IT Services Circle
IT Services Circle
Apr 24, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

What’s the Real Difference Between LLMs and Agents? What Does an Agent Add?

The article explains that the fundamental gap between LLMs and Agents is state: LLMs perform single, stateless inferences, while Agents maintain execution history, intermediate results, and goal tracking to enable multi‑step, dynamic decision‑making, but this brings uncertainty, higher token costs, and debugging challenges.

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What’s the Real Difference Between LLMs and Agents? What Does an Agent Add?
Wu Shixiong's Large Model Academy
Wu Shixiong's Large Model Academy
Apr 20, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How to Build Multi‑Step Reasoning Training Data for Deep Research Agents

Standard QA datasets fall short for deep research tasks because they lack the multi‑step, dynamic reasoning required; this article explains why, outlines four data‑construction techniques—SailorFog‑QA, WebFrontier, WebShaper, E2HQA—details trajectory sampling, filtering, scale considerations, and interview‑ready explanations.

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How to Build Multi‑Step Reasoning Training Data for Deep Research Agents