In contrast to the development of artificial intelligenceAgent Development Platformis a novelty. With the year 2023 being the year of generative AI, 2024 is defined as the year of theAgentIn the first year, Agent is widely recognized as an important direction for the ground-up application of AI systems.
In fact, overseas, as early as the end of 2022, the exploration of Agent development frameworks and technologies has already begun, such as LangChain launched by Harrison Chase in October 2022 and LlamaIndex went live in November 2022. ChatGPT was also released at this time.
And the domestic Agent development platform doesn't start releasing until the second half of 2023.Starting from the second half of 2023, domestic AI vendors focused on launching a series of Agent development platforms, and by 2024, some platforms comparable to foreign Agent development platforms had gradually developed. We comb through the domestic Agent development platforms according to the timeline of the platform release.
1. Dify
The Dify project was launched in March 2023 and officially went live in May 2023, while open sourcing on GitHub.The core team of Dify is mostly from the original DevOps Coding members of Tencent Cloud, and is a young team.
Dify provides two versions, namely the community version and the cloud service version. The Community Edition is open source and can be deployed on its own for use in a local environment, suitable for developers with some technical background. The cloud service version does not require local deployment, you need to have a GitHub or Google account, configure the model provider or use the provided hosted model provider to create Agent applications.
Dify focuses on the overseas market, and there are more SaaS users in foreign countries. in addition to the free experience version, Dify also has different versions for individuals, teams, and enterprises, and charges by US dollar, which is relatively high in similar products.
2.FastGPT
FastGPT was released in April 2023 and specializes in large model-based knowledge base quizzes thatProvides out-of-the-box data processing, model calling and other capabilities.FastGPT supports a variety of large models, and can realize complex Q&A scenarios through visual workflow orchestration.FastGPT's product positioning is a bit like the foreign LlamaIndex.FastGPT also has a high popularity on GitHub.
FastGPT differs from most other knowledge base quiz products in that it uses quiz pairs for storage, not just chunk (text chunking) processing, with the goal of reducing the length of the vectorized content so that the vectors can better express the meaning of the text, thus improving the precision of the search.
FastGPT specializes in knowledge base training, is suitable for knowledge base quiz Agent, supports enterprise-level applications, and FastGPT supports local deployment, which can ensure the privacy and security of private knowledge.
FastGPT is similar to Dify, providing cloud service and private deployment. The operation of cloud service is more convenient than Dify, and FastGPT has also started the charging mode, the cost is cheaper than Dify.FastGPT has the majority of domestic users.
3&4.BaiduWenxin Intelligent Platformand Baidu Chifan AppBuilder
Baidu has launched two Agent development platforms, one is Wenxin Intelligent Body Platform (AgentBuilder), and the other is Baidu Thousand Sails AppBuilder (AI native application). Wenxin Intelligent Body Platform is located in the C-end, and Baidu Thousand Sails AppBuilder is located in the B-end. In terms of platform functionality and ecology, Thousand Sails AppBuilder is more professional and has stronger usability.
3. Wenshin Intelligent Body Platform
In September 2023, Baidu released the Wenxin One Word plug-in ecological platform - Lingjing Matrix. In December of the same year, Baidu's Spiritual Realm Matrix platform was upgraded to the Wenxin Big Model Intelligent Body platform. in April 2024, the Spiritual Realm Matrix was officially renamed the Wenxin Intelligent Body platform.
The Wenshin Intelligent Body platform integrates the Wenshin Big Model, zero-code natural language creation, low-code data and capability plug-in creation, workflow design, one-click configuration of digital images, knowledge base, and Baidu eco-traffic distribution.
4. Baidu Chifan AppBuilder
In October 2023, Baidu Thousand Sails AppBuilder opened for internal testing. in December 2023, Baidu officially announced that Thousand Sails AppBuilder, the AI native app development workbench, is fully open for service.
Baidu Chifan AppBulider is geared towards users with different development capabilities and development scenarios, and is categorized into zero-code state, low-code state, and code state. The following figure shows the platform functional architecture of Chifan AppBuilder's industrial-grade AI applications.
Compared with the Wenxin Intelligent Body Platform, AppBulider is more specialized in model support, component richness and scalability, complex task execution, and commercial realization.
5.Wisdom Spectrum Intelligencecenter
In November 2023, Smart Spectrum released a new generation of grand models, GLM-4, and launched GLM-4-All Tools, and GLMs personalized intelligent body customization function, i.e., Smart Spectrum's Intelligent Body Center, was also online at the same time.GLM-4 dramatically improves the ability of the intelligent body, and the GLM-4 All Tools realizes autonomy according to the user's intention, automatically understands and plans the complex commands, and freely invokes the Web Browser, Code Interpreter and Multi-Modal Vincennes Big Model to accomplish complex tasks. Users can create their own GLM Intelligent Bodies with a simple Prompt.
