An AI model's ability to recognise when it needs an external capability — like a calculator, a web search, or a database lookup — and trigger it automatically mid-conversation.
This is how an AI can give you today's weather or an accurate calculation — it's not guessing, it's calling a real tool and reading back the result.
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