#multi-agent-systems

#multi-agent-systems

Manus debuted in March 2025 and immediately pitched itself as a leap beyond generative AI chatbots, which it characterizes as best suited to summarizing information and answering questions. The outfit promotes its own services as enabling "wide research and context-aware reasoning to produce actionable results in the format you need." To illustrate that promise, Manus offers a scenario in which users ask its tech to select the best candidate for an job by evaluating job applications stored in a .ZIP file.

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools are not magic and can complicate rather than simplify a software project. Understanding how they work under the hood can help developers know when (and if) to use them, while avoiding common pitfalls.

Google has added support for the Go language to its Agent Development Kit (ADK), enabling Go developers to build and manage agents in an idiomatic way that leverages the language's strong concurrency and typing features. The Go ADK is an open-source toolkit that enables developers to build modular multi-agent systems in which specialized agents are are organized hierarchically. It also provides support for debugging, versioning, and flexible deployment.

In the decades since natural language processing (NLP) first emerged as a research field, artificial intelligence has evolved from a linguistic curiosity into a catalyst reshaping how humans think, work, and create. Few people are as qualified to trace that journey, or to imagine what comes next, as Rada Mihalcea, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the Michigan AI Lab at the University of Michigan.

The latest release of the Agent Development Kit for Java, version 0.2.0, marks a significant expansion of its capabilities through the integration with the LangChain4j LLM framework, which opens it up to all the large language models supported by the framework. Before integrating LangChain4j, ADK for Java only supported two models, Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude. This contrasted with the Python ADK, which offered broader support via via LiteLLM.