Proactive agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, xAI: dull now, transformative with smarter models
haider1 · x · 2026-10-26
A roundup of the proactive AI agents now emerging: Anthropic's duet, OpenAI's dots, Meta's muse, and xAI's grok bot.
The author argues they seem unimpressive today, but running on models smarter than Fable or Astra—ones that reliably handle complex, constantly changing needs—proactive agents could become genuinely transformative.
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