Agents

A quick map of the agent landscape I keep an eye on — free frameworks you bring your own LLM to, and paid platforms that come with the model and infrastructure managed for you.

Free

Bring your own LLM

HermesNous Research’s open-weight model family, tuned for agentic tool use.Open-weight model

OpenClawOpen-source agent framework for wiring up tools, memory, and browsing loops.Open-source framework

LangChainCompose chains, tools, and memory around any model you choose to host.BYOLLM · Open-source

Paid

Managed platforms

Copilot StudioMicrosoft’s low-code studio for building and governing enterprise copilots.Microsoft

Azure AI FoundryEnd-to-end platform to build, evaluate, and deploy agents on Azure.Microsoft Azure

Microsoft 365 CopilotAgents embedded across Word, Excel, Teams, and Outlook.Microsoft 365

OpenAI Assistants / GPTsHosted agent runtime with tools, retrieval, and code interpreter built in.OpenAI

AWS Bedrock AgentsManaged agent orchestration across foundation models on AWS.Amazon Web Services

Salesforce AgentforceAutonomous agents built into the Salesforce platform and data.Salesforce