Introducing smolagents: simple agents that write actions in code

AI Impact Summary

OpenAI is introducing smolagents, a library designed to simplify the creation of agentic systems for language models. This library allows developers to build agents that execute actions directly in code, leveraging tools like search and computation. The core concept is to enable LLMs to control workflows by generating code, offering a more flexible and robust approach compared to traditional JSON-based action definitions, and is intended to replace the transformers.agents library.