Over the past several years, we have moved from the machine learning era through the large language model era and into what researchers now call the agent era. But we did not arrive here overnight. A series of research contributions, each building on the last, have made agents progressively more capable. This podcast traces that timeline through the papers that shaped today's autonomous systems.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit llmsresearch.substack.com