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Chatbot vs agent?
A chatbot talks; an agent acts. The line is blurring: a chatbot wired to tools becomes an agent.
Related terms
AI Agent
An AI agent is an autonomous software system that perceives its environment, reasons, and takes actions to achieve a goal — often using an LLM as its brain and tools (APIs, search, code) to act.
Generative AI
A family of AI models that can create new content (text, image, audio, video, code) from a prompt.
LLM (Large Language Model)
An LLM is a large language model trained on massive text corpora, capable of understanding and generating natural language across many tasks: writing, summarization, translation, code, reasoning.
Copilot
An AI assistant embedded in a tool to suggest, complete or execute actions alongside the user.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
RAG is a technique that combines an LLM with a search engine over your own documents: the model retrieves the relevant information first, then generates an answer grounded in that information.
Last updated: 7/15/2026