Mastering Tool Use and Function Calling in LLMs
Explore function calling and tool use in LLMs, their mechanics, and designing effective tools for AI agents.
Use case
Autonomous workers — browsing, scripting, multi-step tasks.
Explore function calling and tool use in LLMs, their mechanics, and designing effective tools for AI agents.
Microsoft unveiled a wave of AI products including new MAI-branded foundation models, a Copilot super app with long-running Autopilot agents, and a built-in OpenClaw Companion agent for Windows.
Replicate's weekly bulletin reports nearly 5 million first-week predictions for FLUX.1 [schnell] and new image-to-image support for FLUX.1 [dev]. The update also highlights a Streamlit tutorial featuring Replicate's Zeke and Odyssey, a Minecraft agent framework using fine-tuned LLaMA-3.
Replicate's weekly bulletin covers Meta's release of the Llama 3.1 model family including the 405B parameter model, Mistral AI's Large 2 under a research license, and Meta's open-sourced toolkit for building AI agents. The issue also highlights Meta's PromptGuard for detecting malicious prompts and a new Replicate API endpoint for searching public models.
Anthropic has introduced Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code, enabling reusable, multi-step agent tasks across enterprise plans and APIs, alongside a new "ultracode" effort level that lets Claude autonomously decide when to spawn workflows.
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, bringing sharper coding performance, on-the-fly dynamic workflows with coordinated subagents, and a cheaper fast mode to Claude Code and APIs.