Coming into focus: the State of the AI Agent Ecosystem in March 2025

OpenAI dropped an agent release today, Claude's MCP is going nuts, and I figured it was time for an overview of players in the AI agent ecosystem—who's hot, who's not, and what do we build with them?

I just wrote on MCP earlier this week, but AI waits for no one and OpenAI released a new AI Agents ecosystem designed to compete with MCP this morning. So I figured it was time to write an overview of where we are on AI agents in the first quarter of 2025. Is the tooling there for 2025 to be the year of AI agents? How should we think about AI ecosystem …