8 Types of LLMs Used in AI Agents
mdancho84 · x · 2026-08-29
This post categorizes 8 types of LLMs used in AI Agents, including general LLMs, code-specialized, multimodal, tool-calling, function-calling, long-context, Hierarchical Language Models (HLM), and Large Concept Models (LCM), explaining their roles in complex workflows.
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