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Factory
“Today we are excited to announce the latest updates from Factory and the next steps in our mission to Bring Autonomy to Software Engineering. Droids are autonomous systems that solve problems for engineers. Not just in demos. Not just in simple repositories. In complex, production settings. Testing, debugging, refactoring, migrating, reviewing, documenting — world class organizations are accelerating their software development with Factory’s Droids.”
Series A Announcement
Other Agent News
“Dharmesh just built an AI tool that summarizes or answers any question about an email you forward. I’ve tried it, and it works great. It’s also 100% free. I probably sound like a broken record, but the future of AI and agents (and how the industry onboards the next 1B users) is by seamlessly integrating AI into existing workflows.”
“tl;dr: Forward an email to agent@agent.ai and ask a question at the top. — A big milestone for me is when I build software that I find myself using every day. I just hit that milestone with
“At Anthropic, everyone from non-technical people with no coding experience to tenured SWEs now use Claude to write code that saves them hours of time. Claude makes you feel like you have superpowers, suddenly no problem is too ambitious. The future of programming is here folks.” / X
“Reid Hoffman says everyone will soon have AI agents to help them navigate the world while some people will choose to have digital twins, and it will be startling how soon this will happen
“Information overload? 📚 MagicNotes is your lifeline! Here’s how we transformed a 2-hour lecture into concise, organized notes in minutes. Try it for free:
“Claire Vo (@clairvo) built @chatprd —on-demand chief product officer, powered by AI. It’s now used by over 10,000 product managers and is pulling in six figures in revenue. The best part? She built all of ChatPRD herself—over the weekend—with AI, while working a day job.
Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot | TechCrunch
“Genius. A Home Assistant user hooked up GPT-4 Vision with their security cameras and now can do things like find items in their home.
“Claude is starting to get really good at coding and autonomously fixing pull requests. It’s becoming clear that in a year’s time, a large percentage of code will be written by LLMs. Let me show you what I mean:” / X
“Notion launched ‘AI connectors’, a new feature that connects Slack and Google Drive to Notion AI. This will be massive for people who live in both Notion/Slack, like me
character.ai | Personalized AI for every moment of your day
“Character AI is serving 20,000 QPS. Here are the technologies we use to serve hyper-efficiently. [
“Character ai is doing 20% as many queries per second as Google!? What the fuck???? That’s insane.
Optimizing AI Inference at Character.AI
Asana AI for Work & Project Management • Asana • Asana
Synthflow AI
Al Voice Assistants That Sound Human, Drive Resultshttps://synthflow.ai/
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AI News #38: Week Ending 06/21/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 91 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
- Safe Intelligence, Inc.
- 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
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