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Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 02/23/2024

March 2, 2024

Adobe

“Adobe just launched an AI chatbot in beta for Acrobat to make navigating long documents easier with AI summaries. In other words, they made a native ‘Chat PDF’. It works with PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints and more. https://t.co/uU4JeXlPCo” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1760170074554437723

Adobe – Adobe Brings Conversational AI to Trillions of PDFs with the New AI Assistant in Reader and Acrobat – https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Brings-Conversational-AI-to-Trillions-of-PDFs-with-the-New-AI-Assistant-in-Reader-and-Acrobat/default.aspx

Magic – A Company To Know

“In this morning’s AI Agenda: AI coding startup Magic has apparently made a breakthrough in AI reasoning, similar to OpenAI’s Q*. That could have been a major factor in their recent $100MM round. W/ @amir: https://t.co/EjL82ovdbU” / X – https://twitter.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1760336550427304153

“Magic announced a $117M raise led by former Github CEO Nat Friedman. The company is building frontier-scale AI code models, seeking to build an ‘AI software engineer’ on the path towards AGI. https://t.co/IK5aLOt0HR” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1758315253614477769

The ‘Magic’ Breakthrough That Got Friedman and Gross to Bet $100 Million on a Coding Startup — The Information – https://www.theinformation.com/articles/the-magic-breakthrough-that-got-friedman-and-gross-to-bet-100-million-on-a-coding-startup

Other Agent News

Sierra – The Conversational AI Platform – https://sierra.ai/

How Bret Taylor’s new company is rethinking customer experience in the age of AI | TechCrunch – https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/19/sierra-ai-agents-customer-service/

Google Chrome introduces experimental AI writing feature – https://blog.google/products/chrome/google-chrome-ai-help-me-write/

“You can now rate GPTs and provide private feedback directly to the builder. https://t.co/0HHTxPNNb4” / X – https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1760744915276116118

“LinkedIn just made landing your dream job 3x easier with AI. From AI-powered writing suggestions to custom call-to-action buttons, these features boost your response rate by a staggering 43% from recruiters. Check them out here: https://t.co/DLUhQGwZvR” / X – https://twitter.com/youneedarobot/status/1761362365696905469

“Apple is building a new AI coding tool for Xcode to rival Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot. The tool is aimed to improve developer efficiency and potentially reduce costs. My eyes are on WWDC in June for some big Apple AI reveals 👀 https://t.co/PhJnuwlguz” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1759443326116270431

“Lastly for Google’s AI updates today is the full launch of its ‘Help Me Write’ tool (powered by Gemini). The new feature allows users to generate AI writing or revisions with a single click. https://t.co/67LJopNb9H” / X – https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1760900399421149343

“🤯 Mind officially blown: I recorded a screen capture of a task (looking for an apartment on Zillow). Gemini was able to generate Selenium code to replicate that task, and described everything I did step-by-step. It even caught that my threshold was set to $3K, even though I… https://t.co/IU7kvnYHlt” / X – https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1760537379369304309

“New today: image understanding! We’ve enabled GPT-4v in all GPT-4 conversations, AND added LLaVa-based image understanding for almost all other bots on Poe. You can add images directly to your conversations using the attachment button next to the input box. (1/3) https://t.co/1Rj0i5U9Xe” / X – https://twitter.com/poe_platform/status/1760351082780438732

Apple Developing AI Tool to Help Developers Write Code for Apps – MacRumors – https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/15/apple-xcode-ai-tool-for-coding/

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Retell AI – API That Turns Your LLM Into A Human-Like Voice Agent – YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LT64_mgkro

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AI News #21: Week Ending 02/23/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 36 Stories

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