Chinese AI giants, start-ups ready for the agentic web era

The agentic web era has arrived, and Chinese companies are going all in. Humans were overtaken last month by artificial intelligence (AI) agents and AI bots as the majority users of the internet, data from global network company Cloudflare shows. By early July, agents and bots accounted for more than 60 per cent of web traffic. Even Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince expressed surprise in a post on X, having initially forecast AI agent-driven web use would pass the 50 per cent mark only in late 2027.