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Description

This PR updates the app.py starter template to use the modern InferenceClientModel class instead of the legacy HfApiModel class.

Motivation

As outlined in the core smolagents documentation and recent course text materials, HfApiModel has been deprecated and phased out in newer releases of the framework. Keeping HfApiModel in the base template causes breaking ImportError or deprecation runtime warnings for students trying to run their first agents locally or on newer environments.

Aligning this template with the actual course reading material will drastically reduce friction for beginners joining the course!

Changes

• Swapped HfApiModel import to InferenceClientModel from smolagents.
• Updated the model instantiation block to use InferenceClientModel.