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Apr 4
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876: Hugging Face’s smolagents: Agentic ...

Jon Krohn
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Small, simple, accessible: Hugging Face makes a huge contribution to the agentic AI wave with its smolagents. Jon Krohn explores how this small-but-mighty new Python library can act as the best personal assistant you never had. Hear about its features and use cases in this five-minute Friday.


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