From ReadWriteWeb to the Agentic Web
Analysis and practical guidance on the agentic web — how AI agents are changing the way websites and digital products are discovered, understood, and used.
It was only a matter of time before Google started turning its market-leading Chrome web browser into an “AI browser.” Today, Google began rolling out Gemini in Chrome, starting with Mac and Windows desktop users in the US. It comes with a bunch of new AI functionality — including AI Mode from the address/search bar, … Read more
In his new memoir, This Is For Everyone, Sir Tim Berners-Lee makes it clear he thinks AI agents are the future of the web. “In the near future, our lives will be transformed by AI ‘agents’ which will interact with the web and take actions to achieve specific goals,” he writes in the introduction. “I’ve … Read more
Earlier this week, we interviewed the two developers of MCP-UI, a new way to add React and web components to AI agents. One of them, Liad Yosef, worked for Shopify at the time MCP-UI launched (just three months ago). It’s no surprise, then, that Shopify did one of the first large-scale implementations of MCP-UI. Today … Read more
MCP-UI is a new open source project that provides a way to add web-based user interface components to AI agents. It builds on the already very popular Model Context Protocol (MCP), which standardizes API access for agents. MCP-UI could become a massive deal for the internet industry. To use professional sports terminology, MCP-UI has a … Read more
Webpages and websites are increasingly seen as “old world UIs” to proponents of AI agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This week, in a presentation at Microsoft’s MCP Dev Days entitled “The Future of User Interaction,” Kent C. Dodd even went as far as to say that “we’re entering a new phase where, instead … Read more
Is RAG dead yet? That was the tongue-in-cheek question posed recently by Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI. And Kiela knows a thing or two about RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) — he led the team at Meta that introduced the technique in a May 2020 research paper. Of course, Kiela’s post was a reaction to the … Read more
Last November Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard designed to streamline how AI models interact with APIs. As we explained earlier this month, the vision is to make MCP the universal method for AI agents to trigger external actions. MCP has drawn a lot of interest in its first few … Read more