AgnesAI hits 20,000 daily users in 3 weeks after launch in Singapore
AgnesAI, a collaboration platform developed in Singapore, has surpassed 20,000 daily active users within three weeks of its launch.
The platform, developed by researchers and engineers from the National University of Singapore, integrates research, content creation, and real-time collaboration tools in a single workspace. Its creators position AgnesAI as a solution to the inefficiencies of using multiple software products for team collaboration and content production tasks.
User uptake
Since its recent debut on Product Hunt, AgnesAI has registered more than 20,000 daily active users, according to figures released by the company. The team behind AgnesAI projects that this number will reach 200,000 daily active users by the end of 2025.
The platform is being introduced as Singapore's answer to DeepSeek and focuses on supporting knowledge workers, entrepreneurs, and content creators. Feedback from these user groups suggests that the integrated approach allows for significant reductions in the time spent switching between separate applications such as ChatGPT, Notion, Canva, and Slack.
Features
AgnesAI offers a collaborative AI workspace, with AI incorporated throughout task division, version management, and context memory to improve teamwork efficiency. Its real-time editing capabilities allow multiple users to co-edit documents, reports, and slides simultaneously, with instant visibility of changes.
The platform uses a multi-agent architecture to coordinate the entire content creation process, from initial research through to final presentation. Underlying this is the Agnes-R1 reasoning model and Code Agents multi-agent framework, which employ structured pseudo-code for task orchestration. The company claims this approach has resulted in a 40% reduction in token consumption and a 20% increase in success rates for complex multi-step tasks, based on performance benchmarks such as GAIA and HotpotQA.
Additionally, AgnesAI includes advanced controls like conditional branching, loops, and automatic rollback, providing teams with greater ability to manage intricate, multi-round workflows.
Founding and vision
The development of AgnesAI was led by Bruce Yang, formerly an engineering manager at Microsoft and an alumnus of UC Berkeley. Yang pointed to his previous experience leading cross-functional teams as the impetus for founding AgnesAI, citing ongoing challenges with the disconnected nature of digital collaboration tools.
"Our goal was to make AI the intelligent centre of collaboration, not just an assistant," said Yang. "That meant rethinking how AI agents interact, how memory and feedback are preserved, and how people actually work together in teams."
Yang recruited a team comprising MIT PhDs, NUS researchers, and engineers from Tsinghua and Alibaba Cloud, all focused on embedding AI directly into collaborative processes rather than treating it as a supplementary feature.
Adoption and applications
Early adopters have utilised AgnesAI for projects including music and pop culture trend analysis, as well as the production of eCommerce performance reports for brands such as Adidas operating on Shopee and TikTok. The company stated that while the current platform emphasises workflows involving high-frequency, multi-person collaboration, visual generation features are expected to be introduced in future releases.
The release outlines AgnesAI's intention to provide a single platform that covers the full breadth of project work - from research and drafting to final presentation - within an intelligent workspace powered by proprietary AI models and orchestration frameworks.
