‘SIMBA’ UPGRADED:

The rapid development of agentic and physical AI models could lead to the deployment of more than 1 billion AI agents, an executive said

By Meryl Kao / Staff reporter

The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is entering a new phase centered on agentic and physical models, shifting from generative AI and creating new opportunities across Taiwan’s technology supply chain, Pegatron Corp (和碩) chairman Tung Tzu-hsien (童子賢) said yesterday.Agentic AI is capable of carrying out more complex tasks, while physical AI encompasses applications such as autonomous vehicles, robots and smart medical devices, representing the next stage of the technology’s integration into the real world, Tung said on the sidelines of the Computex expo in Taipei.Rapid development of agentic and physical AI could lead to the deployment of more than 1 billion AI agents worldwide, he said.

Pegatron Corp chairman Tung Tzu-hsien, front, third right, cochief executive officer Gary Cheng, front, second right, and others gesture at the company’s booth at the Computex trade show in Taipei yesterday.