Gen AI is primarily focused on creating content, whereas Agentic AI is centered on taking action. Gen AI generates text, images, or code, but Agentic AI can plan, decide, and execute tasks autonomously. Both are important, but Agentic AI may have a bigger impact on workflows and collaboration.

Semantics.

Dear Rahul Jain ,

The primary difference is that Generative AI creates new content, like text or images, based on patterns it learned from data, whereas Agentic AI is an autonomous system designed to take action and achieve goals without constant human guidance. Agentic AI can use Generative AI as one of its components to help it understand prompts or generate parts of its actions, but its core function is to plan, decide, and act to reach a specified objective.

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/agentic-ai-vs-generative-ai

Regards,

Shafagat

• Gen AI is like a creative person who writes or draws when you ask — but doesn’t act on its own.

• Agentic AI is like a smart assistant that not only answers but also plans and takes actions by itself to reach your goal.