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AI Agents in Practice

You're reading from   AI Agents in Practice Design, implement, and scale autonomous AI systems for production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805801351
Length 282 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Foundations of AI Workflows and the Rise of AI Agents
2. Evolution of GenAI Workflows FREE CHAPTER 3. The Rise of AI Agents 4. Part 2: Designing, Building, and Scaling AI Agents
5. The Need for an AI Orchestrator 6. The Need for Memory and Context Management 7. The Need for Tools and External Integrations 8. Building Your First AI Agent with LangChain 9. Multi-Agent Applications 10. Part 3: Road to an Open, Agentic Ecosystem
11. Orchestrating Intelligence: Blueprint for Next-Gen Agent Protocols 12. Navigating Ethical Challenges in Real-World AI 13. Other Books You May Enjoy 14. Index

Latest significant breakthroughs

The field of GenAI has experienced rapid advancements over the past few years, with breakthroughs that pushed the boundaries of efficiency, adaptability, and reasoning capabilities. In the following sections, we are going to explore some of the latest techniques that significantly enhance GenAI models’ performance while reducing computational demands.

Small language models and fine-tuning

Small language models (SLMs) are becoming increasingly relevant as organizations seek efficient, cost-effective alternatives to large-scale AI systems.

Definition

SLMs are a streamlined category of GenAI models designed to efficiently process and generate natural language while using fewer computational resources than their larger counterparts. Unlike LLMs, which can have hundreds of billions of parameters, SLMs typically contain only a few million to a few billion parameters.

The reduced size of SLMs allows them to be deployed in environments with limited...

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