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Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 01/26/2024

Agents/Copilots

Researcher Jim Fan presents the next grand challenge in the quest for AI: the “foundation agent,” which would seamlessly operate across both the virtual and physical worlds. He explains how this technology could fundamentally change our lives — permeating everything from video games and metaverses to drones and humanoid robots — and explores how a single model could master skills across these different realities.

How design drove $10M in preorders for Rabbit R1 AI hardware

In an expansive interview, Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu shares how he collaborates with Teenage Engineering, why he didn’t want to make a phone, and how the R1’s retro-future design is key to the company’s strategy.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91013196/how-design-drove-10m-in-pre-orders-for-rabbit-r1-ai-hardware

GPT SWITCHING IS HERE! You can switch between multiple GPT agents in one conversation on ChatGPT

guidde is the generative AI platform for business that helps your team create video documentation 11x faster

https://www.guidde.com

AI answering service

https://www.qlary.ai

AI Lawyer: your personal legal AI assistant

https://ailawyer.pro

ChatGPT’s ability to use documents can actually be a curse, since the documents can fill up the same context window as the prompt. By deliberately using documents that GPT-4 cannot natively read, you can actually improvise a better retrieval system.

Apple seems to be working on using GPT directly in Siri as reported by 9to5Mac. Here’s some insights I found from the iOS 17.4 IPSW 

Apple aims to run AI models directly on iPhones, other devices

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2024/01/apple-aims-to-run-ai-models-directly-on-iphones-other-devices

Report: Apple Making ‘Significant’ Push to Bring AI to iPhones

Report: Apple Making ‘Significant’ Push to Bring AI to iPhones

Pinch to Summarize AI Text Gestures

SuperHuman writes emails

Write (or speak), and AI will write your full email, matching your own voice and tone.

https://superhuman.com

Brave Leo, the AI browser assistant, now features Mixtral for improved performance

With today’s desktop browser update (v1.62), we are excited to announce that we have integrated Mixtral 8x7B as the default large language model (LLM) in Leo, our recently released, privacy-preserving AI browser assistant.

https://brave.com/leo-mixtral

Adept Fuyu-Heavy: A new multimodal model (with demo video)

We’re excited to introduce Adept Fuyu-Heavy, a new multimodal model designed specifically for digital agents. Fuyu-Heavy is the world’s third-most-capable multimodal model, behind only GPT4-V and Gemini Ultra, which are 10-20 times bigger. 

https://www.adept.ai/blog/adept-fuyu-heavy

AI Meetings Notes 

https://www.withbroadcast.com

Search Rebuilt for AI

The Exa API retrieves the best content on the web using embeddings-based search

https://exa.ai

The AI phones are coming

We’re tired of tapping through apps on our phones all day. Can Samsung show us an AI tool to save us?https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/16/24040562/samsung-unpacked-galaxy-ai-s24

Be Sure To Read “This Week In AI”

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AI News #17: Week Ending 01/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 12 Stories

The post you just read is an extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.

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One response to “Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 01/26/2024”

  1. AI News #17: Week Ending 01/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top-12 Stories – Ethan B. Holland

    […] Agency/Agents/Copilots News of the Week: Agency is when AI can do things for you (like Googling an actress name or fetching the latest weather forecast). An agent is one step further, when AI given autonomy to take action on your behalf (“Alexa, book a reservation for three at Peak in Hudson Yards for Friday night”). A co-pilot is an assistant (like spell check or autofill).This weeks’s latest agent news: https://ethanbholland.com/2024/02/05/agents-and-copilots-ai-news-week-ending-01-26-2024/ […]

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