Anthropic Tool Calling Updates Cut Tokens 30–50% in Multi-Step Agent Tasks

Anthropic updates tool calling to reduce token use; tool search cuts tokens up to 80%, making larger tool sets practical.
SiliconANGLE

Writer releases Palmyra X 004 next-gen generative AI model with tool calling capability

Enterprise-focused generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the introduction of Palmyra X 004, the company’s newest proprietary large language model designed to power AI ...
VentureBeat

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...
Geeky Gadgets

How to setup local function calling with Ollama

Have you ever wondered how you can leverage the power of AI local language models locally right on your laptop or PC? What if I told you that setting up local function calling with a fine-tuned Llama ...
InfoWorld

3 of the best LLM integration tools for R

Do you need to add LLM capabilities to your R scripts and applications? Here are three tools you'll want to know. When we first looked at this space in late 2023, many generative AI R packages focused ...