Institute of AI, Meta, and Microsoft. This wealth of experience equips us to build scalable and enduring systems. We collectively have 25+ PhDs and over 1,000 patents. But we are not just engineers or developers; we are architects of cognitive ecosystems, crafting tools that think, learn, and ultimately, understand. At the core of our development is a commitment to social intelligence — the idea that our technologies should enhance the capabilities of human teams and networks. We are dedicated to shaping the future of #GenAI, enhancing workflows, and creating an innovative agentic future. Discover more about our team and projects here 👉 https://www.emergence.ai/ #AI #AIagents
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"Some of the world's greatest AI systems have been touched by people who work here," said Satya Nitta, our CEO and Co-founder. At Emergence, we are pushing the boundaries of AI with a team that embodies diversity, talent, and expertise. Our greatest strength lies in the exceptional individuals who drive our mission forward. Our team is composed of experts from some of the world’s leading #AILabs, including IBM Research, Google Brain, Alexa, the Allen Institute of AI, Meta, and Microsoft. This wealth of experience equips us to build scalable and enduring systems. We collectively have 25+ PhDs and over 1,000 patents. But we are not just engineers or developers; we are architects of cognitive ecosystems, crafting tools that think, learn, and ultimately, understand. At the core of our development is a commitment to social intelligence — the idea that our technologies should enhance the capabilities of human teams and networks. We are dedicated to shaping the future of #GenAI, enhancing workflows, and creating an innovative agentic future. Discover more about our team and projects here 👉 https://www.emergence.ai/ #AI #AIagents
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At Emergence, we believe the future of AI is agentic, and we are leading the change. Last week at the AI Engineer World’s Fair, our CEO and Co-founder Satya Nitta launched our Orchestrator agent and discussed the advancement of #AI. Follow us to learn how intelligent agents will unlock the full potential of AI. #AIEWF #AIagents #ArtificialIntelligence
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I’m delighted to announce that we have launched our new company emergence (https://www.emergence.ai/) which has been in incubation for the last 18 months or so. Emergence is an R&D led AI company with a focus on advancing the science of self-improvement in agents as well as on developing the critical infrastructure to enable AI agents to be built and orchestrated together to control all kinds of systems. We are a team of researchers, technologists and builders who have worked at some of the top AI labs in the world and have worked on the most scaled deployments of AI on the planet. The full promise of AI all along has been that it will perform action on our behalf and enable us to lead more productive lives. At emergence, we are passionate about unlocking this promise. We will do so in the context of solving enterprise automation tasks which are a fantastic proving ground for building deeply intelligent systems that learn, remember, reason, act and enhance human productivity in the process. To begin with, we are proud to unveil our SOTA web agent, Agent-E, designed to navigate and operate web browsers just like humans and learn to automate as much of human use of the web as possible. Agent-E currently handles 10 to 30% more tasks on different websites than previously published results on the Web Voyager and Wilbur benchmarks, without being explicitly programmed for these websites. Agent-E is an open source project (MIT license, https://lnkd.in/ePuc6XPD), so please join us in advancing AI operation of the web. Also sign-up for early access to our orchestration agent (https://lnkd.in/ePwhG_Pc) which will be released shortly. The orchestration agent is designed to allow multiple agents or LLMs to be stitched together to enable agentic loops and flows to solve complex automation tasks in the process. As long-time researchers and developers of AI in previous roles, we have demonstrated a deep commitment to responsible AI, and we are doubling down on it at emergence. We believe that the best way to ensure AI agents stay within the bounds of what they were purposed to do, is to develop them in open source. Several of our thought leadership pieces on self-improvement in agents, etc., are at https://lnkd.in/eEEDBfgR. Finally, I feel humbled to quote James McClelland, who wrote the following in his seminal paper on the emergence of human cognition*: “The greatest achievements of human cognition may be largely emergent phenomena. It remains a challenge for the future to learn more about how these greatest achievements arise and to emulate them in artificial systems.” We are inspired by this challenge and at the heart of our technology development efforts is the fundamental quest to build deeply intelligent systems where multiple distributed intelligent modules or agents work with each other in agentic loops and solve tasks cooperatively. *Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (2010) #ai #ai-agents
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The ability of AI agents to understand language and develop functional world models is revolutionizing computing. At Emergence, we're dedicated to advancing this technology, creating systems that redefine human-machine collaboration. Our mission is to develop highly intelligent systems capable of truly unlocking #AI's potential to benefit humanity. Curious to learn more about the promise of AI? Read our blog post 👉 https://lnkd.in/efKUfc3N
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What an incredible night celebrating the launch of our Orchestrator Agent with the #AI community in San Francisco! Thanks to everyone who joined us today. Visit our website to learn more about us and our work 👉 https://www.emergence.ai/