March 5, 2025
Step by Step Guide to Build an AI Research Assistant with Hugging Face SmolAgents: Automating Web Search and Article Summarization Using LLM-Powered Autonomous Agents
Hugging Face’s SmolAgents framework provides a lightweight and efficient way to build AI agents that leverage tools like web search and code execution. In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to build an AI-powered research assistant that can autonomously search the web and summarize articles using SmolAgents. This implementation runs seamlessly, requiring minimal setup, and showcases the power of AI agents in automating real-world tasks such as research, summarization, and information retrieval. !pip install smolagents beautifulsoup4 First, we install smolagents beautifulsoup4, which enables AI agents to use tools like web search and code execution, and BeautifulSoup4, a Python library for parsing