Who Will Build AI's Middleware Layer?
For AI to achieve its full potential - particularly AI Agents - there needs to be a robust middleware layer that connects:
AI models/APIs, AI tools and AI agents with…
third party databases, SDKs, payment systems, and other various user interfaces (online retail for example) with…
end-users.
Manus is a China-based AI Agent company that is building such integration capability into its AI agents to enable them to autonomously complete tasks and workflows. Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Oracle, SAP, Apple, PayPal and many other Software and Fintech companies would be wise to build such connectivity for their particular use cases. Stripe is a good proxy for a company that built connectivity across an industry. Stripe built a modern payments infrastructure via APIs (Stripe plays in the Payments space, but is an API company).