TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just dropped DIY tools to build custom...
Rowan Cheung@rowancheung
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Mar 12, 2025
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just dropped DIY tools to build custom autonomous AI agents
Plus, more news from Meta, Reka, Cartesia, Harvey, Luma Labs, and Manus.
Here's everything you need to know:
Plus, more news from Meta, Reka, Cartesia, Harvey, Luma Labs, and Manus.
Here's everything you need to know:
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OpenAI released new DIY tools for building custom AI agents, including:
A CUA model-powered Responses API with tools for web browsing, computer use, and file management
An open-source Agents SDK to orchestrate single and multi-agent systems
A CUA model-powered Responses API with tools for web browsing, computer use, and file management
An open-source Agents SDK to orchestrate single and multi-agent systems
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Meta is testing a new, in-house chip to cut costs on AI training
Manufactured by TSMC, the chip is part of the company's MTIA series and is likely to be deployed in 2026
It will help Meta cut reliance on Nvidia's pricey GPUs for training large models
Manufactured by TSMC, the chip is part of the company's MTIA series and is likely to be deployed in 2026
It will help Meta cut reliance on Nvidia's pricey GPUs for training large models
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Reka open-sourced Flash 3, a 21B parameter reasoning model
—Matches o1-mini on benchmarks
—32k context length
—Ideal for on-device deployment
—Finetuned on synthetic and public datasets
—Powers Nexus, Reka's platform for creating and managing AI agents
—Matches o1-mini on benchmarks
—32k context length
—Ideal for on-device deployment
—Finetuned on synthetic and public datasets
—Powers Nexus, Reka's platform for creating and managing AI agents
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Cartesia announced $64M in funding and a new Sonic 2.0 state space model
The model generates realistic AI voice across 16 languages and also includes an ultra-fast 'Turbo' mode
In blind tests, 1.5x as many people preferred Sonic over other providers
The model generates realistic AI voice across 16 languages and also includes an ultra-fast 'Turbo' mode
In blind tests, 1.5x as many people preferred Sonic over other providers
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Harvey released Workflows AI agents for legal tasks, with reasoning, planning, and adapting capabilities
In blind reviews, lawyer evaluators rated legal work produced by workflow agents as equal to or better than that of human lawyers
In blind reviews, lawyer evaluators rated legal work produced by workflow agents as equal to or better than that of human lawyers
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Luma Labs introduced a new pre-training technique called Inductive Moment Matching
It produces superior image generation quality 10x more efficiently than current approaches
Luma says the approach breaks the algorithmic ceiling of diffusion models!
It produces superior image generation quality 10x more efficiently than current approaches
Luma says the approach breaks the algorithmic ceiling of diffusion models!
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The team behind Manus partnered with Alibaba's Qwen to develop a Chinese version of its autonomous agent
The collaboration will integrate Manus with Qwen's open-source models and computing infra
This comes just after Manus went viral last week!
The collaboration will integrate Manus with Qwen's open-source models and computing infra
This comes just after Manus went viral last week!
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TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just dropped DIY tools to build custom autonomous AI agents
Plus, more news from Meta, Reka, Cartesia, Harvey, Luma Labs, and Manus.
Here's everything you need to know:
Plus, more news from Meta, Reka, Cartesia, Harvey, Luma Labs, and Manus.
Here's everything you need to know:
