# Hugging Face — License to Call: Introducing Transformers Agents 2.0

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-05-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/agents
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1893-license-to-call-introducing-transformers-agents-2-0

Hugging Face releases Transformers Agents 2.0, introducing two new agent types (CodeAgent and ReactAgent), sharing options, and a new stand-alone library smolagents. The new framework allows a Llama-3-70B-Instruct agent to outperform GPT-4 based agents on the GAIA Leaderboard.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/agents:

> We are releasing Transformers Agents 2.0!
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> ⇒ 🎁 On top of our existing agent type, we introduce two new agents that can iterate based on past observations to solve complex tasks.
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> ⇒ 💡 We aim for the code to be clear and modular, and for common attributes like the final prompt and tools to be transparent.
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> ⇒ 🤝 We add sharing options to boost community agents.
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> ⇒ 💪 Extremely performant new agent framework, allowing a Llama-3-70B-Instruct agent to outperform GPT-4 based agents in the GAIA Leaderboard!
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> 🚀 Go try it out and climb ever higher on the GAIA leaderboard!
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> transformers.agents has now been upgraded to the stand-alone library smolagents! The two libraries have very similar APIs, so switching is easy. Go checkout the smolagents introduction blog here.

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