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Choosing the Right AI Agent Framework: A Comprehensive Guide

Choosing the Right AI Agent Framework: A Comprehensive Guide

The landscape of AI agent development has matured from experimental prototypes to production-grade systems. With numerous frameworks emerging, each with distinct philosophies and capabilities, choosing the right one demands careful evaluation of technical requirements, team expertise, and business objectives. At Maxim, we've conducted an extensive analysis of the

Are Small Language Models the Future of Agentic AI?

Are Small Language Models the Future of Agentic AI?

Recent research from NVIDIA presents a compelling argument that small language models (SLMs) represent the future of agentic artificial intelligence systems. The paper challenges the current industry paradigm of deploying large language models for all agent tasks, proposing instead that smaller, specialized models offer superior operational characteristics for most agentic

Building a Simple Second Brain AI Agent with Vercel AI SDK & Maxim AI

Building a Simple Second Brain AI Agent with Vercel AI SDK & Maxim AI

A comprehensive step-by-step tutorial on creating a RAG-powered knowledge base system with observability. Table of Contents 1. Project Overview 2. Architecture & Technology Stack 3. Environment Setup 4. Database Configuration 5. Embedding System Implementation 6. RAG Implementation 7. Maxim AI Integration for Observability 8. AI Chat API with Tools 9.

Building an AI Product Review Analyzer: Structured Outputs with Together AI and Maxim Observability

Building an AI Product Review Analyzer: Structured Outputs with Together AI and Maxim Observability

In today's data-driven world, businesses need to extract structured insights from unstructured text at scale. Whether it's analyzing customer reviews, processing support tickets, or extracting key information from documents, the ability to get consistent, structured outputs from Large Language Models (LLMs) has become crucial. In this

Building a Resume Checker with LlamaIndex and Maxim Observability

Building a Resume Checker with LlamaIndex and Maxim Observability

In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll build an intelligent Resume Checker agent using LlamaIndex that analyzes resumes and provides detailed feedback. We'll also integrate Maxim observability to monitor the agent's performance and gain insights into its decision-making process. What We'll Build Our Resume

MCPToolBench++: Raising the Bar for Realistic AI Agent Tool-Use Benchmarks

MCPToolBench++: Raising the Bar for Realistic AI Agent Tool-Use Benchmarks

Introduction At the heart of reliable AI agents lies one critical skill: effective tool calling. We can see this in action with systems like the new Kimi K2, which connects seamlessly to dozens of tools, including web search, map navigation, financial analysis, and automated workflows. This results in impressive versatility

When AI Snitches: Auditing Agents That Spill Your Model’s (Alignment) Tea

When AI Snitches: Auditing Agents That Spill Your Model’s (Alignment) Tea

Sure, your model aced every benchmark, but can you trust it when the stakes are real? Every frontier lab runs alignment post-training before shipping their chat models to the world. The problem? Actually auditing whether this alignment worked can be an absolute nightmare. You're basically trying to find