What AI Coding Agents Can Do Right Now
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The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, OpenAI released a paper effectively seeking to test how competent their leading models are in real-world coding applications. Before that in the headlines, former OpenAI CTO Meera Muradi has officially announced her new company Thinking Machines. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. To join the conversation, follow the Discord link in our show notes. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief Headlines Edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. OpenAI has had a lot of talent departures over the last year and a half or so. In some cases, it's felt like a protest on how the direction of the company was going and indeed has explicitly been shared as such.
In others, it's about people making a boatload of money and just wanting to do something different for a while. And then still in others, it's about building something new outside of the constraints of that company. And among that set, one of the most closely watched people has been former CTO Mira Marotti. For months now, there have been rumors around what she's building, mostly fueled by departures and recruitment from OpenAI and Anthropic to join Marotti on some as yet unrevealed company. Now, however, that company has been officially announced. Yesterday, Mira tweeted, I started Thinking Machines Labs alongside a remarkable team of scientists, engineers, and builders. We're building three things, helping people adapt AI systems to work for their specific needs, developing strong foundations to build more capable AI systems, fostering a culture of open science that helps the whole field understand and improve these systems.
Our goal is simple, advance AI by making it broadly useful and understandable through solid foundations, open science, and practical applications. Alongside it, they published a website, thinkingmachines.ai. They write, Knowledge of how these systems are trained is concentrated within the top research labs, limiting both the public discourse on AI and people's abilities to use AI effectively. And despite their potential, these systems remain difficult for people to customize to their specific needs and values. To bridge the gaps for building thinking machine labs to make AI systems more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable. Now, if you're sitting there thinking, boy, I have absolutely no idea what these folks are actually building. You, my friend, are not alone.
Cosmic Chaos writes good luck, but I'm still not sure what exactly you are building. Is it one product that does all three or separately? Is it a service or a product? And what's your roadmap? William Wolfe writes, I'm rooting for Thinking Machines, but I wish projects like this had product to both engineering and design in their founding philosophies. Otherwise, it kind of just feels like yet another group of world-class researchers vaguely gesticulating at the future. Where is the vision? Swicks pointed out what he called two notable omissions from the Thinking Machines manifesto. The website does not use the word reasoning or agent at all. So what are these folks building? I have absolutely no idea.
It does feel a little bit like the type of text that may be in retrospect when we learn what they're building, like it'll make sense. Right now, I think vaguely gesticulating at the future is a pretty accurate way to describe it. At the end of the day, though, when it comes to things like potential for fundraising, the clarity of the description doesn't probably matter even a little bit. Currently, the 29 or so employees come from places like OpenAI, Meta, Character AI, and Google DeepMind. Verit Zoff, OpenAI's former VP of post-training research, is taking on the CTO role, with OpenAI co-founder John Shulman serving as chief scientist. And indeed, when it comes to people's interest in the company, it's best summed up by Andrej Karpathy, who writes, In other words, while this may be a situation where we don't have any idea what they're actually building, they're probably still worth paying attention to. Next up on the other end of the startup journey, less than a year after launch, the Humane pin is officially dead and gone.
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