Interest in agentic systems keeps growing, so itβs important to keep your knowledge up to date. Luckily, some great new surveys have come out and put us on much firmer ground. Theyβre not just about agents as systems, but also about how LLMs themselves are picking up agent-like abilities to reason, plan, and act better.
So here are 7 sources you should explore to get a good sense of todayβs agentic landscape:
Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models β Read more
Let us start with this fresh great survey from a bunch of notable authors: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, Amazon, Google DeepMind, UCSD, Yale. Itβs about how AI reasoning shifts from just βthinkingβ to actually acting in real environments. Youβll learn the main things about agent types, core skills like planning and tool use, optimization methods, real-world applications, and the big open challenges ahead.
Toward Efficient Agents: Memory, Tool learning, and Planning β Read more
Focuses on cutting the real costs of AI agents β things like token usage, latency, and number of steps β without sacrificing task performance. It breaks this down across memory (compression and retrieval), tool use (reducing unnecessary calls), and planning (controlled search), compares methods, and reviews concrete benchmarks and metrics for measuring efficiency in practice.
Agent-as-a-Judge β Read more
How do agentic capabilities influence evaluation? This piece explains the move from simple βLLM-as-a-judgeβ setups to more capable agent-based judges. As tasks get more complex, single-pass model judgments fall short, so researchers are turning to agents that can plan, use tools, collaborate, and verify results. So this is a new roadmap roadmap for robust, verifiable AI evaluation.
A practical guide to building agents by OpenAI β Read more
This guide is for product and engineering teams who want to build their first AI agents. It shares practical lessons from real deployments, covering how to pick good use cases, design agent workflows, and make sure agents behave safely, reliably, and predictably in production.
Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI β Read more
Uncovers both the benefits and risks of AI agents, and lays out a practical governance framework so organizations can use them safely while keeping humans meaningfully in control.
Agentic Large Language Models, a survey β Read more
Surveys agentic LLMs across reasoning, tools, and multi-agent collaboration, highlighting their synergy. It also explores their promise, risks and applications in medicine, finance, science.
A Survey on Agentic Multimodal Large Language Models β Read more
Maps how multimodal models turn into full agents that can plan, use tools, and act in environments. It categorizes concrete methods, datasets, and benchmarks, with examples in GUI agents, robotics, healthcare, and autonomous driving.
Plus, our guides on AI agents are always there for you for clarify each aspect of agentic workflows.
