More context: in ToolCallingAgent, smolagents always needs a tool call, so removing the necessity of calling a tool would just break the lib's logic. Indeed this is on vLLM's side to integrate!
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smolagents 1.11.0 adds VLLMModel class for local inference
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smolagents now support vLLM! As one of the most popular local inference solutions, the community had been asking us to integrate vLLM: after a heavy refactoring of our LLM classes, we've just released smolagents 1.11.0, with a brand new VLLMModel class. Go try it and tell us
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Multi-Agent Example with Local Models by RLanceMartin
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Great stuff from @RLanceMartin getting a multi agent example with local models
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Sovereign Agentic AGI Alpha Agent deployment framework
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SOVEREIGN AGENTIC AGI ALPHA AGENT SOVEREIGN_AGIALPHA/
├─ one_click_install.sh # The all-in-one installer script (Linux/macOS)
├─ run_sovagent.sh # Launch script (invokes Python)
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OLMo 2 32B: Leading Open-Source AI Model
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The latest OLMo 2 32B might be the best open-source AI model right now!
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Agentic Routing Framework Improves Multi-Agent Efficiency
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Agentic Routing Improves Efficiency! This framework by default comes with 3 agents: General search agent Deep Research agent Financial Analyst It's open-sourced, anyone can add additional agents that are connected to their own data source as well.
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Manus AI: open source clone Anus AI appears in three days
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That is the best lore I've seen in a long time in open source AI communities. There is a startup, Manus AI, that launched a product accessible only by invitation. And in three days, an open source replica of this startup, named Anus AI, has appeared.
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DeepScaleR: 1.5B Model Achieves 43.1% Pass@1 on AIME2024
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Developed by Sijun Tan (UC Berkeley) & team, this model smashes benchmarks w/ a 43.1% Pass@1 accuracy on AIME2024, a +14.3% over its base model! DeepScaleR, a 1.5B parameter model fine tuned from Deepseek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-1.5B. Watch for more: https://
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Panel on AI Application Building: Infrastructure and Agentic Workflows
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Panel with Replit’s Michele Catasta, Stanford’s @percyliang , Nebius’ Roman Chernin and Hugging Face’s @Thom_Wolf
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, on application building. Lots of tips on infra, open source, agentic workflows, benchmarking and code gen. Particular interest in how to take
