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Week 30 | March 11-17
Move over 007, we have a sexier type of agent in town and his name is Devin. His martinis aren't shaken or stirredโthey're coded.
Here's your AI weekly recap for the week:
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Week 30 | March 11-17
Agent Devin
Industry:
๐จ Cognition releases Devin, a fully autonomous AI software engineer agent. Devin can perform tasks such as end-to-end app development, autonomously finding and fixing bugs in codebases, train and fine tune its own AI models, and and contribute to repos. Devin scored 14% on SWE-bench, a challenging benchmark that asks agents to resolve real-world GitHub issues. This is significantly higher score than other LLMs such as Anthropic Claude 2, GPT-4 and Llama. The company also announced a $21M Series A raise led by Founder's Fund. (https://lnkd.in/ghScVwZZ).
๐จ Google releases SIMA, a generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments. SIMA is an AI agent that can perceive and understand a variety of environments, then take actions to achieve an instructed goal using natural language. (https://lnkd.in/gB_pz4JT)
๐จย The EU parliament approved the EU AI Act. The regulation is expected to enter into force at the end of the legislature in May (https://lnkd.in/ggA-YQHz)
Financing and M&A:
๐จTogether AI raises $106M in additional funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from existing investors. The platform has over 45,000 registered developers with traffic growing 3x month over month. (https://lnkd.in/geTKmz5t)
๐จAutonomous driving software provider Applied Intuition raises $250M in Series E funding led by Lux Capital, Elad Gil and Porsche Investements with participation fro existing investors. Applied Intuition is working with 18 of the top 20 automotive OEMs and has achieved profitable, triple-digit percentage growth year to year.
๐จ unstructured.io raises $40M Series B led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Databricks Ventures, IBM Ventures, and Others. Unstructured offers a platform for ingestion and preprocessing of data from LLM use cases. (https://lnkd.in/gFzDrZPx)
Research and Innovation:
๐จCovariant announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1), a LLM for robot language. The model is a 8B parameter transformer based model trained on text, images, videos, robot actions, and a range of numerical sensor readings (https://lnkd.in/gYb7cyCe)
๐จ Technical paper for Yi models by 01.AI. Yi hasn't been very popular in the west but their models have all scored quite well on evals. My favoriate line from the paper: "the Chinese content extracted from Common Crawl present unique challenges, particularly with a higher ratio of inappropriate content like pornography and gambling." (https://lnkd.in/gQn7GQ7E)