The 2025 AI Agent Index

# The AI Agent Index. The 2025 AI Agent Index documents the origins, design, capabilities, ecosystem, and safety features of **30 prominent AI agents** based on publicly available information and correspondence with developers. Chat agents maintain lower autonomy (Level 1-3), browser agents operate at Level 4-5 with limited intervention, and enterprise agents move from Level 1-2 in design to Level 3-5 when deployed. ### Transparency Gap. Of the 13 agents exhibiting frontier levels of autonomy, only 4 disclose any agentic safety evaluations. Agent development concentrates in the US (21/30) and China (5/30), with markedly different approaches to safety frameworks and compliance documentation. Autonomy levels differ systematically by agent category. ### Autonomy levels differ systematically by agent category. Chat agents maintain Level 1–3 autonomy with turn-based interaction. Each agent was annotated across 45 fields of information, organised into six categories, by seven subject-matter experts, using only publicly available information and developer correspondence.

AI Agent行业深度分析

1. AI agents arrived in 2025 – here’s what happened and the …

* [Home](https://theconversation.com/us). * [Economy](https://theconversation.com/us/business). * [Education](https://theconversation.com/us/education). * [Health](https://theconversation.com/us/health). * [World](https://theconversation.com/us/world). * [Podcasts](https://theconversation.com/us/podcasts). * [Local](https://theconversation.com/us/local). [](https://theconversation.com/ai-agents-arrived-in-2025-heres-what-happened-and-the-challenges-ahead-in-2026-272325#)[](https://theconversation.com/ai-agents-arrived-in-2025-heres-what-happened-and-the-challenges-ahead-in-2026-272325#)[Skip to content](https://theconversation.com/ai-agents-arrived-in-2025-heres-what-happened-and-the-challenges-ahead-in-2026-272325#main-content). * [Canada](https://theconversation.com/ca “Canada edition”). https://theconversation.com/ai-agents-arrived-in-2025-heres-what-happened-and-the-challenges-ahead-in-2026-272325. https://theconversation.com/ai-agents-arrived-in-2025-heres-what-happened-and-the-challenges-ahead-in-2026-272325. In 2025, the definition of AI agent shifted from the [academic framing](https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/%7Erussell/aima1e/chapter02.pdf) of systems that perceive, reason and act to AI company [Anthropic’s description](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents) of large language models that are capable of using software tools and taking autonomous action. Later in the year, both [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation) and [Google](https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cloud-donates-a2a-to-linux-foundation/) donated their protocols to the open-source software nonprofit Linux Foundation, cementing them as open standards rather than p

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2. AI agents in 2025: expectations vs. reality

[](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality). But what can we realistically expect from [agentic AI](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/agentic-ai) in 2025, and how will it affect our lives? [](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality). Hay is optimistic that more robust agents are on the way: “You wouldn’t need any further progression in models today to build [future AI agents](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-evolve-rapidly),” he says. [Learn more](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-agents). [](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality). “More and better agents” are on the way, predicts Time.[1](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality#footnotes1) “Autonomous ‘agents’ and profitability are likely to dominate the artificial intelligence agenda,” reports Reuters.[2](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality#footnotes2) “The age of agentic AI has arrived,” promises Forbes, in response to a claim from Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.[3](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality#footnotes3). [](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality). [](https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-agents-2025-expectations-vs-reality). Enterprises will use AI orchestration to coordinate multiple agents and other [machine learning](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/machine-learning)(ML) models working in tandem and using specific expertise to complete tasks. AI orchestrators could easily become the backbone of enterprise AI systems this year—connecting multiple agents, optimizing [AI workflows](https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/ai-workflow) and handling multilingual and

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3. What AI AGENT You Should Build In 2025

## What AI AGENT You Should Build In 2025. A Practical Framework for Building AI Agents. Q&A on the Agentic Ecosystem. As a Product Manager, knowing what to build and how to execute is key to staying ahead. Ex- GenAI Product Lead at MAANG Level Firms l AI PM Coach. Mahesh has 20 years of experience in building products at Meta, Microsoft and AWS AI teams. Mahesh has worked in all layers of the AI stack from AI chips to LLM and has a deep understanding of how using AI agents companies ship value to customers. His work on AI has been featured in the Nvidia GTC conference, Microsoft Build, and Meta blogs. His mentorship has helped various students in building Real time products & Career in Agentic AI PM space. What AI Agents Will Dominate 2025 (And How to Build Them). Ex- GenAI Product Lead at MAANG Firms l AI PM Coach l 10k+ Alumni. Building Agentic AI Applications in 2025.

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4. The Year of AI Agents? What Really Happened in 2025 – AlphaSense

### The AlphaSense Platform. ### Enterprise Intelligence. ### Tegus Expert Insights. ### Tegus Expert Call Services. ### Why AlphaSense. ### Financial Services. ### Consulting & Professional Services. Presentation slide titled “Top Market Trends for 2026” with a list of researchers for various sectors and corresponding blue outline icons representing technology, finance, healthcare, and energy. In this report, we examine the trends and themes shaping 2026 — all based on insights surfaced from across the AlphaSense platform. # The Year of AI Agents? From shopping and travel to coding, customer service, and enterprise workflows, 2025 was expected to be the year these systems became mainstream. Instead, the story has been more nuanced: platforms launched, pilots multiplied, and adoption remained cautious as technical and trust challenges persisted. #### Sarah Hoffman, Director of AI Thought Leadership. ### Will AI Agents Join the Workforce This Year? ### AI Agents: What Experts are Saying About What’s Next. ### AI Agents and GPT-5: Measuring Progress, Gauging Impact. ### PLATFORM.

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