Mizuho Launches 'Agent Factory' to Mass-Produce AI Agents — Cuts Development Time 70% Using Bedrock AgentCore + Dify

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Mizuho Financial Group launched its Agent Factory initiative to industrialize AI agent creation, reducing development cycles from two weeks to days and targeting thousands of deployed agents. The architecture splits by complexity: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for high-complexity operations and Dify (low-code/no-code) for rapid business-unit deployments. This is notable as one of the first major banks to move from agent experimentation to standardized mass production.