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Arcee AI | Arcee AI and mergekit unite
Several months ago, I stumbled upon an innovative technique in the world of language model training known as Model Merging. This SOTA approach involves the fusion of two or more LLMs into a singular, cohesive model, presenting a novel and experimental method for creating sophisticated models at a fraction of

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Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AILots to gain from building agentic systems with small language models.Capabilities are increasing rapidly!AI devs should be exploring SLMs.Here are my notes: pic.twitter.com/7dhmz9V2jB— elvis (@omarsar0) July 1, 2025

Arcee AI | March is Merge Madness
To celebrate Arcee’s recent merger with mergekit, we’re bringing you a month of resources and knowledge on model merging.
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Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI
Large language models (LLMs) are often praised for exhibiting near-human performance on a wide range of tasks and valued for their ability to hold a general conversation. The rise of agentic AI systems is, however, ushering in a mass of applications in which language models perform a small number of specialized tasks repetitively and with little variation. Here we lay out the position that small language models (SLMs) are sufficiently powerful, inherently more suitable, and necessarily more economical for many invocations in agentic systems, and are therefore the future of agentic AI. Our argumentation is grounded in the current level of capabilities exhibited by SLMs, the common architectures of agentic systems, and the economy of LM deployment. We further argue that in situations where general-purpose conversational abilities are essential, heterogeneous agentic systems (i.e., agents invoking multiple different models) are the natural choice. We discuss the potential barriers for the adoption of SLMs in agentic systems and outline a general LLM-to-SLM agent conversion algorithm. Our position, formulated as a value statement, highlights the significance of the operational and economic impact even a partial shift from LLMs to SLMs is to have on the AI agent industry. We aim to stimulate the discussion on the effective use of AI resources and hope to advance the efforts to lower the costs of AI of the present day. Calling for both contributions to and critique of our position, we commit to publishing all such correspondence at https://research.nvidia.com/labs/lpr/slm-agents.

Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First
Large Language Model (LLM) agents, acting on their users' behalf to manipulate and analyze data, are likely to become the dominant workload for data systems in the future. When working with data,...

AI Agents: Key Concepts and How They Overcome LLM Limitations
An AI agent is an autonomous software entity that is often used to augment a large language model. Here's what developers need to know.

Project Think: building the next generation of AI agents on Cloudflare
Announcing a preview of the next edition of the Agents SDK — from lightweight primitives to a batteries-included platform for AI agents that think, act, and persist.

The Kaitchup – AI on a Budget | Benjamin Marie | Substack
Weekly tutorials and news on adapting large language models (LLMs) to your tasks and hardware using the most recent techniques and models. The Kaitchup proposes a collection of 180+ AI notebooks regularly updated. Click to read The Kaitchup – AI on a Budget, by Benjamin Marie, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

LukeW | Common AI Product Issues
At this point, almost every software domain has launched or explored AI features. Despite the wide range of use cases, most of these implementations have been t...

Introducing LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.

ARC-AGI-3
ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark for AI agents—play as humans and build agents that learn in novel environments.

SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have been widely adopted in modern software development workflows. SWE-bench [13] and related works [23, 24, 22, 25, 15] establish the task of issue resolution as a de-facto standard for assessing their capability and usefulness. In this setting, an agent is given an entire codebase, a task description (e.g., a bug report or feature request) in natural language and is instructed to produce a code patch that resolves the issue and passes the repository’s test suite. These benchmarks have been instrumental in demonstrating both the substantial potential and the persistent limitations of current models as SWE agents.
Introducing FlexOlmo: a new paradigm for language model training and data collaboration | Ai2
Explore how FlexOlmo enables collaborative language model training without sacrificing data privacy or control, introducing a new, flexible approach to building shared AI models.
Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents

Our newest project is taking flight: meet codename goose! 🪶 Today, we launched an open source on-machine AI Agent. It’s modular, works with your preferred LLM, and integrates seamlessly with developer tools and other software via MCP. Developers, check it out! block.github.io/goose/blog/2025/01/28/introdu…
Introducing codename goose
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