Overview
- JPMorgan announced on Tuesday that it plans to roll out long-running autonomous AI agents later in 2026 that can run for hours to carry out multi-step workflows across different software systems.
- The bank says improvements in what it calls "intellectual coherence"—better reasoning plus code generation, browser control and desktop automation—let agents manage tasks for an hour or two without frequent human intervention.
- JPMorgan reports early commercial gains from AI in private banking, saying overnight screening tools helped lift gross sales by about 20% and could let individual bankers serve roughly 50% more clients.
- Executives said the move reflects tighter security, governance and operational controls, a push to build more AI capabilities in-house and plans to train or redeploy staff whose roles change because of automation.
- The decision follows a year of public demos of long-running agents from other firms and leverages JPMorgan’s scale and roughly $20 billion annual technology budget to bring the systems into enterprise use.