Institution

University of Illinois Chicago

Public research university in Chicago, USA; its data mining and AI group (led by Philip S. Yu) is prominent in agent and graph learning research.

AI Agents · Tencent

From Chatbot to Digital Colleague: A Survey of Persistent Autonomous AI

A Tencent YouTu Lab survey maps the chatbot-to-agent shift on two axes: cognitive core (Chatbot then Thinking LLM) and task execution (Agent then Workspace plus Skill), arguing persistent state is the real leap.

AI Agents · Lehigh University

OpenSkill: Self-Evolving LLM Agents With No Task Supervision

OpenSkill lets agents build skills and their own verifiers from the open web, hitting 43.6% on SkillsBench (+8.9 over the best baseline) with zero target-task answers.