An Agent Is Just an LLM in a For-Loop

The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica by Ben Lorica

Aug 20, 202635:17Technology

Maarten Grootendorst, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind and co-author of Hands-On Large Language Models and An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, joins Ben Lorica to explain the concepts developers need to u...

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