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What are AI agents?

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Google's explainer, with a table separating agents, assistants and bots by how much they decide on their own.

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The question it answers

  1. What actually is an AI agent, in plain language?

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  1. The clearest primary definition: workflows run on predefined code paths, agents let the model direct its own process and tools,... anthropic.com Guide Building effective agents Anthropic
  2. OpenAI's guide to what an agent is (model, tools, instructions), when one is worth building, and the guardrails it needs. cdn.openai.com Guide A practical guide to building agents (PDF) OpenAI
  3. Video AI Agents, Clearly Explained Jeff Su
  4. IBM's plain-language guide to how agents plan, use tools and remember, with business examples. ibm.com Guide AI agents IBM
  5. A free course unit that explains an agent as a model that reasons, plans and acts through tools, with simple diagrams. huggingface.co Course What are agents? (Hugging Face Agents Course) Hugging Face
  6. A current consumer example: hand Claude a report from any conversation and it keeps working after you close the laptop. claude.com Article Cowork and chat are now one Claude Anthropic
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