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🤖The Next Internet: Agentic Web 4.0 - by Iris Sun 👋

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We're witnessing the early stages of a transformation as profound as the web's emergence—but this time, the collaborative proxy between AI system execution and human intention is driving the shift. Microsoft's recent moves toward the agentic web, announced at Build 2025, exemplify this evolution. The company has integrated over 50 AI agent tools across various platforms, including GitHub, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Windows. Additionally, NLWeb (Natural Language Web) has emerged as a transformative toolset designed to convert traditional web interfaces into agent-readable, structured environments. The progression from a human-navigated web through an agent-assisted ecosystem toward full automation, where autonomous AI agents and agent systems collaborate to reason, plan, and execute goals directly. This transition requires a fundamental reconsideration of core web and mobile components, including interfaces, communication protocols, information storage, retrieval, and exchange mechanisms

We're witnessing the early stages of a transformation as profound as the web's emergence—but this time, the collaborative proxy between AI system execution and human intention is driving the shift. Microsoft's recent moves toward the agentic web, announced at Build 2025, exemplify this evolution. The company has integrated over 50 AI agent tools across various platforms, including GitHub, Azure, Microsoft 365, and Windows. Additionally, NLWeb (Natural Language Web) has emerged as a transformative toolset designed to convert traditional web interfaces into agent-readable, structured…

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