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Published · transcript-backedAsha Sharma: evaluation
28 Aug 2025 Lenny's Podcast How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)
“I think that Manus breakthrough in the space was that they could do these tool calling loops and have agents do longer running tasks that really no other platform was able to do. I think stuff like that is critical.”
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- Asha Sharma
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- 28 Aug 2025
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…The rise of agents. It sounds like a Terminator movie. Do you have a sense of what the next season might be? Is there any like, "Oh, this might be coming next." Gosh, I don't, but I think that, look, we have more than 15,000 agents that are deployed on our service today, at least at the Azure service. There's a bunch of other platforms in the company and I would just say that I think that we should really focus on making sure that we have all of the alignment, accountability, observability, evals to making those agents great. I think that Manus breakthrough in the space was that they could do these tool calling loops and have agents do longer running tasks that really no other platform was able to do. I think stuff like that is critical. Memory is critical. There's still a bunch of building blocks that I think are leaving agents incomplete in the wild that I think we have to really sweat the details on before we move on. So it's just like agents until the end of time until super intelligence and then we're just on beaches chilling.…
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