With the big hype around AI agents these days, I couldnโt stop thinking about how AI agents could truly enhance real-world activities. What sort of applications could we build with those AI agents: agentic RAG? self-correcting text-to-sql? Nah, boringโฆ
Passionate about outdoors, Iโve always dreamed of a tool that could simplify planning mountain trips while accounting for all potential risks. Thatโs why I built ๐๐น๐ฝ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐, a smart assistant designed to help you plan safe and enjoyable itineraries in the French Alps and Pyrenees.
Built using Hugging Face's ๐๐บ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ library, Alpine Agent combines the power of AI with trusted resources like ๐๐ฌ๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ.๐ง๐ณ (https://skitour.fr/) and METEO FRANCE. Whether itโs suggesting a route with moderate difficulty or analyzing avalanche risks and weather conditions, this agent dynamically integrates data to deliver personalized recommendations.
In my latest blog post, I share how I developed this projectโfrom defining tools and integrating APIs to selecting the best LLMs like ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฏ2.5-๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ-32๐-๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต, ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข-3.3-70๐-๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ถ๐ค๐ต, or ๐๐๐-4.
๐ Releasing a new zeroshot-classifier based on ModernBERT! Some key takeaways:
- โก Speed & efficiency: It's multiple times faster and uses significantly less memory than DeBERTav3. You can use larger batch sizes and enabling bf16 (instead of fp16) gave me a ~2x speed boost as well - ๐ Performance tradeoff: It performs slightly worse than DeBERTav3 on average across my zeroshot classification task collection - ๐ง Use cases: I recommend using it for scenarios requiring speed and a larger context window (8k). - ๐ก Whatโs next? Iโm preparing a newer version trained on better + longer synthetic data to fully leverage the 8k context window and improve upon the training mix of my older zeroshot-v2.0 models. I also hope that there will be a multilingual variant in the future.
Since I published it on GitHub a few days ago, Hugging Face's new agentic library ๐๐บ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ has gathered nearly 4k stars ๐คฏ
โก๏ธ But we are just getting started on agents: so we are hiring an ML Engineer to join me and double down on this effort!
The plan is to build GUI agents: agents that can act on your computer with mouse & keyboard, like Claude Computer Use.