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tool use
Tool use refers to letting LLMs and agents call search, code execution, databases, or external APIs only when needed, instead of relying on generation alone. The hard part is deciding when a tool helps and when it just adds latency, cost, or failure modes, especially in multimodal agents and production workflows.
2 articles
Model Releases/May 5
Why Kimi K2.5 Changes the Open-Source Agent Race
Kimi K2.5 makes open-source agents matter by pairing multimodal reasoning with tool-heavy execution.
Research/Apr 10
Act Wisely: Teaching Agents When Not to Call Tools
A new training scheme, HDPO, aims to cut blind tool use in multimodal agents by separating accuracy from tool efficiency.