Modular: Agentic Building Blocks — MAX Serve & OpenAI Function Calling

AI Impact Summary

The Modular MAX Agentic Cookbook provides a full-stack application demonstrating AI agent creation using MAX Serve and OpenAI Function Calling. It leverages FastAPI and React for developer familiarity and flexibility, offering a self-hosted solution for running OpenAI models locally or via external endpoints. The cookbook simplifies agent development by providing pre-configured endpoints and a VS Code configuration, allowing developers to quickly prototype and deploy AI agents with minimal setup.