Agnes AI

About Agnes AI

Agnes AI is a product of SapiensAI, a Singapore-based company founded in 2025 by Bruce Yang. Yang, a Raffles Institution alumnus with degrees from UC Berkeley and HEC Paris, is also a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has prior experience at Microsoft and LinkedIn. He founded SapiensAI with a vision to establish Southeast Asia as a hub for AI innovation, countering the dominance of Western tech giants by creating AI solutions tailored to the region's diverse languages and cultures. The company was incubated by the NUS GRIP program.

Agnes AI officially launched on April 14, 2025, at an NUS GRIP event. The platform is described as a next-generation conversational AI agent and collaborative workspace that integrates real-time search capabilities with a personal knowledge memory engine. It allows teams to co-edit documents and presentations, share project context, and generate content, functioning as a unified workspace. The system uses a multi-agent framework that can plan, execute, and iterate on tasks like deep research and report generation from a single prompt. It is designed with deep contextual intelligence and trained on locally relevant datasets to serve the Southeast Asian market.

The business operates on a freemium model, offering a free tier to attract a broad user base, with a focus on growing daily active users before extensive monetization. This strategy proved successful, as the platform grew to over 3 million registered users and 200,000 daily active users within months of its July 2025 public launch. As of late 2025, SapiensAI was fundraising at a $100 million valuation. The platform's features include real-time co-editing, shared team memory, multi-agent content generation for slides and reports, and AI-native filters for creative expression. Agnes AI aims to differentiate itself by blending productivity with social networking features, positioning itself as a mobile-first "sovereign AI" for the region.