Agentic AI

As Google integrates AI capabilities throughout its product suite, a brand new technical entity has surfaced in server logs: Google-Agent. For software program devs, understanding this entity is important for distinguishing between automated indexers and real-time, user-initiated requests. Unlike the autonomous crawlers which have outlined the net for many years, Google-Agent operates beneath a special…

World Models (WMs) are a central framework for developing agents that reason and plan in a compact latent space. However, training these models directly from pixel data often leads to ‘representation collapse,’ where the model produces redundant embeddings to trivially satisfy prediction objectives. Current approaches attempt to prevent this by relying on complex heuristics: they…

The current state of AI agent development is characterized by significant architectural fragmentation. Software devs building autonomous systems must generally commit to one of several competing ecosystems: LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, or the more recent Claude Code. Each of these ‘Five Frameworks’ utilizes a proprietary method for defining agent logic, memory persistence, and tool…

In this tutorial, we implement a reinforcement learning agent using RLax, a research-oriented library developed by Google DeepMind for building reinforcement learning algorithms with JAX. We combine RLax with JAX, Haiku, and Optax to construct a Deep Q-Learning (DQN) agent that learns to solve the CartPole environment. Instead of using a fully packaged RL framework,…