Smart Spectrum Intelligent Body Center is a zero-code Agent development platform that uses a fully visualized page to realize the operation of commands, plug-ins, knowledge base, debugging and other functional modules. Its plug-in one-click test function, the user interaction page of the customized UI component function is quite distinctive. However, it currently does not have the workflow design function.
6.Heavenly CraftsmanshipSkyAgents
In December 2023, Kunlun World Wide officially open tested the Beta version of its Agents development platform "SkyAgents". SkyAgents is based on Kunlun World Wide's SkyAgents model and advocates the concept of code-free design.
The following picture shows the main page of SkyAgents, which is divided into three operation pages: System Module, Agent, and Tools, but many function modules are not yet online.
7. button(Coze)
Coze is an Agent development platform launched by ByteDance, including the overseas version and the domestic version. The domestic version is further divided into basic version and professional version.In December 2023, the overseas version of Coze was launched.In February 2024, the domestic version of Coze was launched. Buckle initially referred to Agent as Bot, and after the homepage was revamped in October 2024, it was called Intelligent Body.
Overseas version and domestic version are almost the same in terms of page layout, function operation, etc. Overseas version is oriented to overseas users and markets, and it can provide foreign big model calls such as GPT-4o, GPT-4-Turbo, Gemini, etc., whereas the domestic version can only use domestic big models, such as Kimi, Baichuan, Tongyi, Zhi Spectrum and so on. The overseas version started charging in March 2024, and the domestic version started charging in August with the launch of Buckle Pro. Overseas and domestic charges are different.
Buckle Domestic Edition provides Basic Edition and Professional Edition. The Professional Edition supports larger team size on top of the functions of the Basic Edition and provides professional and perfect after-sales service system to meet the business needs of developers and enterprise users. At present, the Professional Edition is managed by Volcano Engine, and is expected to further expand its functions in the future, deepening the direction of enterprise-level Agent applications and services.
Buckle's workflow design can also be combined by modular component drag and drop. The following figure shows the Buckle workflow design page. The left side is rich in functional modules, including plug-ins, models, code, knowledge base, workflow calls, image flow calls, selectors, intent recognition, text processing, messages, variables, databases and so on, and the right side is the workflow orchestration canvas.
8.Starfire Intelligenceplatform
In April 2024, KU Xunfei released the Starfire Intelligent Body Platform, which is located in the development of production-grade Agents and is designed to help enterprises solve the "last-mile" problem of the landing of large models.
The Starfire Intelligent Body Platform builds three Agent development methods: structured creation of intelligent bodies, choreographed creation of intelligent bodies, and light application development.Shown below.
Structured creation of intelligences:Focusing on the scene characters, the Agent is quickly created based on natural language through the role setting and dialog module, as shown in Figure 3-10. The Agent created in this way is more like a ChatBot (chatbot).
Orchestrate the creation of intelligences:It is workflow orchestration design, Starfire Intelligent Body Platform divides the orchestration module into four types: big model, function node, AIGC capability, external tools, integrates various kinds of tool sets, quickly configures various kinds of nodes, and visualizes drag-and-drop operation to realize the Agent development of complex functions.
Light application development:Is oriented to different vertical scenarios on the enterprise side, providing independent and comprehensive development and interaction methods, so that complex professional issues are realized in a simpler way, light application development requires developers to master certain programming knowledge. Light application development requires developers to have some programming knowledge. Such as SmartWen, Xiaomedic, SmartWorks, Language Companion, etc. are all professional light applications.
For Agent developers, Spark Intelligence provides a series of products ranging from zero-code, low-code to full-code, realizing an all-round coverage ranging from no technical threshold to high technical threshold but with a great degree of freedom. In addition, Spark Intelligent Body platform also provides many Agent templates, developers can directly view and use these Agent templates.
In May 2024, Tencent launched its Agent development platform, Tencent MetaWare. Based on Tencent's hybrid model, based on the design concept of "foolproof" operation, Tencent MetaWare allows even beginners to easily start creating Agents.
Tencent MetaWare's Agent development platform was released late, but its feature configuration and ecological construction pace is relatively fast, and Tencent has a strong user and community base. The figure below shows the workflow page of Tencent MetaWare.
Above is the content of this article, first a simple comb inventory of the domestic mainstream Agent development platform, to the big manufacturers of product reviews. Of course, in addition to these platforms, there are some technology service companies released by the Agent development platform, such as BetterYeah AI, with template features, it's not bad to use.