Anthropic's evaluations suggest small open models may soon replicate across cheap IoT devices without a datacenter, with no central shutoff point. AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → security teams should treat edge devices as potential compute for autonomous malware.
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inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
eval — A repeatable test for AI quality — a set of tasks plus scoring — used the way software teams use test suites, because model output is too variable to judge by eyeballing.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
