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ResearchPlease use our code to get a 20% off on MosaicThe Agent War & AI Models#AgentWar: Highlighting the high-stakes competitive race between frontier labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google to dominate the primary interfaces of digital labor.#ActionEngine: Focusing on the fundamental shift from conversational chatbots to autonomous systems capable of executing multi-step workflows.#DigitalCoworker: Referencing the vision of AI models acting as autonomous digital employees rather than simple advisors.#ClaudeCowork: Highlighting Anthropic's desktop-native agent designed to interact directly with local files, folders, and applications.#PerplexityComputer: Referencing Perplexity's cloud-based digital worker that uniquely orchestrates 19 different specialized AI models to execute long-term projects.#OpenAIOperator: Focusing on OpenAI's universal executor model designed to autonomously navigate any web-based interface exactly as a human would.#ProjectMariner: Referencing Google's Chrome-integrated agent (formerly Project Jarvis) that leverages a vision-action loop to control the browser.Macroeconomics & Automation#CantillonEffect: Exploring how early access to AI-generated "intelligence" acts like the issuance of new money, disproportionately benefiting early adopters and capital holders.#AIWealthInequality: Discussing structural projections that agentic AI adoption will substantially increase overall wealth inequality, even if it shrinks the wage gap.#AIProductivity: Tracking the profound impact autonomous agents are expected to have on middle-management tasks and the potential growth rate of the global economy.#AgenticFrontier: Marking the transition into a new technological era where the strategic redistribution of wealth and power has already begun.
