OpenAI just launched Operator: a new agent designed to get work done for you. We’ve been using it for the past couple of days @every and here’s what we found: – it can autonomously do tasks like shopping for groceries or concert tickets
– it has access to its own browser—that
BIG TECH
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OpenAI Launches Operator: Autonomous AI Agent for Task Automation
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OpenAI Launches First Agent Live Stream Demo
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doing an openai livestream right now, first agent launch!
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Jira bottom-up adoption signals enterprise software market shift
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All true, but Jira started bottom-up as well, and eventually grew into this way of operating. I suspect this survey is a leading indicator of where things are moving, as these companies get traction with enterprises.
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ChatGPT Free Tier Gets o3-mini Model Access
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big news: the free tier of chatgpt is going to get o3-mini! (and the plus tier will get tons of o3-mini usage)
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Microsoft’s Stargate Project and Responsible AI Infrastructure Investment
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Et le pire dans ce projet « stargate » ? 😲
— Defend Intelligence (Anis Ayari) (@DFintelligence) 23 janvier 2025
Satya Nadella, le CEO de Microsoft, a déclaré qu’il avait les moyens financiers 💰, mais qu’il veillerait à ce que cet argent soit utilisé de manière responsable ✅, pour des projets sérieux, et non pour simplement surfer sur la hype… pic.twitter.com/oI0f7XEDSAEt le pire dans ce projet « stargate » ? Satya Nadella, le CEO de Microsoft, a déclaré qu’il avait les moyens financiers , mais qu’il veillerait à ce que cet argent soit utilisé de manière responsable , pour des projets sérieux, et non pour simplement surfer sur la hype
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AI Development: People, Power, and Politics in Real Life
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As predicted from the early days, this is all about people, power, and politics. Would make an amazing tv show, but it’s happening IRL.
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Infrastructure Scaling for AI Performance and Economic Outcomes
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Better at performance, insight and outcome – and more economical depends on whether they can build the infrastructure to scale it – IE, what they are starting to do now.
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DeepSeek R1 Inspires American Labs to Compete on Open Source
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What DeepSeek has done with r1 is amazing. Will hopefully inspire an American lab to compete for the best open source models.
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Gemini Thinking Release Shows Rapid Progress
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Great & super fast progress from our first Thinking release in December, kudos to @jack_w_rae @NoamShazeer and the whole Gemini team!
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American Innovation Dominance in Fundamental Technology Breakthroughs
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the fundamental innovations are still american