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Aymeric (Emmerich)

Engineer, HuggingFace · 1 appearance on the record.

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Aymeric Roucher works at HuggingFace, where he develops the smolagents library. He also teaches and creates courses on building and evaluating AI agents.

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2 predictions · 1 assertion · 2 opinions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Aymeric argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Roucher: AI agents will reach a 90% GAIA score by 2026
“So I think if we solve Gaia, that's like 90% score. That means mostly we double productivity of every task done in front of a computer. And if you take the trend line of the scores so far this should be crossed in 2026 or something.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 16:12 smol agents are all you need

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Everything Aymeric (Emmerich) said on Latent Space that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Roucher: DeepSeek-R1 ranks slightly below OpenAI o1 on smolagents tasks
“I tried R one, but R one is a bit under O one with small agents. And I think this is also a matter of formatting. Like sometimes the model struggles to just output them, the code snippets in the correct way that we expect.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 14:25 smol agents are all you need
Prediction Held up
Roucher: AI agents will reach a 90% GAIA score by 2026
“So I think if we solve Gaia, that's like 90% score. That means mostly we double productivity of every task done in front of a computer. And if you take the trend line of the scores so far this should be crossed in 2026 or something.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 16:12 smol agents are all you need
Opinion
Roucher: Code agents perform better than JSON tool calling
“I found this is highly suboptimal, and that's why I've designed the other code agent, which is really like the core opinion in the library is that code agents work better.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 4:42 smol agents are all you need
Opinion
Roucher: Effective web browsing agents must use vision and direct GUI inputs
“Web browsing is designed for humans. So that means it's really visual. And so a web browsing agent, a good one, should use, in my opinion a vision model and perform actions with point and click and keyboard, basically.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 17:26 smol agents are all you need
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Roucher: Visual AI models will likely jump the reasoning S-curve in 2025
“But as with text agents, we've really found that we made a jump on the S curve with reasoning models. I think it's going to be the same with the next visual models, basically better base models just allow you to jump over this S curve. And probably I think it'…”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 21:21 smol agents are all you need
Disclosure
Roucher says Hugging Face plans to heavily prioritize GUI agents
“That's the next step for us at Hugging Face. We're going to push really hard on building GUI agents, so basically agents that can use any GUI.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 17:42 smol agents are all you need
Disclosure
Roucher: Hugging Face will fine-tune DeepSeek-R1 for agent workflows
“Looking forward to this, and for instance we're going to fine-tune R-One on agentic stuff, so we'll, we'll get really good powerhouse models soon.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 22:05 smol agents are all you need
Assertion Supported
Roucher: smolagents core agents.py file is under 1,000 lines
“The main file in it, the agents.py file that we have at the core of the library is under the 1000 lines of code.”
Aymeric (Emmerich) Feb 13, 2025 ▶ 3:40 smol agents are all you need

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
smol agents are all you need Feb 13, 2025 13m
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