AI RESEARCH
From Standalone LLMs to Integrated Intelligence: A Survey of Compound Al Systems
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2506.04565v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Compound AI Systems (CAIS) are an emerging paradigm that integrates large language models (LLMs) with external components, including retrievers, agents, tools, and orchestrators, to overcome the limitations of standalone models in tasks requiring memory, reasoning, real-time grounding, and multimodal understanding. These systems enable capable and context-aware behaviors by composing multiple specialized modules into cohesive workflows.