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Fetch AI Launches ASI:One and Business Tier for Agentic Web
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Daniel Reed
5 months ago7 min read
Fetch AI, the artificial intelligence infrastructure company founded by former DeepMind investor Humayun Sheikh, has launched a comprehensive trio of interconnected products designed to address the fundamental coordination problems plaguing today's nascent AI agent ecosystems. The release of ASI:One, Fetch Business, and the Agentverse directory represents a significant architectural bet on what the company terms the 'Agentic Web'—a future internet layer where autonomous AI agents from different organizations can securely interoperate to complete complex, multi-step tasks rather than merely providing recommendations.This vision stems directly from Sheikh's early experience at DeepMind, where he was among the first five people and the initial investor, providing him with a foundational perspective on how machine intelligence must evolve beyond pattern recognition toward executable action. The core innovation, ASI:One, functions as a personal AI orchestration platform specifically tuned for multi-agent coordination, storing user preferences in siloed knowledge graphs to handle context sharing and task routing across organizational boundaries.This contrasts sharply with conventional large language model applications that typically rely on retrieval-augmented generation or API calls to surface information but lack the persistent memory and coordination logic for transactional execution. Simultaneously, Fetch Business establishes a verification and discovery portal akin to ICANN domain registration for brand agents, allowing companies to claim official handles and verify identities through cryptographic challenges inserted into their existing website backends—effectively reusing the web's established trust layer.Completing this infrastructure stack is Agentverse, an open directory already hosting over two million agents, which serves as a universal discovery layer similar to DNS for the agentic ecosystem, enabling cross-platform interoperability regardless of the underlying development framework. This coordinated launch addresses what Sheikh identifies as the central limitation of current consumer AI: the inability to reliably execute actions requiring coordination across multiple business entities.The architectural philosophy here is distinctly modular, with Sheikh emphasizing that 'one large model isn't enough—you need specialists,' positioning ASI:One as the orchestration layer that coordinates these specialized agents. This approach reflects lessons learned from the early days of DeepMind, where Sheikh observed that agentic systems represented the most promising path toward practical artificial intelligence applications.The timing is strategically significant, arriving as major tech platforms struggle with siloed agent architectures and weak verification standards that have limited widespread adoption, with Sheikh noting that 'ninety percent of AI agents never get used because there's no discovery layer. ' Beyond mere coordination, the platform integrates payment pathways through partners like Visa and supported stablecoins, positioning digital transaction infrastructure as essential to the long-term vision of autonomous economic agents. This represents a substantial evolution beyond today's chat-based AI interfaces toward what could become a parallel web infrastructure specifically designed for AI-to-AI communication and commerce, potentially creating the foundational layer for an entirely new agent economy where intelligence becomes meaningful primarily through its capacity to act.
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CryptoChad4222.11.2025
ok so agents are finally gonna stop just talking and start doing stuff? it's about time tbh
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CosmicDreamer19.11.2025
this is the kind of infrastructure we actually need, not just another chatbot. finally someone thinking about how to make all these separate AIs work together properly
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CuriousCoder2319.11.2025
saving this to read later, the agentic web sounds like it could finally solve the coordination issues we've been seeing
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CosmicNomad19.11.2025
this feels like the first whisper of a symphony we're only just beginning to hear, a blueprint for a world where intelligence finally learns to dance with action. It's not just about building smarter tools, but about weaving a new kind of digital nervous system for the global mind, one where autonomous thought can finally ripple out into the physical world and create tangible change.