> Agentic workflows are a VERY small percentage of all LLM usage at the moment. As that market becomes more important, Google will pour more resources into it.
replyI do wonder what percentage of revenue they are. I expect it's very outsized relative to usage (e.g. approximately nobody who is receiving them is paying for those summaries at the top of search results)
> Most agent actions on our public API are low-risk and reversible. Software engineering accounted for nearly 50% of agentic activity, but we saw emerging usage in healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity.
replyvia Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy
this doesn’t answer your question, but maybe Google is comfortable with driving traffic and dependency through their platform until they can do something like this
> (e.g. approximately nobody who is receiving them is paying for those summaries at the top of search results)
replyNobody is paying for Search. According to Google's earnings reports - AI Overviews is increasing overall clicks on ads and overall search volume.
So, apparently switching to Kagi continues to pay in dividends, elegantly.
replyNo ads, no forced AI overview, no profit centric reordering of results, plus being able to reorder results personally, and more.