Business
Amazon Onboards Adept: Amazon adds majority of Adept AI staff to boost agentic AI capabilities
Amazon hired most of the staff of agentic-AI specialist Adept AI in a move that echoes Microsoft’s absorption of Inflection in March.
Generative Agents
Machine Learning Research
Benchmarks for Agentic Behaviors: New LLM benchmarks for Tool Use and Planning in workplace tasks
Tool use and planning are key behaviors in agentic workflows that enable large language models (LLMs) to execute complex sequences of steps. New benchmarks measure these capabilities in common workplace tasks.
Tech & Society
One Agent, Many Environments: SIMA, a system that understands and plays diverse 3D video games
AI agents are typically designed to operate a particular software environment. Recent work enabled a single agent to take actions in a variety of three-dimensional virtual worlds.
Machine Learning Research
Cutting the Cost of Pretrained Models: FrugalGPT, a method to cut AI costs and maintain quality
Research aims to help users select large language models that minimize expenses while maintaining quality.
Machine Learning Research
Learning Language by Exploration: Agent develops language skills through simulated exploration tasks
Machine learning models typically learn language by training on tasks like predicting the next word in a given text. Researchers trained a language model in a less focused, more human-like way.
Machine Learning Research
LLMs Get a Life: The generative agents that mimic human behavior in a simulated town
Large language models increasingly reply to prompts with a believably human response. Can they also mimic human behavior?