a sunny day with blue skies. an apple orchard with a travel agency themed barn. a wooden sign says “Agency” –ar 4:3 –style raw –personalize 9zxyhz8
Amazon
How Amazon blew Alexa’s shot to dominate AI, according to employees who worked on it | Fortune
“Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa & has/had 10,000 people working on it. It is all obsolete. To the extent that it is completely exceeded by the new Siri powered mostly by a tiny 3B LLM running on a phone. What happened? This thread suggests organizational issues” / X
Apple
This week, there is so much Apple news around agents that I am sending everyone to the Apple category. Just click on the week of 06/14/2024.
Siri
“Siri can now take commands *within* apps
“Everyone’s expecting a reborn Siri at WWDC today. Well, Apple already published a paper on it that disclosed way more details than what we expect from Apple. It’s called “Ferret-UI”, a multimodal vision-language model that understands icons, widgets, and text on iOS mobile
. Apple Intelligence will allow Siri to have on-screen awareness and take actions on a user’s behalf
iOS 18 Siri – AI, advanced in-app features, more features
“Everyone gets an exec assistant with Siri. Siri will summarize your emails, with intelligence summaries, (not just first lines on the email) Also time sensitive emails will be prioritized at the top (dinner tonight, flights)
Other Agent News
“This is a great little example of how simple agent-based systems can lead to emergent behavior, even with tiny AIs like Apple’s on-device LLM. Matt Webb built a demo AI smart home, when he asks it “turn on the light for my dog” the home figures out how.
Asana’s ‘AI teammates’ aim to automate project management – Fast Company
“Synthflow, an AI startup building conversational AI agents a new multilingual update to the platform. AI call assistants can now communicate in nearly any language, in any voice
“Today we’re announcing the $6M seed round for @brightwaveio led by @DecibelVC and with participation from @p72vc and @Moonfire_VC. We are building an AI research assistant that generates insightful, trustworthy financial analysis on any subject and have customers with assets
“Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs? At Sakana AI, we’re pioneering AI-driven methods to automate AI research and discovery. We’re excited to release DiscoPOP: a new SOTA preference optimization algorithm that was discovered and written by an LLM!
“Mixture of Agents—a framework that leverages the collective strengths of multiple LLMs. Each layer contains multiple agents that refine responses using outputs from the preceding layer. Together MoA achieves a score of 65.1% on AlpacaEval 2.0.
“Zeta Labs came out of stealth, a new AI agent startup built by former Meta Engineers. The startup unveiled ‘Jace,’ an AI agent capable of executing complex browser tasks autonomously, similar to CognitionLabs’ Devin.
“Today we’re thrilled to introduce Jace, your AI employee. Jace goes beyond AI chatbots by being able to handle longer-running tasks and taking actions in the digital world. By using our new AWA-1 (Autonomous Web Agent) model, Jace can use a browser to interact with websites
Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?
AI Will Become Mathematicians’ ‘Co-Pilot’ | Scientific American
Fueling the Future: CaseMark Raises $1.7M to Empower Attorneys with AI
“Our AI voice assistants are now multilingual! They can fluently communicate in Spanish, German, Portuguese, and French, in addition to English. From Madrid to Berlin, from São Paulo to Paris, our AI voice assistants are ready to assist your customers in their preferred
How to Use AI to Create Role-Play Scenarios for Your Students | Harvard Business Publishing Education
Morgan Stanley CEO says AI could save financial advisers 10-15 hours a week | Reuters
Michael Kors first to debut Shopping Muse, the AI-powered shopping assistant from Dynamic Yield by Mastercard | Mastercard Newsroom
LinkedIn leans on AI to do the work of job hunting | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/13/linkedin-leans-on-ai-to-do-the-work-of-job-hunting/
Heads up! You’ve scrolled to the end of this category. There may have been just one or two links (above), so go back up and double check to be sure you didn’t quickly scroll down past it.
Be Sure To Read This Week’s Main Post:
This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #37: Week Ending 06/14/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 7 Must-Read Links
The post you just read is an deep dive 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.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
- Andrej Karpathy: https://x.com/karpathy
- Brett Adcock: https://x.com/adcock_brett
- Florent Daudens: https://x.com/fdaudens
- Ate-a-Pi: https://x.com/8teAPi
- Francesco Marconi: https://x.com/fpmarconi
- Charlie Beckett: https://x.com/CharlieBeckett
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
Thanks for reading!
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