Agent Platform Scorecard

Who is building the agent operating system?

Twelve dimensions across seven providers. Re-graded as announcements land, with the market's reaction shown alongside.

xAI · Agent Capability

Can it actually do work? · updated 2026-06-01

Agentic features are emerging but unproven relative to the leaders.

Field average: 6.6Dimension leader: Anthropic (9)

What this measures

Can the system take a goal and complete multi-step work autonomously (browse, write code, operate tools, recover from errors), not just answer questions? Measures shipped agentic behavior, not demos.

Across the web

Primary
Grok 4.1 Fast and Agent Tools API
xAI
xAI's Agent Tools API (server-side search, code execution, MCP connectors), positioning Grok for agentic tool-calling.

Agent Capability across the field

Anthropic9
OpenAI8
Google7
Microsoft7
Apple5
Meta5
xAI5