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Tools: Models and AI infrastructure
Category: Catalogue
Count: 41 catalogued, 5 not answering
Models and AI infrastructure
Model families, local runners, SDKs and the MCP surface.
41 tools, described from their own homepages and last
checked 2026-09-04. 5 of those homepages did not answer. None of them is used to build this site. A row is a description, not an endorsement.
All 41
Alphabetical. Checked on 2026-09-04; anything that did not answer says so.
- AI Dev Jobs MCP the site refused an automated requestThe same job board exposed over MCP so an agent can search it. The endpoint refused a plain request.A job board with a tool interface.
- Clarifai the connection timed outComputer vision and model deployment APIs. The site timed out on every attempt.Unreachable: the connection timed out.
- Anthropic's model family, and the one this catalogue's own tooling is written against.The model behind a good deal of this list.
- Claude MCP Servers the domain does not resolveA directory of MCP servers. The domain no longer resolves.Gone: the domain does not resolve.
- Scores APIs on how usable they are without a human: auth method, headless operation, pricing transparency.Rates APIs for the machine, not the reader.
- Image recognition returning natural language descriptions rather than label sets.Answers in sentences, not in tags.
- Meta's open-weight code model family, released with inference code and licence terms permitting commercial use.Made a serious code model something you could download.
- Mistral's code model, available through their platform and for local deployment under their licence.Europe's entry in the code model race.
- A community index of MCP servers and plugins usable from Cursor.The plugin list, before there was a plugin list.
- An open-weight code model that closed much of the gap to proprietary systems, released with weights and paper.The release that made 'open weights are behind' harder to say.
- Google's conversational agent platform, now running on Gemini, with the older intent model still underneath.Survived the shift from intents to models.
- Google's model family, with very long context and native multimodal input.Competes on how much you can put in.
- Pre-trained image and video recognition APIs: labels, text, faces and objects without training a model.Vision without a training run.
- OpenAI's frontier model line. The catalogue entry points at the company rather than at a product page.The entry is a company, not a tool.
- Runs open models locally on ordinary hardware, with a desktop application rather than a command line.Local models for people who will not compile anything.
- Modular building blocks for retrieval and agent pipelines, aimed at production rather than at demonstrations.Components, not a framework that owns your program.
- Helium MCP the page returns 404An MCP server for news with bias scoring. The repository returns 404.Gone: the repository is not there.
- An open-source desktop client that runs local models or connects to hosted ones, with the same interface for both.Local and cloud behind one window.
- The framework that popularised chaining model calls with tools and memory, now positioned as an agent engineering platform.Defined the vocabulary, then had to defend it.
- A gateway that speaks the OpenAI format to a hundred providers, with cost tracking, guardrails and load balancing.Makes provider choice a configuration line.
- Packages a model and its runtime into a single executable file that runs on several operating systems without installation.A model you can email.
- Data framework for connecting documents to models, including the parsing of formats that resist extraction.Started at ingestion, which is where retrieval actually fails.
- A desktop application for running local models, with a server mode that speaks the OpenAI API.Local models behind the API everything already speaks.
- An open-source drop-in replacement for the OpenAI API that runs models locally, including without a GPU.The same API, on hardware you already own.
- A directory of MCP servers connecting assistants to tools like Figma, Databricks and Ghidra.The catalogue that appeared as soon as the protocol did.
- Another index of MCP servers, searchable by capability.One of several directories competing to be the registry.
- An MCP server directory with a focus on connecting applications to tools and workflows.Short domain, long list.
- Listed as an MCP directory. The domain is now parked and offered for sale.Gone: the domain is for sale.
- A search engine indexed for agents rather than people, covering tools, MCP servers and APIs.Search built for the reader who is not a reader.
- Runs open models locally with one command, and serves them over a simple API. The reason most people's first local model worked.Made running a model as easy as pulling an image.
- Omni Skills Forge the page returns 404A skill manager for assistants. The repository returns 404.Gone: the repository is not there.
- One API across nearly every model, with prices and availability compared in the open.Turned the model market into a price list.
- A fourteen-billion parameter Microsoft Research model that performs above its size on reasoning, largely through training data quality.An argument that data beats parameter count.
- Testing, evaluation and red-teaming for prompts and agents, including vulnerability scanning.Treats a prompt as something you can regression-test.
- A daily-updated directory of MCP servers, one of the more actively maintained indexes.Updated daily, which most directories are not.
- Alibaba's open-weight code model line. The repository has moved on to Qwen3-Coder.Superseded by its own next version.
- The full computer vision pipeline: annotation, training, evaluation and deployment.Covers the labelling, which is where vision projects die.
- Microsoft's SDK for embedding models into applications, with planners and plugins as first-class parts.Enterprise-shaped from the beginning.
- An open code model from the BigCode project, trained on permissively licensed source with the data provenance published.Published what it was trained on, which almost nobody does.
- A duplicate entry for the AI SDK, filed under models rather than assistants. One toolkit, two rows.The catalogue lists it twice.
- The GitHub MCP Registry, centralising MCP servers for discovery from VS Code and elsewhere.The registry attempt from the platform that hosts the code.
Other shelves
115AI assistants and agents 88Workflow and productivity 66Testing and code quality 45Security and secrets 41Monitoring and analytics 35Data, APIs and backends 34CI, CD and infrastructure 31Docs and content 29Payments and messaging 22Hosting and cloud 18Terminal and CLI 16Design and media 10Editors and IDEs
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