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Thinking Outside the Bot

• What’s the next frontier in AI? For startups, the real opportunity lies in agentic AI — systems that act independently to tackle complex tasks.
• Co-founder & CEO Irzan Raditya of 500-backed B2B AI company Kata.ai believes the smart move is to build on existing Large Language Models (LLMs) rather than compete at the foundation level.
• “All the necessary frameworks [for agentic AI] are already available. The real game-changer is finding the right use cases to focus on,” he explained.
• After all, most users care more about what applications can do rather than the platform they’re built on, prioritizing the function over provider.
• What’s more, language comprehension is no longer a major barrier in AI, even for colloquial Bahasa Indonesian, with any remaining gaps estimated by Irzan to be under 5%.
• Read the full story on Tech in Asia.