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Mar 23, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

The Future of AI Agents: From Prompt‑Driven Workflows to Model‑as‑Product and Reinforcement‑Learning‑Powered Agents

The article argues that the next wave of AI agents will shift from brittle, prompt‑driven workflows like Manus to truly autonomous, model‑centric agents trained with reinforcement learning and reasoning, exemplified by OpenAI's DeepResearch and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.7, while the API‑driven market model collapses.