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Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent


The mission? Teaching models to better understand how to build code will lead to superintelligent AI.

Asimov reads code as well as emails, Slack messages, project updates and other documentation with the goal of learning how all this leads together to produce a finished piece of software. An OpenAI tool called Deep Research, for instance, uses feedback from expert humans as a reinforcement learning signal that teaches an agent to comb through websites, hunting for information on a topic, before generating a detailed report. With the AI industry now shooting for superintelligence, and deep pocketed companies like Meta pouring huge sums into hiring and building infrastructure, startups like Reflection may find it more challenging to compete.

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