agentic

American  

[uh-jent-ik, ay-] / əˈdʒɛnt ɪk, eɪ- /

adjective

1. Digital Technology. (of artificial intelligence) capable of acting independently to accomplish a goal or task; acting like a human agent.

2. (of a person) focused on one's own goals and acting independently to set and achieve them, as opposed to seeking or accepting direction, serving the goals of others, etc.

3. (of a process or activity) allowing participants to make their own judgments and decisions and work independently to achieve a goal.

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Other Word Forms

• agentically adverb
• non-agentic adjective

Example Sentences

Anthropic’s partner, a startup called Andon Labs that is workshopping agentic businesses, built the hardware and software integration, and handled the entire setup.

From The Wall Street Journal

Microsoft is building a vast “agentic ecosystem” to help businesses deploy AI agents on a large scale, he wrote.

From MarketWatch

“Tencent remains best positioned for consumer agentic AI in China given its Weixin ecosystem plus its track record in scaling consumer-facing products,” he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Overall, GPT‑5.2 brings significant improvements in general intelligence, long-context understanding, agentic tool-calling, and vision—making it better at executing complex, real-world tasks end-to-end than any previous model,” OpenAI added.

From Barron's

Narayen said the company is targeting double-digit annual recurring revenue growth in fiscal 2026 by improving its “innovative generative and agentic platforms” and growing its customer base.

From MarketWatch