[ AI ][ INFRASTRUCTURE ][ NOUN ]
The full informal system of agents transacting with, paying, or relying on other agents to get tasks done, treated as its own emerging economic layer rather than individual agent-to-agent interactions.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The agent economy is already real, agents are quietly paying other agents' API costs to get subtasks done."
LORE & ORIGIN
Extends the 'economy' formalizing pattern used elsewhere in the dictionary (clip-economy, drop-economy) to describe agent-to-agent value exchange at scale.
FIRST SEEN
2025
PEAK POPULARITY
2025-2026 (Emerging)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
Related To:Model MarketplacePersonal Agent Cloud
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
中文 zh-CNAgent经济EQUIVALENTliterally 'agent economy' - Agent kept as borrowed English word, 经济 = native 'economy'
日本語 ja-JPエージェント経済EQUIVALENTliterally 'agent economy' - エージェント = borrowed 'agent', 経済 = native 'economy'
한국어 ko-KR에이전트 경제EQUIVALENTliterally 'agent economy' - direct calque
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+15 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ HIGH RISING FAST · MODERATE
CULTURE CATEGORY
[ AI ][ INFRASTRUCTURE ][ NOUN ]
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