# Hugging Face — Open-source LLMs as LangChain Agents

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-01-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Mixtral, GPT-3.5, GPT-4
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-source-llms-as-agents
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1954-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.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/open-source-llms-as-agents:

> 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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