1. Core Positioning

AI Agents have moved from experimental prototypes and isolated pilots to the inflection point of scaled enterprise commercial deployment. 2026 is the industry's first year of commercial take-off, and 2026-2028 will bring full deep penetration of vertical industries, upgrading from "AI conversation tools" to "Business Agents that think, plan, execute and review autonomously".

Cortex is a sub-product of EAF, an agent platform focused on industry scenario deployment and orchestration (EasyStack Agent Platform).

2. Four Stages of Technology Evolution, 2023-2026

H1 2023, Emergence: AutoGPT proposed the ReAct think-act loop and OpenAI Function Calling was born; AI gained tool-calling capability for the first time, completing the leap "from Q&A to action".

H2 2023 - H1 2024, Framework Explosion: mainstream frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen and CrewAI took shape; multi-role collaboration, long context and multimodal capabilities iterated rapidly, and the ecosystem took initial shape.

H2 2024 - 2025, Commercialization Acceleration: Microsoft, Anthropic and Salesforce launched enterprise-grade Agent platforms; the MCP tool protocol and the A2A agent communication protocol landed, moving Agents toward standardization, interoperability and engineering discipline.

2026, Ecosystem Deepening: moving from single Agents and workflow Agents toward multi-Agent collaboration and the Agent Swarm cluster paradigm; dedicated Agent foundation models and a reusable Agent asset marketplace emerge, fully adapting to complex enterprise business.