Want AI agents to work better? Improve the way they retrieve information, Databricks says

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Nvidia snags the team and tech from AI chip startup Groq…Meta buys Manus AI…AI gets better at improving AI…but we might not know enough about the brain to reach AGI.

Happy New Year! A lot has happened in AI since we signed off for the year just before Christmas Eve. We’ll aim to catch you up in the Eye on AI News section below.

Meanwhile, as I’ve noted here before, 2025 was supposed to be the year of AI agents, but most companies struggled to implement them.