AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power
Now, AI is all about agents—there’s no official definition, but roughly speaking, agents are large language model-based systems designed to make autonomous decisions to execute a task—and the shift towards them is part of what’s driving Silicon Valley’s power buildout. Agents are now at the heart of the frontier labs’ work on AI. Recently, OpenAI announced that a swarm of more than 10,000 agents sending 2.7 million messages had solved a longstanding math problem. Last week, Meta rolled out a [personal AI agent](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-releases-muse-a-personal-ai-agent-with-privacy-built-into-it/) that, the company said in a press release, is “built to work for billions of people worldwide.” ## You Might Also Like [](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pushes-its-new-ai-agent-on-employees-but-eases-off-on-tokenmaxxing/#intcid=_wired-article-bottom-recirc-bkt-a_d2115039-a94a-4bf7-b272-e4c736edc64f_closr_fallback_text2vec1) [Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pushes-its-new-ai-agent-on-employees-but-eases-off-on-tokenmaxxing/#intcid=_wired-article-bottom-recirc-bkt-a_d2115039-a94a-4bf7-b272-e4c736edc64f_closr_fallback_text2vec1) [](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/#intcid=_wired-article-bottom-recirc-bkt-a_d2115039-a94a-4bf7-b272-e4c736edc64f_closr_fallback_text2vec1) [OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent](https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/#intcid=_wired-article-bottom-recirc-bkt-a_d2115039-a94a-4bf7-b272-e4c736edc64f_closr_fallback_text2vec1) [![Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It](https://m