AI Market Atlas
by Pro PluribusEvery vendor ships the same few capabilities under different names. Read across a row to translate. A dash means no first-party equivalent today; amber marks retired or retiring items.
Across the major vendors
21 functions| Function | Anthropic | OpenAI | xAI | Microsoft | Meta | Amazon | Others | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flagship model | Fable 5.1 · Opus 5.5 | GPT-6 Astra · 6.1 Sol | Gemini 4 Argon | Grok 4.7 | MAI-Thinking-1 (+ OpenAI, Claude) | Muse Spark · Wonder | Nova 2 Pro | DeepSeek V4.1 · Kimi K3 · MiMo-V2.6 |
| Packaged know-howreusable instructions, tools and templates | Skills | Plugins (Custom GPTs retire 11 Dec) | Skills (Gems retire 17 Nov) | — | Copilot Studio agents · shared skills | — | Quick Suite agents | Agent Skills standard: Cursor, Copilot, Kiro… |
| Workspace with persistent contextfiles + instructions + memory | Projects | Projects | Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) | — | Copilot Notebooks | — | — | Notion AI |
| Side-by-side canvasedit a doc or app next to chat | Artifacts · Docs · Slides | Canvas | Canvas | — | Copilot Pages | — | — | — |
| Prompt to hosted site or app | Published Artifacts | Sites | AI Studio Build · Opal | — | — | — | — | Lovable · Replit · Bolt · v0 |
| Design and prototyping | Claude Design | — | Stitch | — | — | — | — | Figma Make |
| Work agentlong-running, delivers finished files | Cowork (inside Claude) | ChatGPT Work | Gemini Agent | Grok Bot | Copilot Cowork | Muse agent | Quick Suite | Manus · Genspark |
| Always-on agent with its own computer | Cowork scheduled tasks · Managed Agents | Work + always-on agents | Task mode (formerly Spark) | Grok Bot | Autopilot | Muse (secure VM) | — | Instinct · Tab · OpenClaw · Hermes |
| Browser agent | Claude in Chrome | ChatGPT built-in browser (Atlas retired) | Gemini in Chrome (Mariner retired) | — | Copilot in Edge † | Muse browser | Nova Act | Comet · Dia · Opera Neon |
| Terminal coding agent | Claude Code | Codex CLI | Antigravity CLI (Gemini CLI and Code Assist retired) | Grok Build | Copilot CLI | Muse Code | Kiro CLI | OpenCode · Amp · Cline |
| Cloud agent that returns pull requests | Claude Code on the web | Codex cloud | Jules | Cursor cloud agents | Copilot coding agent | — | Kiro (web) | Devin · Factory Droids |
| Agent-first IDE or desktop | Claude Code desktop | Codex app | Antigravity | Cursor | VS Code agent mode · Copilot app | — | Kiro IDE | Devin Desktop · Zed · Warp |
| Plugin marketplace | Claude Marketplace | OpenAI Marketplace · Plugin Directory | — | — | — | — | AWS Marketplace (AI agents) | Cursor Origin marketplace |
| Connect tools and data | Connectors (MCP) | Plugins / Apps SDK (built on MCP) | Extensions · Workspace MCP | — | Copilot connectors (MCP) | — | AgentCore Gateway (MCP) | Zapier · n8n integrations |
| Team agent in chat apps | Claude Tag (Slack) | Plugins for Slack / Teams | Gemini in Chat | Grok in X | Copilot in Teams | Meta AI in WhatsApp | — | — |
| Deep research | Research | Deep research | Deep Research | DeepSearch † | Researcher agent | — | — | Perplexity Deep Research |
| Office add-ins | Claude for Excel · Word · PowerPoint | — | Gemini in Docs · Sheets · Slides | — | M365 Copilot (native) | — | — | — |
| Build your own agents (developers) | Agent SDK · Managed Agents | Agents SDK · Frontier | ADK · Agent Platform | — | Foundry · Agent Framework | — | Bedrock AgentCore | LangGraph · CrewAI |
| Image generation | — | GPT Image 2.5 | Nano Banana 2 / Pro | Grok Imagine | MAI-Image-2.5 | Muse Image | Nova Canvas (retiring) | Midjourney · FLUX |
| Video generation | — | — (Sora shut down) | Gemini Omni · Veo 3.1 · Flow | Grok Imagine | — | Muse Video · Vibes | Nova Reel (retiring) | Kling · Seedance · Runway |
| Open-weight models | — | gpt-oss | Gemma 4 | — | Phi-4 | Muse Glimmer · Llama 4 | — | DeepSeek · Qwen · Kimi · Mistral |
Inside the coding tools
The developer tools copy each other quickly, often under a new name.
Project instruction file
The file an agent reads first to learn your codebase's rules.
CLAUDE.md (Claude Code) · AGENTS.md (Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Jules, Amp, OpenCode; now an open standard) · .cursor/rules · GEMINI.md · .clinerules · .kiro/steering · copilot-instructions.md
Reusable skills
Packaged instructions plus scripts, loaded when needed.
SKILL.md Agent Skills (Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Antigravity, Kiro, goose) · Kiro Powers · Plugins (Claude Code, Codex, Copilot) · OpenClaw skills · Hermes self-written skills
Plan before acting
The agent proposes a plan and waits for approval.
Plan Mode (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) · Plan/Act (Cline) · Spec mode (Kiro) · Planning mode (Antigravity) · Architect / Orchestrator (Kilo) · deep mode (Amp)
Background / cloud agents
Tasks that keep running remotely while you work.
Cursor Cloud Agents · Codex cloud · Copilot coding agent · Jules · Devin · Claude Code on the web · Factory Droids · Warp Oz · Replit parallel agents
Multi-agent dashboard
One screen to supervise many agents.
Devin Desktop Kanban · Cursor Agents view · Codex app · Antigravity Agent Manager · Copilot Agent HQ · Kilo Agent Manager
Subagents
A main agent delegates pieces to helper agents.
Claude subagents · Antigravity subagents · OpenCode / Kilo subagents · ADK sub-agents · CrewAI crews
Hooks
Your scripts run automatically at set points in the agent's work.
Claude Code hooks · Cursor hooks · Kiro agent hooks · Antigravity hooks
Scheduled work
Agents that run on a timer.
Codex automations · Claude scheduled tasks · ChatGPT scheduled tasks · OpenClaw heartbeat · n8n / Zapier triggers
The three protocols
Different jobs, easily confused.
MCP: agent ↔ tools and data. A2A: agent ↔ agent. ACP: agent ↔ code editor.
Compiled from public sources by Pro Pluribus; updated 16 Oct 2026. General information, not advice. Company names and logos belong to their owners and are used to identify them, without affiliation or endorsement. Terms