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Agents and Tools in Agentic AI: A Simple Explanation

Whatever question we type into ChatGPT is sent to a model behind the scenes, which generates the response. You can think of ChatGPT as a web or mobile application — an interface through which we interact with the underlying Model/LLM.

Agents and Tools in Agentic AI: A Simple Explanation

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Whatever question we type into ChatGPT is sent to a model behind the scenes, which generates the response.

You can think of ChatGPT as a web or mobile application — an interface through which we interact with the underlying Model/LLM.

we will build a simple understanding of the following: What a model is Why a model needs tools What tools are How an agent uses tools Model vs.

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Whatever question we type into ChatGPT is sent to a model behind the scenes, which generates the response. You can think of ChatGPT as a web or mobile application — an interface through which we interact with the underlying Model/LLM. we will build a simple understanding of the following:

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