Open-source LLMs as LangChain Agents

The blog post explains how to build ReAct agents using open-source LLMs with LangChain, benchmarks models showing Mixtral outperforms GPT-3.5, and announces the release of the smolagents library.

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Open-source LLMs have now reached a performance level that makes them suitable reasoning engines for powering agent workflows: Mixtral even surpasses GPT-3.5 on our benchmark, and its performance could easily be further enhanced with fine-tuning. We've released the simplest agentic library out there: smolagents! Go checkout the smolagents introduction blog here.
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