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The Rise of CaaS: Context-as-a-Service for Agentic AI — Omer Primor, Bright Data

AI Engineer · Aug 14, 2026 · Industry Trends

Bright Data proposes 'Context-as-a-Service' as a new infrastructure category for agentic AI web access.

“The web is no longer just a source of data. We can actually start looking at it as a source of context.”

Bright Data's product marketing lead argues that as AI agents need to perform knowledge work, web data must be reframed from a static data source into dynamic, real-time 'context.' He introduces 'Context-as-a-Service' as an emerging infrastructure category serving this need. The talk is largely a vendor positioning exercise, but the CaaS framing reflects a real architectural shift in how agentic systems consume web information.

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