At a Glance · AI-generated

Over nearly three years, developers gained increasingly sophisticated tools for building AI agents. OpenAI introduced function calling capabilities in June 2023, establishing foundational API features for agent development. By early 2026, the ecosystem expanded significantly with Andrej Karpathy's Autoresearch tool enabling autonomous ML experiments on consumer GPUs, Andrew Ng's Context Hub providing agents with current API documentation, and JetBrains launching a dedicated AI agent IDE. These releases reflected growing practical adoption of AI agents across research and software development workflows.