LLMs12

Agent tools18

Chains & settlement12

Agent commerce14

Merchant & product data
Agent-to-agent markets
Tool & API marketplaces

Identity, risk & evals11

Finance agents13

The list

LLMs12

Frontier labs (closed)

OpenAI
AI lab building GPT models, ChatGPT and the developer API
San Francisco
Anthropic
Frontier AI lab building the Claude models and agent tooling
Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown, Chris Olah, Jack Clark
San Francisco
xAI
Grok models and API; now SpaceX's AI division
Palo Alto
Thinking Machines Lab
AI lab building models and the Tinker fine-tuning API
Mira Murati, John Schulman, Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, Andrew Tulloch
San Francisco

US/EU open-weight labs

Mistral AI
Open-weight and commercial LLMs, agents API and AI compute
Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix
Paris, France
Nous Research
Open-source Hermes models and decentralized training
Jeffrey Quesnelle, Karan Malhotra, Teknium, Shivani Mitra
Reflection AI
Open frontier models for autonomous coding and agents
Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou
New York

China open-weight labs

DeepSeek
Open-weight LLMs and low-cost model API
Liang Wenfeng
Hangzhou, China
Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight Qwen model family and API
Hangzhou, China
Moonshot AI
Kimi open-weight models built for long-context agentic work
Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, Wu Yuxin
Beijing, China
Z.ai
GLM open-weight models and agent coding plans (formerly Zhipu AI)
Tang Jie
Beijing, China
MiniMax
Multimodal foundation models for text, speech, video and agents
Yan Junjie, Yang Bin, Zhou Yucong
Shanghai, China

Agents28

Consumer agents

ChatGPT
Assistant whose agent and merchant apps complete purchases for users
San Francisco
Google AI Mode & Gemini
Agentic checkout in Search AI Mode; Gemini app checkout announced
Mountain View
Muse
Meta's personal agent that books travel, shops and checks out for users
Menlo Park
Amazon
Alexa for Shopping and Buy for Me complete purchases, including off-Amazon
Seattle
Microsoft Copilot
Copilot Checkout lets users buy from merchants inside the chat
Redmond
Perplexity
Answer engine and Comet browser that check out purchases in chat
San Francisco
Manus
General-purpose autonomous agent for research, building and multi-step tasks
Xiao Hong
Singapore
Opera Neon
Agentic browser whose Browser Operator fills forms, books and shops
Oslo, Norway
ASI:One
Personal AI that pays for bookings and purchases via Visa or USDC
Phia
AI shopping agent that compares prices across retail sites
Phoebe Gates, Sophia Kianni
New York

Open-source agents & frameworks

OpenClaw
Open-source personal agent that acts through chat apps on your machine
Hermes Agent
Nous Research's open-source, self-improving agent for chat apps and terminal
elizaOS
Open-source TypeScript agent framework with EVM and Solana wallet operations
LangChain
Agent framework plus LangSmith for tracing, evals and deployment
Harrison Chase, Ankush Gola
San Francisco
Solana Agent Kit
Open-source toolkit letting any agent sign and send Solana transactions
Vincent
Lit Protocol framework for user-controlled agent wallets with policies
ZerePy
Python agent framework with Solana and EVM transfer and swap actions

Coding & work agents

Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE and web
San Francisco
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI's coding agent for cloud, terminal and IDE
San Francisco
Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents from Anysphere
Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark
San Francisco
Replit Agent
Coding agent that builds, provisions and deploys apps on usage billing
Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, Haya Odeh
Foster City
Lovable
App-building agent that auto-enables paid backend and AI usage
Anton Osika, Fabian Hedin
Stockholm, Sweden

Onchain & trading agents

Virtuals Protocol
Agent Commerce Protocol where AI agents hire and pay other agents
Jansen Teng, Wee Kee Tiew
HeyElsa
Crypto copilot that swaps, bridges and trades from chat
Bankr
Agent wallets that trade and pay x402 endpoints
Pearl
Desktop agent store; self-custodial agents trade and pay other agents
Wayfinder
Crypto agent that trades spot, perps and prediction markets
Hey Anon
DeFi agent that bridges, swaps, stakes and borrows from chat

