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Agent economy

Agent 经济

Economic activity in which AI agents act as transacting parties: discovering services, negotiating prices, ordering and paying on behalf of people or companies, and buying and selling data, compute, models and tool capabilities from each other. What separates it from AI-as-efficiency-gain is that the agent isn't only a tool — it's a party on the ledger.

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