Multiple major tech companies launched and marketed AI agents as a distinct, commercially available product category throughout 2025, matching Sacks’s prediction of “a whole new wave” of agentive products.

Evidence of a broad 2025 agent wave:

• Microsoft security agents (early 2025): At Microsoft Secure and RSA Conference 2025, Microsoft rolled out Security Copilot agents—described as autonomous AI designed to tackle high‑volume security tasks—and began phased public preview to paying enterprise customers.(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
• Microsoft 365 Copilot agents & Agent 365 (late 2025): At Ignite 2025, Microsoft announced Word/Excel/PowerPoint “agents in chat,” an “Agent Mode” in Office apps, and Agent 365 as a control plane for managing large numbers of agents across an organization. These capabilities are positioned as a new agent ecosystem layered on top of the already widely deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot, which Microsoft says is used by over 90% of the Fortune 500.(news.microsoft.com)
• Salesforce Agentforce 360 (Oct 2025): Salesforce launched Agentforce 360, an AI agent platform that automates routine workflows across its cloud products. Reuters reports that Agentforce 360 already had about 12,000 customers at global launch, indicating substantial commercial uptake rather than a niche experiment.(reuters.com)
• Consumer/SMB autonomous agents (Manus): Butterfly Effect’s Manus AI agent, launched March 6, 2025, is marketed as an autonomous agent capable of independent reasoning and multi‑step task execution, available as a web, iOS, and Android product—one of the first general-purpose consumer agent apps.(en.wikipedia.org)
• Cross‑industry framing of a new “agentic” era: Industry coverage in 2025 explicitly talks about the “age of agentic AI,” describing agents as a shift from simple copilots or chatbots to systems that plan, reason, and execute multi‑step workflows across tools and data sources.(itpro.com) In parallel, analysts like IDC (via Microsoft) forecast over a billion AI agents by 2028, reinforcing that vendors and enterprises regard “agents” as a distinct, emerging product category rather than a mere UI tweak.(microsoft.com)
• Commerce and vertical agents: Financial analysis from Morgan Stanley in 2025 discusses “agentic commerce” and AI shopping agents used by major retailers (e.g., Amazon’s Rufus and other shopping assistants), treating agents as a new way consumers will interact with e‑commerce by autonomously handling search, comparison, and purchase flows.(businessinsider.com)

Across enterprise security, productivity suites, CRM, and consumer/mobile, 2025 saw a clear wave of explicitly branded AI “agents” and “agentic” products moving beyond simple chat to delegated, multi‑step task execution. These products were commercially available (often to large paying customer bases) within the 2025 calendar year, and industry commentary treats them as a notable new category. That aligns closely with Sacks’s forecast of “a whole new wave” of agentive products arriving in 2025, so the prediction is right.