Check this out. I just asked an agent to answer one of the world's greatest debates. Is Messi or Ronaldo the greatest soccer player of all time.This isn't an easy question to answer, and it definitely requires a good amount of research. The agent automatically spawned two parallel sub agents to look into each of their achievements. This meant searching the web over a dozen times, compiling a comprehensive report with cited sources.To be extra thorough, the agent then critiqued its own report and plugged any ...

Core Insights - Benchmark has experienced significant leadership changes, losing three General Partners (GPs) in the past two years, while also adding a new GP, Everett Randle, who has a strong background in AI investments [1][4][5] Group 1: Leadership Changes - Victor Lazarte, a key figure in Benchmark's investment in HeyGen, has left to start his own VC firm, marking a notable shift in the firm's leadership [1] - Everett Randle, previously a partner at KP, has joined Benchmark, bringing a wealth of experience in AI investments [1][2] - The firm has emphasized a flat organizational structure, valuing equal power and responsibility among partners [5] Group 2: Investment Performance - Benchmark's investments in AI have yielded impressive results, with many projects experiencing rapid revenue growth or securing multiple funding rounds [5] - Recent notable investments include a $25 million Series A round for an AI document product and a $105 million Series B round for Cursor, an AI programming tool [6] - The firm has also led significant funding rounds for AI-related projects, such as $85 million for Exa, which aims to create AI-centric search solutions [7] Group 3: Notable Projects and Valuations - Benchmark's early investments in AI projects like Cerebras have resulted in substantial valuations, with Cerebras recently achieving an $8.1 billion valuation after a $1.1 billion Series G round [8] - The firm has invested in various AI sectors, including AI coding, bug detection, and sales tax compliance automation, showcasing a diverse portfolio [6][8] - Benchmark's involvement in projects like HeyGen and Manus highlights its influence in the Chinese market, with HeyGen achieving $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) [8]

RT Avi Chawla (@_avichawla)Finally, a production-ready backend for Agents that actually works!xpander is a plug-and-play backend for Agents that manages memory, tools, states, version control, guardrails, and more.Works with any framework, like CrewAI, Agno, Langchain, etc.Fully self-hostable! https://t.co/Vz2Hh2tGxi ...

Langsmith Platform Overview - Langsmith is an observability and evaluation platform for AI applications, focusing on tracing application behavior [1] - The platform uses tracing projects to collect logs associated with applications, with each project corresponding to an application [2] - Langsmith is framework agnostic, designed to monitor AI applications regardless of the underlying build [5] Tracing and Monitoring AI Applications - Tracing is enabled by importing environment variables, including Langmouth tracing, Langmith endpoint, and API key [6] - The traceable decorator is added to functions to enable tracing within the application [8] - Langsmith provides a detailed breakdown of each step within the application, known as the run tree, showing inputs, outputs, and telemetry [12][14] - Telemetry includes token cost and latency of each step, visualized through a waterfall view to identify latency sources [14][15] Integration with Langchain and Langraph - Langchain and Langraph, Langchain's open-source libraries, work out of the box with Langsmith, simplifying tracing setup [17] - When using Langraph or Langchain, the traceable decorator is not required, streamlining the tracing process [17]

[Music] My name is John Gutsinger. Uh I work for Cisco. I'm a principal engineer and I work in the technical assistance center or TAC for short.Uh really I'm focused on AI engineering, agentic engineering in the face of customer support. We've been doing a IML for you know a couple years now maybe five or six years. really it started with trying to figure out how do we handle these mass scale issues type problems right where uh some trending issues going to pop up we know we're going to have tens of thousan ...