Baidu Cloud Unveils Industry Agent OS, Says Agents to Absorb Up to Half of Enterprise Tasks

The striking part is not the agent OS itself but the ambition of the claim: Baidu is arguing agents move from tools to internalized labor across routine, professional and core work, with the last category framed as the largest share. That reframes competition around who owns the orchestration layer — general, professional and custom agents coordinated and held accountable for results — rather than any single model. The open question is whether vendors can make 'result-accountable' concrete enough for enterprises to trust core tasks to it, and whether rival clouds answer with comparable stacks.