Tools & Platforms
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Agent Skills
Agent Skills is an open standard, published by Anthropic in December 2025, for packaging reusable instructions and resources that AI agents load on demand.
AI Browser
An AI browser is a web browser with a generative AI assistant built in, able to answer questions about the page a user is viewing and, in agent mode, carry out multi-step tasks such as research, form-filling and shopping.
AI Observability
AI observability is the practice of monitoring, tracing and evaluating AI model calls in production, giving teams visibility into prompts, retrievals, tool calls, costs and failures.
Amazon Q Developer
Amazon Q Developer is the AI coding assistant from Amazon Web Services, launched in 2023 and now being wound down in favour of AWS's Kiro agentic development environment.
Arm Holdings
Arm Holdings is a British semiconductor design company that licenses processor architectures to chipmakers worldwide, and whose designs are found in the overwhelming majority of the world's smartphones.
ASML
ASML Holding N.V. is a Dutch manufacturer of photolithography systems and the world's only supplier of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, the equipment used to print the most advanced semiconductor chips.
AWS Trainium
AWS Trainium is Amazon Web Services' family of purpose-built AI accelerator chips for training and serving large models, positioned as a lower-cost alternative to general-purpose GPUs.
Baidu AI
Baidu AI is the artificial intelligence portfolio of China's dominant search engine, built around the ERNIE family of large language models, cloud services and autonomous-driving technology.
Black Forest Labs
Black Forest Labs is a German AI laboratory founded in 2024 by researchers behind latent diffusion, best known for the FLUX family of image and video generation models.
Broadcom
Broadcom is a US semiconductor and software company that designs custom AI accelerators (XPUs) and networking chips for hyperscalers, making it the principal merchant alternative to NVIDIA for AI silicon.
Canva
Canva is an Australian visual communication platform whose Magic Studio artificial intelligence suite — image and video generation, writing assistance and design automation — is used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
CapCut
CapCut is ByteDance's video editing application, known in China as JianYing, whose AI-assisted editing and generative video features are used by creators worldwide.
Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lets developers delegate software engineering tasks — reading code, editing files, running commands and testing — to the Claude language model from the terminal.
Cline
Cline is a free, open-source AI coding agent that runs in code editors, terminals and as an SDK, able to read and write files, execute commands and browse the web with human approval, using any large language model the user chooses.
ComfyUI
ComfyUI is a free and open-source node-based interface for diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion and Flux, widely used for image, video and audio generation workflows.
CoreWeave
CoreWeave is a US neocloud provider that rents NVIDIA GPU clusters optimised for AI training and inference, positioned as a specialised alternative to hyperscaler cloud platforms.
Coze
Coze is a no-code platform for building AI agents and chatbots, developed by ByteDance, that lets users create, customise and publish conversational assistants to messaging channels without writing code.
d-Matrix
d-Matrix is a Santa Clara AI chip company focused on inference, using in-memory dataflow compute to serve generative AI workloads more cheaply than GPUs.
Databricks
Databricks is an American data and artificial intelligence company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, known for its lakehouse platform and valued at US$188 billion as of July 2026.
Devin (AI Software Engineer)
Devin is an autonomous AI software engineering agent built by Cognition AI that plans and completes coding tasks — writing, testing and deploying software inside its own sandboxed environment.
Figma Make
Figma Make is Figma's AI app builder that turns natural-language prompts and existing design frames into working, editable web applications.
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI is an American AI infrastructure company that operates a high-performance inference cloud for running open-weight language, image and embedding models at production scale.
G42
G42 is an Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence holding company whose subsidiaries build sovereign cloud infrastructure, enterprise AI products and Arabic-language models.
Gemini CLI
Google's open-source terminal AI agent that brings the Gemini models into the command line for coding, file editing, research and automation, with a generous free tier and MCP support.
GGUF
GGUF (GPT-Generated Unified Format) is a single-file binary format for storing and running quantised large language models, used by llama.cpp, Ollama and other local inference tools.
Google Colab
Google Colab is a free cloud-hosted Jupyter notebook environment from Google that runs Python in the browser with access to GPUs and TPUs, widely used for machine learning education and prototyping.
Gradio
Gradio is an open-source Python library for building and sharing web interfaces for machine-learning models and data applications, maintained by Hugging Face since 2021.
Ideogram
Ideogram is a Toronto-based generative AI company whose image models are known for accurately rendering readable text and typography inside generated images.
