AI Reading for Wednesday March 12
OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API - Ars Technica
OpenAI releases API platform for agents - WSJ
Official OpenAI announcement - OpenAI
Will AI cause deflation? - Business Insider
Sam Altman's AI Short Story Sucks, and He Doesn't Know Why - Gizmodo
Top non-reasoning open-source model at any size, beating much larger 70b and 405b models. DeepSeek R1 beats it but is even larger. It will be interesting to compare distilled versions running on same hardware, and to see what reasoning models people build on top of Gemma.
A lot of leading frontier models lose to Gemma around 45% of the time. Single accelerator means it currently needs something like a 96GB B200 at full precision. But once they quantize it and distill it etc, should run without much degradation in 32GB. Absolute scenes.
Sonnet 3.7 in Cursor is the toolchain of choice for devs - VentureBeat
It’s called Cursor because it writes cursed code.
Simon Willison: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code - Simon Willison’s Weblog
DOGE’s Plans to Replace Humans With AI Are Already Under Way - The Atlantic
The 4 robots you meet in purgatory - Fast Company
Quadratic is the AI spreadsheet with Python - Geeky Gadgets
Chinese Companies Rush to Put DeepSeek in Everything - WIRED
How will artificial intelligence affect wealth equality? - Phys.org
The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1 - SemiAnalysis
Google’s Investment in Anthropic - NY Times
How the Trump administration plans to use AI to target protesters - Fast Company
Building your own custom GPT - Harvard Business Review
AI-Generated Voice Evidence Poses Dangers in Court - Default
although removing copyright notice is not a direct fair use test, like whether the market for the original is impacted, it suggests consciousness of guilt.
China's Manus AI partners with Alibaba's Qwen team for enterprise agents - Reuterscomputer use, etc. - VentureBeat
Putting AI Arnold into a fish - Reddit
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