Cheerful Friday. I came back from vacation and still caught me on everything I missed. Apparently, they are currently involved in researching scientists from AI, such as NBA transactions.
Before I get to the problem this week, I want to make sure you checked my interview with CEO of Pressionity Aravind Srinivas ON Decoder This week. This is a good deep diving on the main topic of today’s newsletter. Read on to get a measuring tape and more from this week in AI News.
From chatbots to browser
So far, when most people think about the contemporary AI boom, they think about chatbotie such as chatgpt. Now it is becoming more and more clear that another AI phase is shaping in the web browser.
The reason is plain: today’s chatbots do not have access to your online life, as your browser does. This level of context – reading and save access to e -mail, bank account, etc. – is required if artificial intelligence becomes a tool that actually turns off and does things for you.
The last two product editions indicate this trend. The first is the Chatgpt Openai agent, which uses the basic browser for surfing the Internet on your behalf. The second is a comet, a computer browser from embarrassment, which goes a step further, enabling enormous language models to access logged on your sites and performing tasks on your behalf. (It is said that Opeli is planning its full -fledged browser.)
Neither Agent ChatgPT nor Comet is currently reliable, and access to both is currently closed at high-priced subscription levels due to higher calculation costs required to launch the required reasoning models. Perhaps the most frustrating, both products say that they do things that they cannot, not only in marketing materials, but in the real experience of the product.
Agent Chatgpt is a reader’s experience only to read-it can not access the logged-on site, such as Comet-i, it seriously limits its usability. This is also very snail-paced. My colleague Hayden Field He asked to find a specific type of lamp on Etsy, and Agent Chatgpt took 50 minutes to return with the answer. It was also not possible to add items to her Etsy pram, even though she claimed that it did.
Although Comet is not so snail-paced, I had a lot of experience with her, claiming that she had completed tasks that there is not, or stating that he can do something, just to say immediately that I could not put a request. His side interface, which he places AI assistant to the right from the website, is perfect for reading tasks, such as a website summary or studying something specific I look at. But as I said CEO of Pressionity Aravind Srinivas ON Decoder This week, general experience seems quite feeble.
It is basic to be cynical and think that the current state of products such as Comet is the best artificial intelligence by performing tasks on the Internet. Or you can look at the last few years of progress in the industry and make a plant that the same trend line will continue.
During our chat this week, Srinivas told me that he “bet on the progress in the reasoning models to get us there.” Opeli has built a non -standard reasoning model especially for the ChatgPT agent, which was trained in the field of more convoluted, multi -stage tasks. (The model has no public name and is not available via the API interface.)
Even with many restrictions and mistakes that exist today, using Comet for just a few days convinced me that the mainstream chatbot interface would connect to the browser. It seems that going back to simply call chatbot versus interaction with experience similar to chatgpt, which can see any page I look at. Independent chatbots certainly do not leave, especially on smartphones, but the browser will unlock artificial intelligence, which actually seems to be an agent.
- What could have been for Suback: Before raising the newsletter platform $ 100 million round He announced this week, two sources tell me that the Vice Founder Shane smith He turned to Suback’s co -founders regarding the takeover of the company. It is not clear how far the talks were progressing, although Smith discussed this idea with potential financial supporters. Suback’s leadership rejected his interest in the takeover, but suggested that he could invest in a round they just closed. It is not clear if he did it. Neither Smith nor Suback responded to my request for comment.
- End of reverse buyers? When I was on vacation, it was compelling to watch intense reaction to Windsurf/Google Reverse Acquihire. This pattern, in which the founders of the buzzing AI startup in the arms of great technology and leave the rest of the band to pick up the songs, is nothing fresh. This is an unfortunate by -product of the antitrust control of great technology, which so far seems to come up with how to get what it wants, leaving the startup scales and calling his payments “license fees”. But considering how to get to know Sent Saving the remaining Windsurf team (“Each employee is treated with respect and well -kept in this transaction”), I wonder if the next starter of the start -ups AI will think twice before he leaves his team.
- The fresh AI Mira Murati laboratory will have a corner of the company. I am sure of this forecast after seeing who her financial supporters They are for her fresh laboratory, thinking of machines. Servicenow and Cisco do not invest in a chatgpt competitor. Given the level of talent that was collected, the industry will pay special attention to any “multimodal AI” product, which the band releases in the coming months. Is there a place for another anthropic rival to OpenAI? We’ll find out soon.
- AI researchers cannot get a visa. Neurlps, the most crucial AI research conference, has experienced such a high demand for this year’s event in San Diego that they have A second location has been added In Mexico to accommodate about 500 people. The announcement of the conference states that there was “difficulties in obtaining travel visas” for participants who want to take part in the main event in the USA. Yikes.
Some noteworthy career movements
- The fresh Superinteligence laboratory of Zuckerberg is becoming much larger. I saw this week Addition OpenAI’s Jason Wei AND Hyung won chungwhich means that the meta was poisoned with 5 out of 21 OPENAI “Primary colleagues” to o1. Augustus Odena AND Maxwell freshCo -founders of the AI Startup adept, which Amazon Reverse recorded to start his Agi laboratory, also joined, along with Mark Lee AND Tom Gunter from apple. Meanwhile, the whole team behind the voice of AI Startup Playai officially joined (Some companies are still compact enough for Massive Tech to be obtained). And in what should be an ominous signal for everyone in a wider group AI, currently undergoing dog -style interviews Alexandr Wang’s Modern team, product vice president Connor Hayes passed To start the threads.
- Anthropic’s head of engineering, Brian DelahuntyHe joined Google Cloud to conduct an AI agent engineering. Meanwhile, Boris Cherny AND Cat Wu He returned to Anthropic after an alarmingly miniature term for leadership roles in Cursor. Paul Smith He also leaves Servicenow as the first commercial director of Anthropik.
- Reddit CMO Roxy newborn He leaves something that seems to be a wider reshuffle of leadership.
- More brain drainage in Tesla: This time his Troy JonesChief of Sales of North America.
- Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and the head of HR Kristin Cabot (this couple from the Coldplay concert) They stayed on vacation In anticipation of an internal investigation.
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