Inflection AI
Inflection AI is a US artificial intelligence company known for the Pi chatbot, which lost most of its team to Microsoft in 2024 and pivoted to enterprise AI models and APIs.
Kaggle
Kaggle is a Google-owned platform for data science competitions, public datasets and cloud notebooks that has grown into one of the world's largest machine learning communities.
Kilo Code
Kilo Code is a free, open-source AI coding agent that runs inside VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, the terminal and the cloud, and works with hundreds of language models through a single model-agnostic interface.
Lambda
Lambda is a United States AI cloud company that rents NVIDIA GPU instances, clusters and supercomputers to AI developers, and is one of the largest independent neocloud providers ahead of a planned initial public offering.
llama.cpp
llama.cpp is an open-source C/C++ inference engine that runs quantised large language models on everyday hardware — from laptops and phones to servers — and underpins many popular local AI tools.
Manus (AI Agent)
Manus is an autonomous AI agent developed by Butterfly Effect that carries out multi-step tasks such as research, data analysis and software creation, and became one of the most closely watched products of the agentic AI wave after its 2025 launch.
Modal
Modal is a serverless cloud platform that lets developers run GPUs, batch jobs, model inference and AI agents from ordinary Python code, billed per second.
n8n
n8n is a source-available workflow automation platform from Berlin that combines a visual editor with custom code and native AI capabilities, valued at US$5.2 billion after SAP's 2026 investment.
NVIDIA DGX
NVIDIA DGX is NVIDIA's line of purpose-built AI supercomputers — from the 2016 DGX-1 through the Blackwell generation and the desktop-scale DGX Spark — used for training and running large AI models.
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI Codex is a software engineering agent from OpenAI that writes code, reviews pull requests and completes engineering tasks in cloud sandboxes, across the CLI, code editors and ChatGPT.
OpenClaw
A free, open-source autonomous AI assistant that runs on the user's own machine and operates through messaging platforms and native desktop and mobile apps.
OpenHands
OpenHands is an open-source autonomous software development agent platform, originally launched as OpenDevin, that lets AI agents write code, run commands and browse the web inside a sandbox to complete engineering tasks end to end.
OpenRouter
OpenRouter is an AI model gateway that gives developers a single API and billing account for hundreds of language models from dozens of providers, with automatic routing and fallback between them.
Oracle AI
Oracle AI is Oracle Corporation's artificial-intelligence strategy spanning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure GPU capacity, managed generative-AI services, and large-scale data-centre partnerships such as the Stargate programme with OpenAI.
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is an American semiconductor and telecommunications company that designs Snapdragon system-on-chips, cellular modems and neural processing units for phones, laptops, cars and connected devices, and holds a foundational portfolio of cellular patents.
Replicate
Replicate is a cloud platform that lets developers run and fine-tune machine learning models through a single API, acquired by Cloudflare in December 2025.
ROCm
ROCm is AMD's free and open-source software platform for GPU computing, providing compilers, libraries and runtimes that enable AI and high-performance computing workloads on AMD Instinct accelerators.
Samsung AI
Samsung AI is the artificial intelligence effort of the South Korean electronics conglomerate, spanning the on-device Gauss models, the Galaxy AI feature suite and AI-oriented memory chips.
SK Hynix
SK Hynix is a South Korean memory-chip maker and the leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory, the stacked DRAM that AI accelerators such as NVIDIA GPUs depend on.
Smart Glasses
Smart glasses are wearable computers built into eyeglass frames that combine cameras, speakers and microphones with an AI assistant — a category revived by Ray-Ban Meta and now expanding into display models and rival platforms.
Tabnine
Tabnine is an enterprise AI code assistant, founded in Tel Aviv in 2013 as Codota, known for privacy-first deployment and acquired by Tricentis in 2026.
Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab is a San Francisco AI startup founded in 2025 by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, known for a record $2 billion seed round, the Tinker fine-tuning platform and the open-weight Inkling model.
Trae (software)
Trae is an AI-native integrated development environment built by ByteDance, pairing a VS Code-derived editor with agentic coding modes that plan, edit and run projects from natural-language instructions.
Triton (compiler)
Triton is an open-source Python-based domain-specific language and compiler that lets developers write high-performance GPU kernels without writing CUDA by hand.
World Labs
World Labs is a spatial intelligence company founded by Fei-Fei Li that builds world models generating persistent, navigable 3D environments, and is being acquired by AMD.