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Meta Platforms’ plans to improve the artificial intelligence features in its apps could lead the company to partner with Google or OpenAI, two of its biggest AI rivals.
Leaders in Meta’s new AI organization, Meta Superintelligence Labs, have discussed using Google’s Gemini model to provide conversational, text-based answers to questions that users enter into Meta AI, the social media giant’s main chatbot, a person familiar with the conversations said. Those leaders have also discussed using models by OpenA
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Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track who’s making changes to a codebase, and sandboxes where code can be safely run and tested without affecting the main system.Now, a startup is building such tools for artificial intelligence agents that aim to do the work of human coders. Andreessen Horowitz, which has been among the most prolific backers of young AI startups in the... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working. New data show OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude Code’s.Developers approved 74.3% of code written by Codex, slightly higher than Claude Code’s 73.7% success rate in terms of approving code pull requests, according to data... Read more ›
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It’s been nearly a year since we scooped the news that OpenAI, Google, Snowflake and Cohere were all working on artificial intelligence search products similar to the one startup Glean made a big splash with. Glean’s AI-powered search lets workers at companies easily find emails, Slack messages and other data scattered across business applications. As we said at the time, it seemed like everyone was trying to be like Glean.... Read more ›
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Over the summer, two software engineers at Mixus, a San Francisco–based artificial intelligence startup, staged a bit of a rebellion by refusing to follow instructions to rely heavily on Cursor or any of the other popular new coding-assistance software. They figured “they could do better than Cursor,” said an incredulous Shai Magzimof, Mixus’ co-founder. With just five full-time employees, the duo’s revolt was a substantial headache for Magzimof. One of... Read more ›
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