Agents Hit the Factory Floor: Nvidia's FOX and Factory AI's Model Router Signal a Production-Ready Shift
Nvidia unveiled FOX, a reference design for factory-management agents, while Factory AI launched automatic model routing that cuts costs 25% — two signals that agentic AI is moving from demos to industrial deployment.
The agentic AI discourse shifted meaningfully on Monday from what agents could do in theory to what they're being deployed to do in practice. Nvidia announced FOX, a reference design for factory-manager agents, which @marcopapa99 described as the moment where "agentic AI stops being a slide and starts touching production lines." Separately, Factory AI introduced model routing — an automatic system that picks the right model for every subtask in an agentic workflow, claiming frontier-level performance at 25% lower cost.
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