Since everyone wonders what MCP is, I think this image by @norahsakal is the best illustration:
– MCP is like the USB-C of tools: a standard interface to get your tools from. As such, it's not a real agentic revolution per se, nor is it particularly powerful – like USB is not
@aymericroucher
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MCP as USB-C of tools: standard interface, not revolutionary
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OpenAI’s new agents library praised for simplicity
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OpenAI published a new agents library : it's really nice, in particular their implementation of common agentic patterns. In smolagents we have chosen to let the user implement these simple schemes to avoid adding complexity, but here the implementation seems simple enough!
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Stop Ghibli pics for GPT5-AGI arrival, says Aymeric Rouche
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OMG just stop generating Ghibli pictures, you guys are delaying the arrival of GPT5-AGI
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DeepSeek R1: Rule-based RL beats SFT for GUI agents with smaller datasets
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DeepSeek R1 moment has come for GUI agents: Rule-based Reinforcement Learning gives better results than SFT with 500x smaller datasets! Traditionally (by which I mean "in the last few months"), GUI agents have been trained with supervised fine-tuning (SFT). This meant,
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Fake images and videos erode trust in news media
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Generating convincing fake pictures goes much further than just car insurance fraud. Fake news can go x100 with these tools – photos and videos can not be a support for trust anymore.
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Smolagents: Code actions better than JSON, with upcoming courses
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We built smolagents exactly on this premise: Code actions just work better than JSON! Now's a good time to start with smolagents: we have an upcoming @DeepLearningAI course, and our own Agent course, get to work now!
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Daily reminder that GPT-4.5 is really good
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Daily reminder that GPT-4.5 is, in fact, really good!
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Debating async vs thread for linear agent run
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Haha we were discussing async this morning: the conclusion was since an agent's run is linear (chaining operation), it could just be put in a thread. Do you have use cases where async would be better?
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smolagents reaches 15k GitHub stars, fastest-growing agentic framework
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smolagents has reached 15k GitHub stars : it's one of the fastest-growing agentic frameworks ever Don't hesitate to try it out, we working with @avillanovamoral to add nice stuff like sandboxed code execution via E2B or Docker!