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Amazon
Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions – WSJ
Langchain
“💡 Few-shot prompting to improve tool-calling performance At LangChain, we’ve been exploring how to improve LLM tool-calling performance with few-shot prompting. We ran a few experiments across models and tasks to see how incorporating few-shot examples could enhance model
“We ship a lot – we’re trying to communicate everything we’re shipping better To that – check out the new LangChain Changelog” / X
Microsoft Copilot News
“Microsoft researchers just published new research introducing ‘SpreadsheetLLM’ and ‘SheetCompressor’ It encodes spreadsheet data into a format that can be used by LLMs to process and understand spreadsheets better
Meta
“🤖💡Just tried out @AymericRoucher’s new LLaMA-3.1 70B agent for data analysis. Impressive stuff. 🚢📊 Fed it the Titanic passenger dataset with minimal instructions. The agent autonomously dug in, tested hypotheses, and reached some intriguing conclusions: “Lower class
“All the current models are getting into a good grad school, especially in the humanities. This includes the small, open Llama 3.1 70B model. Nice gains over the previous generations. (Yes, human tests are never a great way to judge models, but still interesting)
“Our big release today lets you get structured extraction capabilities in any LLM-powered ETL, RAG, and/or agent pipeline – with full support for async and streaming ✨ Simply define a Pydantic object, attach it to your LLM (`as_structured_llm(…)`). This allows you to do
“Zuck believes there could be more AI agents than people in the world. During our conversation, I asked Mark about his long-term vision of AI and AGI in the future. His response: Zuckerberg: “Our vision is that there should be a lot of different AI out there and AI services,
“Mark is an incredible CEO. What particularly stood out to me from our conversation was how deeply he thinks about open source and how it’ll benefit Meta (and the world) in the long term. A few of my favorite moments/quotes: On the future of AI agents: “I think we’re going to” / X
OpenAI
“We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources. We’re launching with a small group of users for feedback and plan to integrate the experience into ChatGPT.
SearchGPT Is OpenAI’s Direct Assault on Google | WIRED
SearchGPT is a prototype of new AI search features | OpenAI
OpenAI announces SearchGPT, its AI-powered search engine – The Verge
“Rolling out SearchGPT as a heavily caveated ‘prototype’ is smart because it allows OpenAI to dial in a UX that makes both users and publishers happy. Great opportunity for OAI to flex lucrative partnerships with the likes of News Corp and The Atlantic, while putting Bing Maps
Other Agent News
Harvey Raises Series C from Google Ventures, OpenAI, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Elad Gil, and SV Angel
“Imagine an AI application that can type anywhere you can and use the full context of what’s on your screen. This is the application we all deserve (at least if you have macOS.) Check out @OmnipilotAI. It’s an app that works with every other macOS application and uses Claude
“🔮What is the future of planning for agents? Yes – model improvements will help models get better at planning. But we think good prompting and custom cognitive architectures will always be needed to adapt agents to specific tasks.
This seems like pure hell.
Grow Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women
Unlocking Real-Time Chat… | TensorWave | The MI300X Cloud
“Do you know about the 10+ major launches and updates that Agent companies released this week? Here is a detailed breakdown of everything you need to know: 🧵
AssistantBench: Can Web Agents Solve Realistic and Time-Consuming Tasks?
Friend – An open source AI necklace
“I have said it before, but marketers need to think about how to advertise directly TO the LLMs. This isn’t SEO, it is something different. Especially as agents with autonomy start to appear” / X
“AI assistants have been improving but they still can’t answer complex but natural questions like “Which restaurants near me have vegan and gluten-free entrées for under $25?” Today we’re launching a new benchmark to evaluate this ability. I hope this leads to better assistants!” / X
“Can AI agents solve realistic, time-consuming web tasks such as “Which gyms near me have fitness classes on the weekend, before 7AM?” We introduce AssistantBench, a benchmark with 214 such tasks. Our new GPT-4 based agent gets just 25% accuracy!”
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AI News #43: Week Ending 07/26/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 97 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
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- 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
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