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Public story · 2026-08-31 · high
KandaQuantum and SMRK VC launched rival agent platforms days later, touting 1,285 agents and a ten-agent report in ten minutes.
Why now: Three vendors pitched agent counts to buyers within four days, August 26 to 30.
Huawei Cloud took CodeArts Agent to general availability across Asia Pacific on August 28, two days after Basic and Professional went commercial at beta pricing. Buyers evaluating agent platforms saw three different agent-count pitches arrive within four days, each treating the number itself as the selling point.
Agent Team, the platform's core feature, splits 16 specialized agents across requirements, architecture, coding, testing, issue resolution and code review. More than 30 reusable skills back the rollout, per the report on CodeArts Agent's release.
On August 30, KandaQuantum opened a closed beta of Fuga, an orchestration platform built around a single top-level agent. Internally, that agent managed 1,285 agents across four hierarchical levels in an August 20 run.
SMRK VC's Startup Due Dil goes the other way, using ten agents to produce a venture diligence report in ten minutes.
The three pitches span enterprise dev tooling, orchestration infrastructure and venture diligence, all quoting agent headcount the way SaaS vendors used to quote seats.
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