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Nicholas StevensStripeas Head of Product, Agentic Commerce· Sep 25 Dave CitronNiantic Spatialas Chief Product Officer· Sep 25 Thore GraepelMetis Reasoningas Founder· Sep 24 Tarkan ManerDepartureas Departed· Sep 24 Mohsen GhasempourMorrisonsas Chief AI Officer· Sep 24 Michael SteibAngias Chief Executive Officer· Sep 22 Mike ScarpelliClickHouseas Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair· Sep 22 Steve ChaseRetirementas Retired· Sep 22Nicholas StevensStripeas Head of Product, Agentic Commerce· Sep 25 Dave CitronNiantic Spatialas Chief Product Officer· Sep 25 Thore GraepelMetis Reasoningas Founder· Sep 24 Tarkan ManerDepartureas Departed· Sep 24 Mohsen GhasempourMorrisonsas Chief AI Officer· Sep 24 Michael SteibAngias Chief Executive Officer· Sep 22 Mike ScarpelliClickHouseas Independent Director and Audit Committee Chair· Sep 22 Steve ChaseRetirementas Retired· Sep 22

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Mastra

Agent framework for TypeScript developers

Mastra, a newer entrant built for TypeScript developers, has drawn 27.7 thousand GitHub stars.

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AI LatelyJan 1, 2026
“Mastra, a newer entrant built for TypeScript developers, has drawn 27.7 thousand GitHub stars.”

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Agent Infrastructure
The Agent Runtime Wars
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and the open-source LangChain ecosystem each shipped a competing agent-runtime abstraction within one year, leaving orchestration itself, ahead of the underlying protocol, as agentic AI's real lock-in layer.
Jan 1, 2026