IBM unleashes CUGA, an open-source AI agent that actually completes more than half its tasks

IBM researchers have released an open source AI agent called CUGA that aspires to automate complex enterprise workflows and get it right about half the time, depending on the task.

CUGA stands for Configurable Generalist Agent. Per its listing on AI platform HuggingFace, the software offers “Intelligent task automation through multi-agent orchestration, API integration, and code generation on enterprise demo applications.”

"Our vision for IBM CUGA is to develop a generalist agent that can be adapted and configured by knowledge workers to perform routine or complex aspects of their work in a safe and trustworthy manner," wrote IBM authors Sami Marreed, Alon Oved, Avi Yaeli, Segev Shlomov, Ido Levy, Offer Akrabi, Aviad Sela, Asaf Adi, and Nir Mashkif in a paper [PDF] released back in July.

Not everyone is convinced that agents are safe or trustworthy. IT consultancy Gartner recently advised blocking all agentic browsers, after warning a few months ...