# AI agent

Science Prediction Universe (SPU) places AI agents in a real wet-lab prediction setting: given only experimental conditions and candidates, an agent has eight hours to search the literature, run calculations and rank candidates, which are then scored against measurements by Spearman correlation. The 100 public tasks come from recent Nature Portfolio papers and the 16 private tasks from unpublished experiments, so retrieval cannot help. The best of thirteen frontier-model configurations beats chance on only about half its scored tasks, and more reasoning effort or more tool families brought no detectable score gain.

Science Prediction Universe (SPU) places AI agents in a real wet-lab prediction setting: given only experimental conditions and candidates, an agent has eight hours to search the literature, run calculations and rank candidates, which are then scored against measurements by Spearman correlation. The 100 public tasks come from recent Nature Portfolio papers and the 16 private tasks from unpublished experiments, so retrieval cannot help. The best of thirteen frontier-model configurations beats chance on only about half its scored tasks, and more reasoning effort or more tool families brought no detectable score gain.

Building a phase-diagram database has long depended on expert judgment that is rarely recorded, so published CALPHAD assessments are hard to regenerate or update as new data arrive. ORCHID-SAGE splits an assessment into a general protocol, a system-specific protocol and run cards for each execution, and distributes them with the database. For Cr–Ni, that record alone let a script on a second machine and an AI agent working only through an MCP server regenerate the database, with predictions inside the tolerances declared in advance.

Building a phase-diagram database has long depended on expert judgment that is rarely recorded, so published CALPHAD assessments are hard to regenerate or update as new data arrive. ORCHID-SAGE splits an assessment into a general protocol, a system-specific protocol and run cards for each execution, and distributes them with the database. For Cr–Ni, that record alone let a script on a second machine and an AI agent working only through an MCP server regenerate the database, with predictions inside the tolerances declared in advance.

ElevenLabs launched an enterprise marketplace listing industry-specific AI agents and voice applications built on ElevenLabs by partners including Salesforce, IBM, NiCE, Twilio and Zendesk, spanning financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, retail and government. Enterprises can browse solutions and contact the partners behind them to evaluate deployment, while partners gain a new channel to showcase their applications. ElevenLabs says that from next year enterprises will be able to buy eligible partner solutions through the marketplace using their existing ElevenLabs commitments.

ElevenLabs launched an enterprise marketplace listing industry-specific AI agents and voice applications built on ElevenLabs by partners including Salesforce, IBM, NiCE, Twilio and Zendesk, spanning financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, retail and government. Enterprises can browse solutions and contact the partners behind them to evaluate deployment, while partners gain a new channel to showcase their applications. ElevenLabs says that from next year enterprises will be able to buy eligible partner solutions through the marketplace using their existing ElevenLabs commitments.

NVIDIA released the Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX), a reference architecture that adds a factory manager agent to existing factory systems and has it coordinate specialist agents for inspection, root-cause analysis and fleet management. Previously, factory teams had to gather evidence across systems, consult specialists and coordinate the next step, which took substantial time and manual querying. FOX's SMT reference example follows an AOI alert through secondary inspection, rework transport in a digital twin and analysis of reflow oven readings, then returns a PDF report with source records and recommended actions.

NVIDIA released the Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX), a reference architecture that adds a factory manager agent to existing factory systems and has it coordinate specialist agents for inspection, root-cause analysis and fleet management. Previously, factory teams had to gather evidence across systems, consult specialists and coordinate the next step, which took substantial time and manual querying. FOX's SMT reference example follows an AOI alert through secondary inspection, rework transport in a digital twin and analysis of reflow oven readings, then returns a PDF report with source records and recommended actions.

At the 2026 World Conference on Traditional Medicine, Yidu Tech released Xiaohuangqi, a traditional Chinese medicine evidence agent that supports classic-text search, guideline and literature tracing, syndrome differentiation assistance, formula lookup and terminology translation. TCM knowledge is complex, terminologically distinctive and spread across many sources, so the system grounds answers in evidence and traces each sentence to its source to reduce the risk of AI hallucination. Its knowledge base draws on People's Medical Publishing House TCM knowledge and more than 8,000 international TCM terms; Yidu ZhiXun and the Yidu clinical assistant are reported in use at more than 40 well-known hospitals nationwide.

At the 2026 World Conference on Traditional Medicine, Yidu Tech released Xiaohuangqi, a traditional Chinese medicine evidence agent that supports classic-text search, guideline and literature tracing, syndrome differentiation assistance, formula lookup and terminology translation. TCM knowledge is complex, terminologically distinctive and spread across many sources, so the system grounds answers in evidence and traces each sentence to its source to reduce the risk of AI hallucination. Its knowledge base draws on People's Medical Publishing House TCM knowledge and more than 8,000 international TCM terms; Yidu ZhiXun and the Yidu clinical assistant are reported in use at more than 40 well-known hospitals nationwide.