Inference & gateways14

Inference clouds

Together AI
Cloud for open-model inference, fine-tuning and GPU clusters
San Francisco
Fireworks AI
Fast inference and fine-tuning platform for open models
Lin Qiao, Dmytro Dzhulgakov, Benny Chen, Chenyu Zhao, Dmytro Ivchenko, James Reed, Pawel Garbacki
Redwood City
Baseten
Inference platform for deploying and serving AI models
San Francisco
Groq
GroqCloud low-latency inference on custom LPU chips
Jonathan Ross, Douglas Wightman
Mountain View
Cerebras
Wafer-scale AI chips and a fast inference cloud
Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie, Jean-Philippe Fricker
Sunnyvale
Nebius
AI cloud and Token Factory inference platform
Arkady Volozh
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Routers & gateways

OpenRouter
Unified API and router across hundreds of AI models (Stripe acquiring)
Vercel AI Gateway
One API and key for hundreds of models, billed from prepaid credits
San Francisco
Cloudflare
AI Gateway plus x402 agent payments, pay-per-crawl and NET Dollar
San Francisco
BlockRun
Gateway where agents pay per request for models, data and tools
Austin
LiteLLM
Open-source LLM gateway with cost tracking and spend limits
Portkey
AI gateway for routing, governance and cost control (now Palo Alto Networks)
Rohit Agarwal, Ayush Garg
Martian
Model router and gateway that picks a model per request
Etan Ginsberg, Shriyash Upadhyay
Not Diamond
Model routing that recommends the right LLM per query
Tomás Kofman, Tze-Yang Tung, Jeffrey Akiki

Agent tools18

GPU & compute

CoreWeave
Public AI hyperscaler renting large NVIDIA GPU clusters (Nasdaq: CRWV)
Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, Brannin McBee, Peter Salanki
Livingston
Lambda
GPU cloud and AI factories for training and inference
Stephen Balaban, Michael Balaban
San Francisco
Prime Intellect
Decentralized compute, RL environments hub and open model training
San Francisco

Sandboxes & runtimes

E2B
Open-source cloud sandboxes for AI agents to run code
Daytona
Stateful sandboxes that give AI agents their own computers
San Francisco
Modal
Serverless GPUs and sandboxes for running agent code
Erik Bernhardsson, Akshat Bubna
New York

Browsers & computer use

Browserbase
Headless browser infrastructure for AI agents
Browser Use
Open-source browser agent and cloud browsers for AI agents
San Francisco

Search & data APIs

Exa
Web search API built for AI agents
Parallel Web Systems
Web search and research APIs built on an index for AI agents
Parag Agrawal, Travers Nisbet
Palo Alto
Firecrawl
API that turns websites into LLM-ready data via scrape, crawl, search
San Francisco
Tavily
Search, extract and crawl APIs for AI agents (now part of Nebius)
New York
Predexon
Unified data and trading API for prediction markets
Larry Pang
You.com
Web search and research APIs for AI agents
Richard Socher, Bryan McCann
Palo Alto

Tool & MCP marketplaces

Composio
Tool and integration catalog that connects AI agents to apps
San Francisco
Smithery
Registry and hosting platform for MCP servers (now part of Arcade.dev)
Arcade.dev
Tool runtime with auth and policy for AI agents; owns Smithery
Glama
MCP server registry, inspector, hosting and gateway

Chains & settlement12

Chains

Base
Coinbase-built Ethereum L2 for payments, trading and agent wallets
Solana
High-throughput chain; Pay.sh agent API payments launched with Google
Zug, Switzerland
Arc
Circle's stablecoin-native chain and settlement network, with agent tooling
Tempo
Payments blockchain for stablecoins, co-author of Machine Payments Protocol
Kite AI
Layer-1 blockchain with identity and stablecoin payments for AI agents
San Francisco

