There are three chapters in Early Release on the O’Reilly Platform (Intro, Memory, and Tools):

And here you have it! The cover of our “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” book! Why a Dolphin? The process of choosing cover animals is a closely guarded secret held deep within the legendary halls of O'Reilly. @JayAlammar and I do not get to choose it, but we love it!

We will reach out to all lucky winners of the random draw for their information. Thanks to all participants! So many great guesses! There are three chapters in Early Release on the O’Reilly Platform (Intro, Memory, and Tools):

The first two chapters are in early release:

Contest Rules 2: * 7 lucky winners will receive digital copies of the book. * We will close the contest on Monday 24th of November and share the cover! * TIP - You can find all existing O’Reilly animal covers here:

Contest Rules 1: * Each participant is allowed two guesses * 3 lucky winners will be randomly selected from those who guessed correctly to receive a free print copy of our book when it hits the shelves (note: we cannot ship to Russia or Ukraine)

It’s time to guess the animal on the cover! Our cover animal is here, and @JayAlammar and I are thrilled to celebrate it with an exciting contest for our upcoming release, An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents! Each person gets two guesses. Which animal do you think we got?

https://t.co/TNeLzCy4Kf

@JayAlammar and I cover memory (including context engineering) and tools (including MCP) in these chapters, along with many, many visuals. Every so often, we will release a new chapter and show you how they all fit within the framework(s) of AI Agent(s).

Drafts of the first two chapters of "An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents" are now available in Early Release on the O'Reilly platform!

The Illustrated Guide to AI Agents New book announcement! Thrilled that together with @MaartenGr, we're writing a new book titled “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” and published by @OReillyMedia. This will be our most visually-rich project yet. We will drill into the main

Excited to share that @JayAlammar and I are writing the book “An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents” with @OReillyMedia 🥳 Our new book will contain chapters on the fundamentals of agents (memory, tools, and planning), alongside more advanced concepts like RL and reasoning LLMs!

AI agents are no longer just executing tasks – they’re reasoning, planning, and making decisions. But how do they really work? At ODSC AI West, @MaartenGr, will break it down visually in his talk: A Visual Guide to AI Agents. Register now → https://t.co/zoXKPHDOdZ

This was a blast to write! With many new visuals on DeepSeek-R1 internals 😃

this was an amazing read

🛒 Get it here: https://t.co/1Q1z7rWhOb 🔍 Free preview PDF via Turing: https://t.co/orqc61LpFn (see “随书下载”)

If you're a Chinese reader interested in DeepSeek-R1 or reasoning LLMs, check it out! It contains many updated visuals, created by combining our existing guides with new custom visuals. Thank you to @bojie_li for the translation and @liumy404 for being a wonderful editor!

Thrilled to share that @JayAlammar and I published a short book for our Chinese audience! 《图解DeepSeek技术》 is now available, published in direct collaboration with Turingbook (图灵教育)

🎉 @JayAlammar & @MaartenGr的最新图书《图解 DeepSeek 技术》正式出版啦！ 这是继《图解大模型》（HandsonLLM）之后的又一部图解精品，专为中文读者打造。 通过近120幅精美全彩插图，深入拆解推理型模型的机制，以及DeepSeek背后的核心技术。 中文版由图灵教育出品，李博杰@bojie_li 领衔翻译。

Topic Modeling helps us understand re-occurring themes and categories in our data! How will the rise of Agents impact Topic Modeling? 🤖 I am SUPER EXCITED to publish the 126th episode of the Weaviate Podcast featuring Maarten Grootendorst (@MaartenGr)! 🎉 Maarten is a