AI has made it way more easier for us. From information to calculation to entertainment and more, AI just covers it all. The two helping hands in our everyday lives: Horizontal AI & Vertical AI. Now, this is as simple as a portrait photograph and a landscape photograph. A portrait photograph of a lady will show the details of her eye color, clothes, body type, hairstyle, etc. While a landscape photograph covers a group of ladies playing in a pond of blue water.
- Horizontal AI Agent - AI systems capable of handling diverse tasks across various industries and domains. It’s the general go-to AI system for us.
For example, ChatGPT, your, mine, our best friend. It does calculations, drafts emails, suggests solutions, gives creative ideas, and at times, gives us mental health advice. Is there anything else in this world as flexible and adaptable as ChatGPT? I doubt. But China doesn’t. Heard of DeepSeek? It’s like that smarter cousin your parents compare you with. DeepSeek has all that the ChatGPT has and it excels in the extracurriculars too. So, DeepSeek covers even more domains- does calculations, and gives firm reasons for why it’s doing what it’s doing.
Vertical AI Agent - AI systems that excel in a single domain or industry. It makes your boring and elongated taste easier.
For example, Grammarly. No grammar Nazi can beat Grammarly due to its perfection-oriented responses. It serves various options on a platter for you to choose what’s best for you. It’s a digital garage where you get your writeups repaired. But does it serve you information regarding the monument that you visit on your vacation? No. But, Google Lens helps you with that. It identifies and analyzes the images and objects and comes up with information regarding the same.
These are the Vertical Agents that cover a particular domain. It’s like that good kid cousin of yours who just focuses on their academics and has nothing to do with the other activities happening at the school.
Horizontal and Vertical AI Agents are both saviors in their ways. It's one of humanity's greatest innovations that helps maintain stability on this rapidly rotating globe.