Adept

Overview Adept is the harder tool page to write honestly in 2026, because the company that gave us Adept is no longer really the company running it. Founded in 2022 by David Luan (ex OpenAI, ex Google Brain), Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar (both co authors of the original "Attention Is All You Need" paper), and a small team of top tier transformer researchers, Adept set out to build models that could use software the way a human does — see the screen, reason about the interface, and take actions like clicking, typing, and navigating. That research bet, called Action Transformer or ACT, produced ACT 1 in 2022 and ACT 2 in 2023, and for eighteen months Adept was one of the most watched agent model labs in the industry. Then in June 2024, Amazon licensed Adept's technology and hired most of the founding leadership, including CEO David Luan, into its AGI team. Adept the company continued to exist on paper — the corporate entity, a smaller staff, ongoing product commitments — but the center of gravity moved to Amazon. Since then Adept has operated more like a research lab slash legacy product than the aggressive frontier startup it was in its first two years. The website is still up at adept.ai; the product surface has narrowed; and the roadmap you'd have inferred in 2023 is not the roadmap that plays out. We're including Adept in this catalog because the ideas it introduced — computer using agents that see and…