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Albert Zhao

@_AlbertZhao

dx engineer for Strands Agents @awscloud, ex @cloudflare

 New York, USA
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Joined September 2016
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Robots are at @datadoghq for Agents In NYC event with @OpenAI and @awscloud 🤖
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@MayoChandlerOct 28
At Agents in NYC tonight, hosted by Datadog. Talks from @datadoghq on evals, @OpenAI on voice agents with GPT-Live-1.1, and Strands (@awscloud) on bidirectional agents and physical AI with a humanoid robot. Sharp crowd, good conversations. #AgenticAI luma.com/agentsinnyc
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@devcagatayOct 31
Sprout 🌱❤️ Strands Agents embodied Sprouts from Fauna Robotics. Powering speech to speech, and real-time control through natural language. Sprout is THE BEST developer kit for building agentic robotics, today!
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Need you all to know I’ve been campaigning with the strands team to put pink nails 💅 on this robot I have bought the nails, they’re in my office desk, please join my campaign to bring this diva to life
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@brooke_jamiesonOct 28
Pulling up to the @_AlbertZhao fan club meeting
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you can't beat the view from the nyt building thank u datadog
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@brooke_jamiesonOct 28
Pulling up to the @_AlbertZhao fan club meeting
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im co-organizing the largest meetup on agents in New York gonna present with openai on voice agents using strands and the phenomenal gpt-live-1.1 not too late to rsvp for this wednesday: luma.com/agentsinnyc
Agents in NYC · Luma

Agents in NYC · Luma

Opening night for the largest agents meetup in New York! We’ll meet once every two months, so come meet builders running agents that range from production…

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At the Royal Wedding with @Jonnymagic00 Congrats A+A!!!
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morgan
@MorgantWillisOct 6
back in july, I put an ai agent in a big mouth billy bass bringing billai to life. some of you asked how (or why). well, now that bidirectional streaming is GA in strands, I wrote up a deep dive on the the whole thing 🐟
What Bringing a Big Mouth Billy Bass to Life With AI Taught Me About Voice Agents

What Bringing a Big Mouth Billy Bass to Life With AI Taught Me About Voice Agents

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Strands Bidi Agents are now GA. You can use it for real actual business use cases, or you can use it to make a ✨ Docs Diva ✨ who brings the reciepts. Whatever you are building, just get started with pip install "strands-agents[bidi-all,bidi-pyaudio]" strandsagents.com/blog/bidi-…

Strands Hotline - Dial the docs (the diva has receipts)

Strands Bidi Agents are now Generally Available. Please enjoy this highly professional demo.

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New launch from Strands: Introducing Strands Decider 2B! It's a small, open source, decision model and I can't wait to see what you build with it. strandsagents.com/blog/intro… @awsdevelopers

Introducing Strands Decider 2B: a small, open source, decision model

AWS Engineers just open-sourced a model that can't write a single word, and I used it to sort through all 2000+ re:Invent sessions right from my laptop!

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excited to see cloudflare's clef! we also released a decision model built from qwen, except we show both the training data and weights on @huggingface. strands decider, clef, and other decision models gna be huge for agent latency as they replace some LLM calls strandsagents.com/blog/intro…
Introducing Strands Decider 2B: a small, open source, decision model

Introducing Strands Decider 2B: a small, open source, decision model

Strands Decider 2B is a small, open source, decision model optimized for fast experimentation, local development, and innovation.

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Your agent has a context budget, and this brand new launch will help you to make the most of it. Strands Harness packages the defaults around the model, and across 6 benchmarks, it used 28% fewer tokens with nearly equal scores (!!!) strandsagents.com/blog/intro…

Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost

Start with a fully assembled agent harness: pip install strands-harness. Get context management, tools, memory, and room to customise what matters.

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morgan
@MorgantWillisSep 22
Spend less time building your agent harness and more time on what makes your agent different. I took Strands harness for a spin and built a docs maintainer agent that runs in GitHub Actions, uses skills, and remembers context across runs. Here’s how ↓
Stop Starting From Scratch: Build Agents with Strands harness

Stop Starting From Scratch: Build Agents with Strands harness

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Today we're releasing Strands harness, a fully assembled state-of-the-art agent harness you can easily run locally or deploy to your favorite provider. It delivers frontier performance at 28% lower token cost than comparable harnesses while matching or beating them on accuracy. Much of that efficiency comes from smart defaults the team baked in, like prompt caching and context management that truncates bulky tool results. It's open source under Apache 2.0 and builders can customize it all the way down to the SDK. Nice work here from @MarcJBrooker and the team. Get started in just one line of Python or TypeScript, across Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or a local model: strandsagents.com/blog/intro…
Introducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost

Introducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost

Strands harness is a fully assembled, customizable, state-of-the-art agent you run locally or deploy anywhere.

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Clare Liguori
@clare_liguoriSep 22
Really excited about Strands harness - outperforms Claude Code and Codex, with a great devex that the Strands team does so well, Typescript AND Python
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Today we're excited to share Strands Harness. Strands Harness makes it easier to build reliable, cost-effective, agents with any model. It's open source, too! And equal or better performance to proprietary harnesses with 28% fewer tokens!
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The team and I really tried to make the harness go brrrr
Marc Brooker (@MarcJBrooker) profile pictureMarc Brooker@MarcJBrookerSep 21
Today we're excited to share Strands Harness. Strands Harness makes it easier to build reliable, cost-effective, agents with any model. It's open source, too! And equal or better performance to proprietary harnesses with 28% fewer tokens!
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Replying to @devcagatay
@devcagatay and I put Opus 5 into a robot! Strands Robots partnered with Anthropic on the Model Hardware Standard (research preview). Soon agents can control a robot fleet safely
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More info on how you can participate, especially when @pollenrobotics ships your microduck: strandsagents.com/blog/robot…
Robots working together: connecting agents to the physical world with Strands Robots and the Model...

Robots working together: connecting agents to the physical world with Strands Robots and the Model...

How Strands Robots lets agents read from and act on many robots and devices at once, across Zenoh, AWS IoT, and the new Model Hardware Standard (MHS), in simulation and the real world.

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Cagatay Cali
@devcagataySep 9
I was so excited to speak about Model Hardware Standard and Strands Agents! youtu.be/aYw_wYERj8w I guess I am YouTuber now?!
AWS Partners with Anthropic on the Model Hardware Standard

AWS Partners with Anthropic on the Model Hardware Standard

MHS (Model Hardware Standard) brings an open standard for agents an...

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please enjoy the silliest blog header I've made in a long time builder.aws.com/content/3Isg…
ok so hear me out: this is a blog header image of a robot holding a box, but also the box is printed with Brooke Jamieson's face, and then next to this it says "Strands Robots" and "How a robot becomes an agent tool"

ALT ok so hear me out: this is a blog header image of a robot holding a box, but also the box is printed with Brooke Jamieson's face, and then next to this it says "Strands Robots" and "How a robot becomes an agent tool"

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@MorgantWillisSep 4
GPT-6 Astra just scored 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 using a provider-specific harness. A Strands agent previously scored 99.95% RHAE across all 25 public environments with Claude Opus 5. The Strands harness is open source strandsagents.com/blog/our-p…
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