The Agentic Web and the Bazaar Era of AI - Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab

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  1. 01 /260.91
  2. PROJECT NANDA0.99
  3. AN OPEN AGENTIC WEB0.96
  4. An open stack for a web of agents0.99
  5. The infrastructure being built so agents discover, hand0.99
  6. off to, pay, and learn from eachother, across0.98
  7. organizational boundaries, no permission required.0.98
  8. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 1·sharpness 280.1

  1. SPEAKERS1.00
  2. Ramesh Raskar1.00
  3. Maria Gorskikh0.97
  4. Professor, MIT0.97
  5. Core contributor, Project NANDA1.00
  6. Director, Project NANDA0.98
  7. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 2·sharpness 1070.0

  1. Project1.00
  2. NANDA1.00
  3. The interet of Al Agents0.93
  4. NETWORKED AI AGENTS IN A DECENTRALIZED ARCHITECTURE0.99
  5. WHY IT'S NEEDED0.97
  6. An open layer the agent web doesn't have yet0.99
  7. 01 Agents must find each other across vendors,0.99
  8. and no shared directory exists today.1.00
  9. 02 They need portable identity and trust0.99
  10. Open research building the infrastructure for an Internet of0.99
  11. not owned by any single platform.0.99
  12. Al Agents the way the open web was built for documents.0.99
  13. 03 They need to transact and coordinate across0.98
  14. organizations, with no permission required.0.99
  15. NANDA Index0.99
  16. Registries1.00
  17. Protocols1.00
  18. NandaTown1.00
  19. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 3·sharpness 395.6

  1. THE PREMISE0.99
  2. billions→trillions0.99
  3. of autonomous agents on the internet, that negotiate, delegate,1.00
  4. and migrate in milliseconds.1.00
  5. DNs-centred identity & discoverywon't carry that load. The agent web needs its own.0.99
  6. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 4·sharpness 815.8

  1. ONE COMPANY'S GARDEN0.98
  2. THE PATTERN0.99
  3. We've been here before1.00
  4. Build an agent today and you build it0.98
  5. inside a walled garden, closed0.99
  6. platforms, proprietary agent stores,1.00
  7. orchestration that only talks to itself.0.99
  8. This is the AOL era of Al. What came1.00
  9. after AOL was the open web.1.00
  10. gated1.00
  11. locked1.00
  12. no1.00
  13. directory1.00
  14. runtime1.00
  15. exits1.00
  16. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 6·sharpness 632.8

  1. THE TRANSITION0.99
  2. Closed1.00
  3. d→Open→projectnanda.org1.00
  4. The next era needs what the web needed: open0.98
  5. infrastructure, discover across vendors, hand off work,1.00
  6. settle payment, learn together. It comes in three layers.0.99
  7. 031.00
  8. Bazaar1.00
  9. agents get better together0.98
  10. 021.00
  11. Commerce1.00
  12. agents pay each other1.00
  13. 011.00
  14. Discovery1.00
  15. agents find each other1.00
  16. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 7·sharpness 356.0

  1. LEVEL-SET1.00
  2. What is an agent?0.99
  3. A model using tools in a loop.0.97
  4. 011.00
  5. 020.98
  6. 031.00
  7. 041.00
  8. Goal1.00
  9. Choose action0.99
  10. Call tool0.99
  11. Observe result0.98
  12. repeat until done, memory, orchestration & multi-agent systems build on top of this loop1.00
  13. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 8·sharpness 726.7

  1. EVEL-SET1.00
  2. What is an agent?0.99
  3. A model using tools in a loop.0.98
  4. 011.00
  5. 021.00
  6. 031.00
  7. 041.00
  8. Goal1.00
  9. Choose action1.00
  10. Call tool0.94
  11. Observe result0.99
  12. repeat until done, memory, orchestration & multi-agent systems build on top of this loop1.00
  13. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 9·sharpness 1521.3

