v1.2.0

What's Changed

Big features:

• Add an OpenAIServerModel by @Zetaphor in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/109
  • This unlocks using any OpenAI-format-compatible server like TGI or vLLM.
• Enable smolagent tools in Hugging Chat! 🚀 in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/132
  • Demo incoming!
• Vastly simplify Model class ✨ in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/146
  • Now Model subclasses have only one __call__ method: if arg tools_to_call_from is passed, this method will return a tool call instead of just a string.
• Halve import time by removing torch dependency in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/147
  • Following up on https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/issues/100 raised by @xianminx, removing dependency on torch allowed to halve the library loading time!
• Support OpenTelemetry in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/136
  • This is still cooking, more stuff needs to be done, but we'll have observability!

Other important features

• Include missing pip install library in RAG example by @DarwinAnim8or in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/92
• Update rag.md with missing verb by @derekalia in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/95
• Small tweaks to Gradio demo by @freddyaboulton in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/93
• Fixing spelling and grammar for query by @omarirfa in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/98
• Fix Spelling Errors in Documentation by @ScientistIzaak in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/99
• Change DuckDuckGoSearchTool output_type to string by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/116
• Auto correct wrong assignments to final_answer by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/123
• Adding "complex" to local_python_executor.py #78 by @joaopauloschuler in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/79
• Remove dependency on LiteLLM by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/126
• Support multiple code blobs by @aymeric-roucher in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/128
• Fix several typos in docs. by @Symbolk in https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pull/140

Great thanks for everyone who participated!