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Up-and-Coming Startups: AI agents and infrastructure dominate CB Insights’ Top 100 AI Startups list
AI agents and infrastructure made a strong showing on CB Insights’s latest list of the top 100 AI startups.
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Open Standard for Tool Use and Data Access Gains Momentum: OpenAI adopts Model Context Protocol to boost LLM tool integration
OpenAI embraced Model Context Protocol, providing powerful support for an open standard that connects large language models to tools and data.
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Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.
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Budget for Reasoning to the Token: Claude 3.7 Sonnet adds extended thinking mode
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
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Mobile Apps to Order: Replit’s agent-powered mobile app expands to full app development
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.
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Tree Search for Web Agents: How tree search improves AI agents’ ability to browse the web and complete tasks
Browsing the web to achieve a specific goal can be challenging for agents based on large language models and even for vision-language models that can process onscreen images of a browser.
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Agents Go Deep: OpenAI’s Deep Research agent generates detailed reports by analyzing web sources
OpenAI introduced a state-of-the-art agent that produces research reports by scouring the web and reasoning over what it finds.
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Okay, But Please Don’t Stop Talking: Moshi, an open alternative to OpenAI’s Realtime API for Speech
Even cutting-edge, end-to-end, speech-to-speech systems like ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode tend to get interrupted by interjections like “I see” and “uh-huh” that keep human conversations going. Researchers built an open alternative that’s designed to go with the flow of overlapping speech.
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Training for Computer Use: UI-TARS shows strong computer use capabilities in benchmarks
As Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and others roll out agents that are capable of computer use, new work shows how underlying models can be trained to do this.
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Computer Use Gains Momentum: OpenAI’s Operator automates online tasks with a new AI agent
OpenAI introduced an AI agent that performs simple web tasks on a user’s behalf.
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Mustafa Suleyman: Agents of action
In 2025, AI will have learned to see, it will be way smarter and more accurate, and it will start to do things on your behalf.
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Agents Ascendant: LLMs evolve with agentic workflows, enabling autonomous reasoning and collaboration
The AI community laid the foundation for systems that can act by prompting large language models iteratively, leading to much higher performance across a range of applications.