Three major vendors launched agent management platforms in February 2026. OpenAI released Frontier on February 5. Salesforce expanded Agentforce throughout January and February. AWS grew Bedrock AgentCore. Gartner called these platforms "the most valuable real estate in AI."
Only 11% of organizations have agents in production, according to Deloitte. Gartner forecasts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by end of 2027. Vendors are racing to own infrastructure before production use cases prove out at scale, betting that controlling the platform matters more than solving deployment challenges first.