Off the Bit
Tools: LangChain
Category: Models and AI infrastructure
Site: langchain.com
LangChain
The framework that popularised chaining model calls with tools and memory, now positioned as an agent engineering platform.
Defined the vocabulary, then had to defend it.
What it is sold for
Building applications that chain models, tools and memory.
Same shelf
The rest of models and ai infrastructure, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
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