Agent payment protocols & facilitators

Coinbase
x402 protocol, agent wallets and developer platform for onchain payments
Remote
Stripe
Payments platform behind Agentic Commerce Protocol and Machine Payments Protocol
San Francisco
AP2
Open agent payments protocol extending A2A, originated at Google
PayAI
x402 payment facilitator settling stablecoin payments on Solana and EVM
thirdweb
Web3 developer platform with an x402 facilitator and agent payments API
Daydreams
Open-source agent commerce framework with x402 router and facilitator
Questflow
Multi-agent orchestration with x402 facilitator and agent wallets

Payments & wallets31

Agent wallets & keys

Privy
Embedded and agent wallets with spending guardrails (now part of Stripe)
Henri Stern
Fireblocks
Digital asset infrastructure with agent wallets and agentic payments gateway
MoonPay
Crypto on-ramp with non-custodial wallets and cards for AI agents
Ivan Soto-Wright, Victor Faramond, Maximilian Crown
Miami
Turnkey
Secure-enclave wallet infrastructure with policy-scoped wallets for AI agents
Bryce Ferguson, Jack Kearney
New York
Crossmint
Wallets, stablecoin payments and agentic card APIs for AI agents
Rodri Fernandez, Alfonso Gomez-Jordana
Para
MPC embedded and server wallets, including wallets for AI agents
Nitya Subramanian, David Gobaud
San Francisco
Openfort
Wallet infrastructure with policy-controlled server wallets for agents
Joan Alavedra, Jaume Alavedra
Merit Systems
x402scan, MPPscan and AgentCash wallet for agent payments
Locus
USDC wallets and spending controls for AI agents on Base
Cole Dermott, Eliot Lee
San Francisco

Cards & networks

Visa
Card network with Intelligent Commerce and Trusted Agent Protocol
San Francisco
Mastercard
Card network with Agent Pay and agentic tokens for AI purchases
Purchase
American Express
Card network with agent registration, tokenized credentials and purchase protection
New York
Ramp
Corporate spend platform with agent cards and x402 payments for AI agents
Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Gene Lee
New York
Rain
Stablecoin card issuing with scoped cards and controls for AI agents
Farooq Malik
Basis Theory
Card tokenization vault issuing scoped payment credentials to AI agents
Colin Luce
Nekuda
Agentic payments SDK for card credentials and purchase authorization
New York

Agent banking & accounts

Anchorage Digital
Federally chartered crypto bank offering agentic banking for AI agents
Nathan McCauley, Diogo Mónica
San Francisco
zerohash
Agentic Finance Suite for agents to hold, move and stream money
Edward Woodford
Chicago
Catena Labs
Governance and banking platform for AI agents
Sean Neville, Matt Venables
Natural
Wallets, payments, cards and billing APIs built for AI agents
Kahlil Lalji, Eric Wang, Walt Leung
San Francisco
Payman
AI agents that handle money movement for banks and credit unions
Tyllen Bicakcic
New York
ATXP
Agent accounts with identity, payments and tools (by Circuit & Chisel)
Louis Amira, David Noël-Romas

Payment APIs

PayPal
Agentic commerce services letting merchants accept payments from AI agents
San Jose
Amazon Web Services
Bedrock AgentCore Payments lets agents pay for APIs via x402
Seattle
Adyen
Payments platform with Adyen Agentic APIs for agent-initiated checkout
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Checkout.com
Payment processor supporting agentic commerce protocols and agent credentials
Guillaume Pousaz
London, UK
Lightspark
Bitcoin Lightning and Grid payment accounts with AI agent controls
Skyfire
Identity, wallets and payments infrastructure for AI agents
Amir Sarhangi, Craig DeWitt
Sapiom
Payment, spend control and routing infrastructure for AI agents
Ilan Zerbib
San Francisco
Nevermined
Payment rails and billing that let AI agents pay and get paid
Don Gossen, Aitor Argomaniz
Halliday
Agentic workflow protocol and onchain payments with programmable guardrails
Griffin Dunaif