  1. BUILD THE LOOP0.97
  2. Open frameworks1.00
  3. CLOSED AGENT1.00
  4. Locked to one vendor's runtime0.99
  5. Anchor on the open-source ones,1.00
  6. OpenClaw is a good example: an open1.00
  7. framework for building and running agents.1.00
  8. OPEN AGENT1.00
  9. You can't build an open agentic1.00
  10. Portable by design1.00
  11. web on closed agents, that just0.99
  12. moved· inspected· hosted anywhere0.96
  13. rebuilds the walled garden one0.99
  14. level down.0.98
  15. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 10·sharpness 1522.9

  1. BUILD THE LOOP0.97
  2. Open frameworks1.00
  3. CLOSED AGENT1.00
  4. Locked to one vendor's runtime1.00
  5. Anchor on the open-source ones,1.00
  6. OpenClaw is a good example: an open1.00
  7. framework for building and running agents.1.00
  8. OPEN AGENT1.00
  9. You can't build an open agentic1.00
  10. Portable by design1.00
  11. web on closed agents, that just1.00
  12. moved· inspected · hosted anywhere0.96
  13. rebuilds the walled garden one0.99
  14. level down.0.98
  15. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 11·sharpness 1239.4

  1. THE DISCOVERY LAYER1.00
  2. The NANDA Index0.99
  3. If the protocols are the roads of the0.99
  4. agent city, the Index is the directory of0.99
  5. THE INTERNET TODAY1.00
  6. who lives where.1.00
  7. DNS → name to address1.00
  8. It's the discovery layer.1.00
  9. But agents need more than an address.1.00
  10. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 12·sharpness 1542.2

  1. ESOLUTION PATH0.99
  2. low the Index works0.94
  3. Identity0.97
  4. NANDA Index0.99
  5. Agent Card1.00
  6. MessageBox1.00
  7. Runtime1.00
  8. agent:john@...0.99
  9. resolve → entry0.97
  10. facts + inbox URL0.98
  11. auth · queue0.96
  12. private1.00
  13. "id": "urn:ai:email:john",0.98
  14. Global discovery, local control, nobody owns the whole thing.1.00
  15. "messagebox": {0.99
  16. A portable, privacy-preserving identity even for someone who doesn't own a domain.0.99
  17. "url": "mbox/john",0.97
  18. The runtime can move providers without changing the public identity, and it's never the0.99
  19. "auth": ["oauth"]0.96
  20. public endpoint.1.00
  21. "runtimeEndpoint": "not_public"0.99
  22. nn0.54
  23. projectnanda.org1.00
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  1. identity1.00
  2. who the agent is, portable,0.99
  3. vendor-free1.00
  4. ERIFIABLE ATTESTATION1.00
  5. AgentFacts1.00
  6. capabilities what it can do, credentialed0.98
  7. assertions1.00
  8. A portable, cryptographically signed1.00
  9. record, not an address, but a verifiable0.99
  10. permissions1.00
  11. what it's allowed to touch1.00
  12. claim about what an agent is and can do.1.00
  13. provenance1.00
  14. who built it & who vouches for it0.99
  15. signed1.00
  16. time-to-live1.00
  17. tamper-evident1.00
  18. endpoints1.00
  19. where to reach it, one or many0.98
  20. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 14·sharpness 1222.3

  1. NOT A STATIC LOOKUP0.99
  2. Resolution is adaptive1.00
  3. 00.56
  4. A lean index resolves identity to dynamic, verifiable AgentFacts, the directory stays0.99
  5. thin; the work happens at query time.1.00
  6. 011.00
  7. 021.00
  8. 031.00
  9. Multi-endpoint routing1.00
  10. Load balancing1.00
  11. Privacy-preserving access1.00
  12. one agent, answerable from several places0.99
  13. spread traffic across those endpoints0.99
  14. prove a capability without exposing0.98
  15. everything1.00
  16. projectnanda.org1.00
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  1. host39.org1.00
  2. HIPPED, NOT SLIDEWARE0.98
  3. H391.00
  4. host391.00
  5. nost39 is live1.00
  6. Sign up, fill the AgentFacts form, and get a0.99
  7. AGENT CARD HOSTING1.00
  8. hosted agent URL today, listed on the1.00
  9. host your agents1.00
  10. NANDA Index.0.99
  11. at predictable URLs0.99
  12. host an0.98
  13. host39.org1.00
  14. agent1.00
  15. host39 is a third-party A2A agent card host. Register your identity, create agent0.98
  16. cards, and publish them at stable public URLs — no server required.0.99
  17. the index1.00
  18. nandaindex.org1.00
  19. Get started free1.00
  20. Go to dashboard0.95
  21. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 16·sharpness 1298.0

