Glossary · Letter F
Function Calling
A capability of modern LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini) to call external tools or APIs as part of generating a response. Function calling is what makes AI agents possible - the model decides which tool to call, with which parameters, then incorporates the result into its response. Without function calling, you have a chatbot. With it, you have an agent.
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