Agent commerce14

Agentic checkout & shopping

Shopify
Commerce platform with agentic storefronts and the Universal Commerce Protocol
Ottawa, Canada
Klarna
Payments and shopping network adding agentic shopping search and UCP support
Stockholm, Sweden
commercetools
Commerce platform with an MCP agent gateway and agentic add-on
Munich, Germany
Rye
Universal checkout API that lets AI agents buy from online stores
Arjun Bhargava, Justin Kan
Firmly
Merchant network that lets AI agents and publishers complete checkout
Kumar Senthil
Seattle
Henry Labs
Checkout SDK, product data and universal cart for agentic commerce
Philip Qiu

Merchant & product data

Channel3
Product search API and catalog for AI shopping agents
Alexander Schiff, George Lawrence
New York
Catalog
Product data API that normalizes retailer pages for shopping agents
Hamish Gunasekara, Dylan Farrell
San Francisco
ReFiBuy
Prepares brand and retailer catalogs for AI shopping agents
Scot Wingo
Raleigh

Agent-to-agent markets

Fetch.ai
Agentverse directory and marketplace for discovering and connecting AI agents
Olas
Mech Marketplace where autonomous agents hire each other for tasks
David Minarsch, David Galindo
Zug, Switzerland

Tool & API marketplaces

BlockRun
Pay-per-call marketplace where agents buy models, data and tools
Austin
Apify
Marketplace of web data tools agents can pay for via x402
Jan Čurn, Jakub Balada
Prague, Czech Republic
treg
Registry and proxy giving agents one token for paid APIs

Identity, risk & evals11

Know-Your-Agent identity

Persona
Identity verification platform with verified-agent identity tools
Rick Song, Charles Yeh
San Francisco
World
AgentKit: proof of a unique human behind shopping and x402-paying agents
Sam Altman, Alex Blania
San Francisco
Trulioo
Global identity verification with a Know Your Agent framework
Stephen Ufford, Tanis Jorge
Vancouver, Canada
Prove
Phone-centric identity verification, including Verified Agent for AI agents
Rodger Desai, Mike Brody
New York

Fraud & risk

HUMAN Security
AgenticTrust: verifies AI agents and governs actions like checkout
Tamer Hassan, Michael Tiffany, Ash Kalb, Dan Kaminsky
New York
Forter
Fraud decisioning that verifies AI shopping agents through checkout and payment
Michael Reitblat, Liron Damri, Alon Shemesh
New York
Riskified
AI Agent Approve, Intelligence and Policy Builder for agent-placed orders
Eido Gal, Assaf Feldman
New York
Baselayer
Business identity and risk data, adding Know Your Agent checks
Jonathan Awad, Timothy Hyde
t54
Agent identity, risk checks and credit for agent payments

Benchmarks

BlockRun
Benchmark for agents that pay, get paid and move money
Austin
Microsoft Research
Magentic Marketplace: open simulation testing agents that negotiate, buy and pay
Redmond

Finance agents13

Trading agents

Nansen
Onchain analytics with an AI agent that executes crypto trades
Composer
Automated trading platform where users build strategies with AI
Ben Rollert, Ananda Aisola, Ronny Li
Catalyst
AI agents that turn investor ideas into executed trading strategies
Justin Zheng, Dylan Iskandar
San Francisco
Senpi
AI trading agent running strategies across Hyperliquid markets
COD3X
Agents trade plain-English strategies in perps, live on Hyperliquid

DeFi yield & vaults

Giza
Autonomous agents that manage DeFi yield strategies
Renç Korzay, Fran Algaba, Cem Dagdelen
Almanak
Platform for building and running AI agent DeFi strategies
Michael Herzyk, Lukas Napiorkowski, Lars Suanet
Theoriq
AI agent-managed DeFi vaults and agent coordination protocol
Ron Bodkin
Zyfai
Rule-based agents that rebalance user funds across DeFi yield
INFINIT
Marketplace of AI-managed USDC trading vaults on Hyperliquid

AI trading labs

Nof1
AI research lab benchmarking and training models on live trading
EquiLibre Technologies
Reinforcement-learning AI trading agents for equity markets
Martin Schmid
Prague, Czech Republic
Aomi Labs
Runtime turning agent intent into simulated, policy-checked onchain trades