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Agents and Copilots: AI News Week Ending 03/22/2024

March 22, 2024

Devin

“Cognition’s Devin showed off its autonomous AI agent skills in a new viral X post. The model was able to open a support ticket and exchange Slack messages to solve a coding issue on its own. Wild! https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1769509715384361313

“AI agents have real potential. I went back to Devin, the AI coder agent, after not using it for a day completely forgot that I assigned it to create a visualization of the economics of startup dilution. It plugged away and I came back to a solid draft that could be iterated on https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1769952871737364534

“I asked the Devin AI agent to go on reddit and start a thread where it will take website building requests It did that, solving numerous problems along the way. It apparently decided to charge for its work. Going to take it down before it fools anyone… https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1770128785494700333

“🤯 crazy exchange on @modal_labs slack between @cognition_labs ‘s Devin modal’s support team https://twitter.com/raunakdoesdev/status/1769066769786757375

“I’m blown away by Devin. Watch me use it for 27min. It’s insane. The era of AI agents has begun. https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1767985840448516343

O1

“Introducing the 01 Developer Preview. Order or build your own today: https://twitter.com/OpenInterpreter/status/1770821439458840846

Siri

“Apple just published a new paper unveiling MM1, a new family of multimodal AI models — with the largest at 30B parameters. My prediction: Siri 2.0 will be the next ‘ChatGPT moment’ for major AI adoption. Going in-depth on MM1 in the newsletter tomorrow: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1769509562380370035

“Siri getting a boost through Apple licensing Gemini would be the plot twist we never expected, but certainly need. After all, Google still pays Apple gobs of money to remain the default search engine, and Apple doesn’t seem to be as far along with their GenAI efforts.” / X – https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1769603052296892813

Apple in Talks to License Google Gemini for iPhone, iOS 18 Generative AI Tools – Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-18/apple-in-talks-to-license-google-gemini-for-iphone-ios-18-generative-ai-tools?srnd=undefined&sref=9hGJlFio&embedded-checkout=true

Other Agent News

“DEMO TIME! Customer service: Help a customer with a question about an order that did not arrive. This time the customer accidentally did not write the order ID correctly 😯 https://twitter.com/maisaAI_/status/1768757167807459697

“Introducing Maisa KPU: The next leap in AI reasoning capabilities. The Knowledge Processing Unit is a Reasoning System for LLMs that leverages all their reasoning power and overcomes their intrinsic limitations. https://twitter.com/maisaAI_/status/1768657114669429103

KPU – Maisa – https://maisa.ai/blog/kpu

Is the “AI developer”a threat to jobs – or a marketing stunt? – The Pragmatic Engineer – https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-ai-developer/

Microsoft debuts first Surface PCs with dedicated Copilot AI button – https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/21/microsoft-debuts-its-first-surface-pcs-with-dedicated-copilot-key.html

Ubisoft let me actually speak with its new AI-powered video game NPCs – The Verge – https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24105748/nvidia-neo-npc-prototypes-gdc-2024
Glowbom – https://glowbom.com/

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