The yellow brick road from Wizard of Oz stretches out to the horizon. The emerald city is made out of computers and circuitry. A gilded sign on the side of the road reads “100M Token Context Window”. A banner stretched across the road says “Magic” in simple bold black text.
Amazon
Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic’s AI for Alexa revamp | Reuters
Amazon aims to launch an AI Alexa in October, with a subscription – The Washington Post
Amazon to Launch New AI-Powered Alexa Using Anthropic’s Claude – MacRumors
“In conversations, a lot of companies seem to be getting benefit out of the ability for anyone to easily create shareable GPTs. Now Google is rolling out Gems, its GPT-equivalent. I find it surprising that Microsoft has gone the opposite way, making creating copilots quite hard.” / X
Magic
Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others | TechCrunch
100M Token Context Windows — Magic
“Magic’s new AI model has a 100M token context window, insane For non-AI nerds, that means the model can ingest and understand up to 750 novels worth of text, essential for useful autonomous AI agents The previous leader was Google DeepMind with a 10M context window in research
“LTM-2-Mini is our first model with a 100 million token context window. That’s 10 million lines of code, or 750 novels. Full blog:
Siri
Report: Apple working on next-gen humanlike AI ‘personality’ that’s not Siri
Other Agent News
“🤖 From this week’s issue: An LLM-based Multi-agent Framework of Web Search Engine (like
“Great to chat with @James_Kachamila from @SellagenInc about their Large Action Model (LAM) codenamed Nelima.
Cognition AI Raises $175M at $2B Valuation, One Month After Series A
Fetch.ai launches Innovation Lab with $10M fund for startups
Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor — with Aman Sanger of Anysphere
“We’ve raised $60M from Andreessen Horowitz, Jeff Dean, John Schulman, Noam Brown, and the founders of Stripe and Github. Cursor has become recognized as the best way to code with AI, powered by an ensemble of custom and frontier models, delightful editing, and petabyte-scale” / X
The Rise of the AI Engineer – by swyx & Alessio
Codeium Reaches $1.25B Valuation with $150M Series C Funding Led by General Catalyst | Business Wire
“Just had a 30min interview with @AtomSilverman of @AgentOpsAI about @agency______ 🤯🤯🤯 ADAM IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL. If you get the chance to speak with him, it’s clear why his startup is doing Mach 10 in forming #AgenticAI. Interview coming!🔥 #AgencyAI
“Finally, connections. Usually I’m not too good at this but today I was on a roll and only made one mistake. Claude was close but couldn’t quite figure it out and quickly spent all the mistakes. Alex – 3 Claude – 3
SoundHound AI Announces Partnership With MUSC Health To Transform Patient Access With AI Agents – SoundHound
GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation | TechCrunch
“Generate over 10,000+ words in just one minute with LongWriter and then deploy with vllm. This is based on the recent “LongWriter” paper, where they introduced AgentWrite pipeline that decomposes ultra-long generation tasks into subtasks. It enables off-the-shelf LLMs to
(2) ICLR 2024 — Best Papers & Talks (Benchmarks, Reasoning & Agents) — ft. Graham Neubig, Aman Sanger, Moritz Hardt)
“Excited to share that Agency AI from the team behind @AgentOpsAI has secured $2.6M in funding from @645ventures, @AforeVC, @bentossell & a few incredible angels. We’ve personally built and reviewed hundreds of AI agents and are excited to continue helping startups and fortune
Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot | TechCrunch
“We launched Artifacts on iOS and Android today! I’ve spent all morning replicating simple games with Claude. We nearing the era of mobile apps created in real-time by LLMs.
“Today, marks a major milestone for us. We’ve closed our series A with $22M in funding. As we emerge from stealth, we wanted to formally introduce you to Bland, Your newest AI employee. Bland is a customizable phone calling agent that sounds just like a human. It can:
“One of my “AGI-ish” tests is to ask an AI agent to create an isochronic map, with a starting point 40 miles due west of Pittsburgh. It involves complex reasoning, research, and tool use. No AI is close, yet.” / X
“🆕 fully autonomous sales agents, Einstein SDR Agent & Einstein Sales Coach Agent are coming soon to #DF24. See how @Accenture plans to use agents on the Agentforce Platform to improve effectiveness, support more deals, and focus on complex deals:
Coinbase sees first crypto transaction between AI agents
“We chant in English (prompting), and silicon bricks learn to control a set of metal (Optimus) to manipulate other sets of atoms. Inanimate components are being brought to life by invisible tokens from a neural network. If this isn’t magic I don’t know what is.” / X
“Agentic RAG for Time Series Analysis Proposes an agentic RAG framework for time series analysis. Uses a multi-agent architecture where an agent orchestrates specialized sub-agents to complete time-series tasks. The sub-agents leverage tuned small language models and can
NVIDIA and Global Partners Launch NIM Agent Blueprints for Enterprises to Make Their Own AI | NVIDIA Newsroom
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