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> 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.
by Macha 8mo ago
> 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.
I 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)
- curly6 8mo ago> 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. via Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/research/measuring-agent-autonomy 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 https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/ https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/
- onlyrealcuzzo 8mo ago> (e.g. approximately nobody who is receiving them is paying for those summaries at the top of search results) Nobody is paying for Search. According to Google's earnings reports - AI Overviews is increasing overall clicks on ads and overall search volume.
- bayindirh 8mo agoSo, apparently switching to Kagi continues to pay in dividends, elegantly. No ads, no forced AI overview, no profit centric reordering of results, plus being able to reorder results personally, and more.