Glossary

AI Agent

A system that uses a language model to decide what to do next on its own. It perceives, reasons, acts, then observes the result, and keeps going until the job is done.

Also calledai agentsagent

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About this glossary

Plain-English definitions of the AI and AI agent terms that turn up in vendor pitches, product decisions and team conversations.