Machine Learning Research
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.
AI Agents
Machine Learning Research
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.
Machine Learning Research
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.
Business
Competitive Performance, Competitive Prices: Amazon introduces Nova models for text, image, and video
Amazon introduced a range of models that confront competitors head-on.
Business
Agents Open the Wallet: Stripe builds ecommerce agent toolkit for AI to securely spend money
One of the world’s biggest payment processors is enabling large language models to spend real money.
Machine Learning Research
Free Agents: OpenHands launches as an open toolkit for advanced code generation and automation
An open source package inspired by the commercial agentic code generator Devin aims to automate computer programming and more.
Machine Learning Research
When Agents Train Algorithms: OpenAI’s MLE-bench tests AI coding agents
Coding agents are improving, but can they tackle machine learning tasks?
Machine Learning Research
Claude Controls Computers: Anthropic empowers Claude Sonnet 3.5 to operate desktop apps, but cautions remain
API commands for Claude Sonnet 3.5 enable Anthropic’s large language model to operate desktop apps much like humans do. Be cautious, though: It’s a work in progress.
Generative AI
Agentic Coding Strides Forward: Genie coding assistant outperforms competitors on SWE-bench by over 30 percent
An agentic coding assistant boosted the state of the art in an important benchmark by more than 30 percent.