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What is an AI agent?
What labs mean by an AI agent. Anthropic separates fixed workflows from systems that choose their own steps, and recent product posts use the word differently.
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What does AGI mean?
What AGI means in OpenAI’s charter, a DeepMind research paper, and a Demis Hassabis interview. The definitions differ, and each source is linked here.
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