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The Agent Era Is Here and 40% of Enterprise Apps Will Have AI by 2026
Are you ready to take advantage of this?
Midas AI
August 26, 2025
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Today the ground is shaking under big tech and here’s a stat that confirms it.
40% of enterprise apps will include ai agents by 2026
Gartner’s latest forecast just fast tracked the agent era, they’re saying that by 2026, 40% of enterprise applications will come with built in AI agents handling specific tasks.
That’s a massive and incredibly fast jump from less than 5% right now.
Enterprise buyers aren’t waiting for the future, they’re already expecting AI to be driving the experience, not just sitting backs.
Think things like productivity tools, CRM platforms, customer engagement software, all of these are rapidly weaving in job specific agents that actively carry out tasks, not just assist passively.
In other words, it’s not just AI enabled anymore. It's AI do it for you.
This makes your "agent gap" a strategic risk.
If you’re building vertical SaaS, workflow automation tools, or internal apps, a static UI with a few smart suggestions won’t cut it.
The standard is shifting to built in actors, ones that can understand context, take initiative, and complete workflows autonomously (or at least look like they do).
We’re seeing the same story across the enterprise software space, legacy players layering agents into trusted interfaces.
Startups launching with agent first metaphors. And platform vendors racing to make agent frameworks, guardrails, and orchestration tooling dead simple to deploy at scale.
The opportunity? It’s not just about sprinkling LLMs into existing features. It’s about redesigning functionality around what tasks can now be done for the user, not just by them. That’s a mindset shift, and it means product roadmaps need an audit.
Ask, where are users still manually navigating clunky UIs to kick off tasks? Where could an always on assistant anticipate and execute actions instead?
Whether you're building for finance teams or facilities staff, your users will soon expect copilots who act, not just chat.
And if Gartner’s right, they’ll have dozens of apps doing just that by 2026.
🧠 The Download
Musk launches 'Macrohard' to take on Microsoft’s AI software empire unveiling a new AI native software company, cheekily named Macrohard, that aims to replicate Microsoft’s enterprise suite using Grok and multi agent systems.
Nvidia earnings could reveal where the AI boom bends, or breaks and investors are watching Nvidia’s report this week as a litmus test for the entire AI economy, with growth expectations still sky high.
Google sells Gemini to the federal government for $0.47 per agency. Google quietly inked a deal to offer Gemini AI access to U.S. government agencies for less than the price of a gumball.
Nvidia edged up 2.1% ahead of its earnings release, but the real spotlight is on whether it can sustain investor faith in AI equities.
In Asia, AI infrastructure is where the money’s flowing, Huawei and Montage Tech just expanded their partnership to full stack compute integration, a high stakes signal from Beijing.
Arrive AI just flipped the switch, starting Q4, all consumer payments will be crypto only, making it the first scaled AI company to go fully on chain. With deployments in 20+ cities and a new Tier 1 contract, this isn’t a stunt, it’s ops level blockchain adoption.
That’s your daily AI edge for August 26th 2025.
See you tomorrow!
Midas AI