It increasingly feels like we are in for a Cambrian explosion of AI agents in the coming months. The purported Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI Spud model performance is off the charts. But one challenge remains: We need to start de-humanizing the web.

The internet, software, and the authentication infrastructure that gates it, is currently constructed for humans. That creates barriers for agents (or more specifically, agent developers). MFA, 2-factor, captchas, and so many more are all methods built with humans at their center.

Gradient portfolio company, Anchor Browser, recently launched OmniConnect to manage end-to-end authentication for agents on behalf of developers. This is a huge step in making the web more traversable for agents, particularly agents that need to access high value data that sits behind complex authentication flows