The Internet of Agents Vijoy Pandey, Ph.D January 22, 2025 Figure 3: Evolution of agentic applications Some vendors (including Cisco) have started building these Multi-Agent Applications (MAAs), where multiple foundation and ML models are combined with traditional determinis- tic software to solve for a bigger problem (scale-out in the figure above) such as the univer- sal Cisco AI Assistant, or Salesforce Agentforce. Tools for this paradigm are in early-stage 13 advancements and have much potential ahead . Multi-Agent Apps (MAAs) are the “intranet” equivalent of agentic computation. The next logical step in the evolution will be to create an ensemble or workflows of MAAs (internet-scale, in the figure above). This Ensemble of MAAs would collaborate across ven- dor boundaries and across the Internet to solve for larger business (or personal or social or 14 physical) workflows . An Ensemble of MAAs are the “internet” version of agentic computation. 13 LangGraph and Crew.ai are examples of two currently popular tools 14 Satya Nadella on the BG2 Podcast with Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner ©2025 Outshift by Cisco and/or its afÏliates. All rights reserved. 6