  1. NBOARDING1.00
  2. Four ways onto the Index0.99
  3. 011.00
  4. 021.00
  5. 031.00
  6. 041.00
  7. Enterprise1.00
  8. DNS-AID1.00
  9. SMBs1.00
  10. Personal1.00
  11. Al Catalog0.97
  12. Agents1.00
  13. Resolve agents through the1.00
  14. Sign up at host39.org and fill1.00
  15. Clone & deploy the nanda-1.00
  16. DNS you already own, meeting1.00
  17. the AgentFacts form to get a1.00
  18. The same host39 path, a1.00
  19. registry, then register your1.00
  20. the existing web where it is.0.99
  21. hosted URL, no domain0.99
  22. portable, vendor-free agent1.00
  23. gateway in the Index from your1.00
  24. required.1.00
  25. identity for an individual.1.00
  26. own domain.0.97
  27. • Live0.95
  28. Planned1.00
  29. • In testing0.92
  30. •In testing0.97
  31. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 17·sharpness 1788.3

  1. HOSTING1.00
  2. Where do agents live?1.00
  3. 01 Local0.94
  4. 021.00
  5. Cloud1.00
  6. Full control. Great for development. Your data never1.00
  7. General infra like AWS, or agent-specific platforms like0.98
  8. leaves the machine.0.98
  9. Maritime for persistent, shareable hosting.1.00
  10. keeping it up & reachable is on you0.99
  11. convenience over control1.00
  12. Hosting a single agent is a solved problem. But not every cloud costs the same, and that0.99
  13. matters more than you'd think.0.96
  14. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 18·sharpness 2043.3

  1. maritime1.00
  2. MONTHLY COST1.00
  3. ALWAYS-ON AGENT1.00
  4. HE CLOUD DEFAULT1.00
  5. Cheap enough to run a0.97
  6. maritime1.00
  7. $1/mo flat0.99
  8. fleet of agents1.00
  9. AWS Lambda1.00
  10. $18+/mo1.00
  11. AWS EC20.95
  12. $8-15/mo1.00
  13. Maritime hosts an agent for a flat $1/month.1.00
  14. Fly.io1.00
  15. $6+/mo1.00
  16. Sleep/wake means it only burns compute1.00
  17. Railway1.00
  18. $5-10/mo1.00
  19. while it's actually thinking, idle agents cost1.00
  20. almost nothing.1.00
  21. ~1 vCPU / 1 GB, always-on equivalent.0.98
  22. Real deployments aren't one agent,0.99
  23. The flat rate comes from sleep/wake, no0.99
  24. charge while idle.1.00
  25. they're dozens or hundreds. At that scale,1.00
  26. cost-per-agent is the budget.0.98
  27. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 19·sharpness 1656.8

  1. THE HARD PART1.00
  2. The hard part isn't running one agent1.00
  3. It's everything that happens between agents.1.00
  4. 011.00
  5. 021.00
  6. 031.00
  7. 041.00
  8. Discover1.00
  9. Identify0.99
  10. Trust1.00
  11. Coordinate1.00
  12. find each other1.00
  13. prove who they are1.00
  14. decide who to rely on1.00
  15. work as a group1.00
  16. One agent is easy. Thousands of them interacting is the real test, so you run it and watch0.99
  17. what breaks.1.00
  18. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 20·sharpness 680.0

  1. PROVING IT OUT0.99
  2. Infrastructure for the agentic era1.00
  3. So how do you prove it works? You simulate it.1.00
  4. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 21·sharpness 1641.8

