Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst Publish Illustrated Guide to AI Agents After Two Years of Work
MaartenGr · x · 2026-10-12
Maarten Grootendorst and Jay Alammar, authors of Hands-On Large Language Models, have released their new O'Reilly book An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents, now shipping worldwide.
- Two years in the making, with over 300 original figures and hundreds of iterations.
- Covers agent concepts, visuals, and code — building agents with LLMs, tools, and memory.
- The duo is known for their illustrated explanations of Transformers and LLMs; the book extends that visual style to the agent stack.
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