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id: "entity-adept-act-1"
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canonicalName: "ACT-1"
aliases: ["Adept.ai ACT-1", "Adept ACT-1"]
source_timestamps: ["§ The Everything Engine Needs Your Data"]
tags: ["ai-model", "lam"]
related: ["concept-large-action-models"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-foci-73-living-intelligence"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/01/why-living-intelligence-is-the-next-big-thing"
sourceTitle: "Why “Living Intelligence” Is the Next Big Thing"
---
# Adept.ai ACT-1

**ACT-1** (from **Adept**, an early company focused on agentic software action) is cited alongside [[entity-anthropic-claude-d2|Anthropic's Claude]] as an early example of a [[concept-large-action-models|Large Action Model (LAM)]] optimized for task execution — interacting directly with digital tools and software applications on behalf of users.

**Role in this source:** Evidence that AI systems can *operate software applications by taking actions*, not just generate text.

> *Enrichment note:* Per independent research, **ACT-1 is the cleaner example** of the extraction's "task execution" idea than Claude — it was explicitly designed as an action-oriented system that operates software on a user's behalf.

> *Canonical reference (enrichment):* Adept's official site and ACT-1 announcements/demos.