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25. Vendor and Model Ecosystem

The actual organizations and product families in the market. Children are providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, Cohere, xAI, Perplexity) plus the local/open ecosystem (LM Studio, Ollama, llama.cpp, vLLM, Hugging Face). The organizing axis is who ships the models and on what terms — closed/frontier vs open-weight/local. This is the concrete, fast-moving layer that instantiates the abstract categories above; expect heavy churn here.

Children

  • OpenAI
  • GPT
  • reasoning models
  • embeddings
  • multimodal models
  • Agents SDK
  • Deep Research
  • Anthropic
  • Claude Opus
  • Claude Sonnet
  • Claude Haiku
  • extended thinking
  • computer use
  • Google
  • Gemini
  • Gemma
  • Vertex AI
  • ADK
  • Meta
  • Llama
  • open-weight models
  • Mistral
  • DeepSeek
  • Cohere
  • xAI
  • Perplexity
  • local / open ecosystem
  • LM Studio
  • Ollama
  • llama.cpp
  • vLLM
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • OpenClaw
    • self-hosted personal AI assistant
    • gateway / control plane
    • chat app integrations
    • coding-agent integration
    • local-device operation
    • automation workflows
    • plugin / skill ecosystem