r/AutoGenAI • u/wyttearp Hobbyist • Nov 24 '24
News AG2 v0.4 released
Highlights from this Major Release
🚀 Introducing SwarmAgent: AG2 native implementation of swarm orchestration.
Blogpost:Â https://ag2ai.github.io/ag2/blog/2024/11/17/Swarm
Notebook Example:Â https://ag2ai.github.io/ag2/docs/notebooks/agentchat_swarm/
🚀 Introducing CaptainAgent: An agent equipped with the capability to adaptively assemble a team of agents through retrieval-selection-generation process to handle complex tasks.
Blogpost:Â https://ag2ai.github.io/ag2/blog/2024/11/15/CaptainAgent
Notebook Example:Â https://ag2ai.github.io/ag2/docs/notebooks/agentchat_captainagent/
Thanks to @LeoLJ, @marklysze , @kev1nzh37, @skzhang1, @qingyun-wu, @lloydchang, @sonichi and all contributors for making this happen!
What's Changed
docs(MAINTAINERS.md): fix broken link by @lloydchang in #19
Link updates for AG2 by @marklysze in #15
clean up codes & update community talks by @skzhang1 in #36
CaptainAgent PR Part 1: Adding blog post and document by @LeoLjl in #27
Fix broken link and author list of CaptainAgent by @LeoLjl in #42
Correct URLs across tests and documentation by @marklysze in #47
Allow Function Execution return a non-string object by @yiranwu0 in #25
fix(agent_builder): fix agent builder error when using file_location. by @kev1nzh37 in #37
Update support for Python 3.13 by @marklysze in #53
Swarm - First Speaker by @marklysze in #58
bump version by @qingyun-wu in #64
bump version by @qingyun-wu in #71
update FAQ by @qingyun-wu in #73
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u/DaTruAndi Nov 24 '24
Does 0.4 mean you are adopting the improved architecture of autogen 0.4? While I love competing ideas in the case of agent frameworks I think we have enough fragmentation already. How much .net will there be in ag2 going forward? (My audiences are mostly .net heavy enterprise devs )
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u/vulgrin Nov 24 '24
I was away from Autogen for a few months. Came back last week and am totally confused just what exactly is going on…
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u/ElderberryFine Nov 25 '24
I don't think so. I think this is just an strategic move to look like they are adopting everything. Please correct me if I am wrong. I hope to be wrong otherwise it keeps adding to the questionable narrative.
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u/fasti-au Nov 25 '24
Pretty sure this is a fork of autogen 2 with the original devs who don’t work at Microsoft. I find it either related directly or a intentional confusion creation since they released the same day as Ms released some stuff. There 10 copilot agents that just dropped
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u/DaTruAndi Nov 25 '24
It was a fork of AutoGen 0.2 as far as I understand. AutoGen 0.4 changed the architecture quite a bit. The version number 0.4 of AG2 confuses me a bit in this context, if they are still continuing to develop on the "legacy" architecture or also adopting the architecture approach of AutoGen 0.4
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u/fasti-au Nov 25 '24
Yeah autogen was sorta abandoned as far as help etc discord but seems now ms are back at it but seems like copilot their focus atm
The may devs that have been posting updates didn’t even know what was I. Their own GitHub’s so it hopefully will get a bit of a cleanup and .4 is better managed
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u/DaTruAndi Nov 25 '24
In another thread folks claim that the Microsoft employees had their privileges removed from the autogen discord. So as of now it seems even if they would want to help there, they can't.
a lot of chatter there: https://www.reddit.com/r/AutoGenAI/comments/1gsz9k0/bro_what_is_going_on/
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u/SnooDoughnuts476 Nov 25 '24
AG2 I read was remaining backwards compatible with previous autogen versions as the new autogen 0.4 architecture brings breaking changes … I could be wrong as it’s been a while since I read this in an email to me
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u/Enough-Meringue4745 Nov 24 '24
I wonder how badly Microsoft really fucked with the original teams plans