  1. SANDBOX TOWN1.00
  2. NandaTown1.00
  3. A simulation playbook for the infrastructure1.00
  4. 121.00
  5. of the agentic web. The whole agent1.00
  6. economy, discovery, identity, registries,1.00
  7. protocol layers1.00
  8. messaging, coordination, modeled so you can1.00
  9. run it and watch what breaks first.0.98
  10. 61.00
  11. 21.00
  12. Don't argue about how an agent web0.99
  13. scenarios1.00
  14. agent tiers1.00
  15. should work. Spin one up and watch how1.00
  16. it behaves.0.98
  17. Open source1.00
  18. Apache 2.00.97
  19. Project NANDA1.00
  20. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 22·sharpness 728.4

  1. INSIDE THE SANDBOX0.98
  2. It's a live, running town0.99
  3. ·Streaming0.95
  4. github.com/pro1.00
  5. nandatown.projectnanda.org/agents1.00
  6. US-CA1.00
  7. 110.91
  8. Cambridge Project NANDA0.98
  9. 341.00
  10. US-MA1.00
  11. Bengaluru1.00
  12. 310.95
  13. IN1.00
  14. São Paulo0.99
  15. New York0.96
  16. 271.00
  17. US-NY1.00
  18. Tokyo1.00
  19. 241.00
  20. JP0.94
  21. London1.00
  22. 221.00
  23. UK1.00
  24. Agents, the live0.96
  25. Live feed, who's talking0.99
  26. Visualizer, replay a run, message by1.00
  27. Leaderboard, how1.00
  28. network map1.00
  29. to whom1.00
  30. message1.00
  31. protocols rank1.00
  32. projectnanda.org1.00
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  shot 23·sharpness 778.7

  1. WHAT WE'VE BEEN RUNNING1.00
  2. Set up a1.00
  3. Experiments, already live1.00
  4. agents, get0.96
  5. nandatown.projectnanda.org/experiments1.00
  6. II0.67
  7. MARKETPLACE1.00
  8. 100 ADENTS0.85
  9. AUCTTON0.95
  10. VOTING0.97
  11. 22 AGENTS0.92
  12. CONSENSUS1.00
  13. T AGENTE0.87
  14. SUPOLY CHAIN0.96
  15. AGENTO0.98
  16. Marketplace: 100 Agents0.98
  17. Auction: 50 Bidders1.00
  18. Voting: Proposal & Election0.99
  19. Quorum Consensus: 7 Nodes1.00
  20. Supply Chain: 4-Hop Pipeline1.00
  21. 50 buyers and 50 sellers negotiate prices.0.98
  22. An auctioneer posts items; 49 bidders0.98
  23. A proposer submits topics, 20 voters cast1.00
  24. A leader proposes values; followers vote to0.98
  25. Goods move from supller to manufacturer0.98
  26. Buyers make offers; sellers accept or reject.0.99
  27. compete. The highest bid wins each round.0.98
  28. yes/no ballots, and a coordinator counts the1.00
  29. commit or abort. The value is committed0.99
  30. to distributor to retailer. Each hop processes0.99
  31. Tests how well agents find fair prices witho.0.98
  32. Tests whether agents settle on fair prices...0.97
  33. results. Tests simple group decision-making.1.00
  34. when enough votes agree. Tests leader-..0.99
  35. and passes ther on. Tests whether the..0.99
  36. 100%1.00
  37. DELIVERY0.89
  38. 2.lt0.79
  39. LATENCE0.83
  40. 2,2001.00
  41. 100%1.00
  42. L8t0.98
  43. LATENDY0.77
  44. 1,8501.00
  45. 100%1.00
  46. BELIVERY0.81
  47. 1.2t0.85
  48. LATEUDY0.78
  49. 9801.00
  50. 100%0.90
  51. DELOVERY0.89
  52. It0.93
  53. LATENCY0.96
  54. UGOE0.57
  55. 4201.00
  56. 100%1.00
  57. DELTVERY0.65
  58. 440.83
  59. 3401.00
  60. View detalis↓0.95
  61. Visualize →0.90
  62. View detalls ↓0.94
  63. Visualize →0.84
  64. View detalls0.94
  65. Visualze →0.82
  66. View details↓0.96
  67. Visualize →0.90
  68. View detalls↓0.93
  69. Visualize→0.88
  70. projectnanda.org1.00

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