What a crazy week in AI 🤯 - OpenAI’s Codex - Google Coding Agent - Windsurf SWE-1 models - Notion’s new AI for work - Tencent Multimodal Video - ChatGPT 4.1 & PDF Exports - Meta Collaborative Reasoner - ElevenLabs Infinite Soundboard Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know:
1. OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT today. It can write features, answer questions about your codebase, fix bugs, and propose pull requests for review. Each task runs in its own cloud sandbox environment. Available to ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team.
2. Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent that evolves entire codebases and discovers algorithms. The AI has already optimized Google's data centers and improved chip designs, achieving up to 23% speedups.
3. Windsurf launches SWE-1, its first family of AI models designed for complete software engineering workflows. The three models were trained on incomplete states and multi-surface interactions, claiming competitive performance with Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
4. Notion unveiled “AI for Work” featuring AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search, and Research Mode. Business and Enterprise plans now include unlimited Notion AI with automatic transcription and cross-platform search.
5. Anthropic introduces its Research feature on mobile. It lets Claude search both internal work context and the web and conduct multiple interconnected searches for comprehensive research findings.
6. OpenAI released ChatGPT 4.1 in its chat. GPT 4.1 shows improved coding and instruction following than the previous model GPT-4o. You can now also export Deep Research reports as PDFs.
7. Tencent launches HunyuanCustom, an open-source 13B multimodal video generation. The platform supports text, image, audio, and video inputs to create customized videos with perfect subject consistency across single and multi-subject scenarios.
8. Meta introduced Collaborative Reasoner (CoRaL), teaching AI models to work together through multi-agent conversations. Using synthetic self-dialogue training, CoRaL-enhanced Llama models showed up to 29.4% improvement on collaborative reasoning tasks.
9. ElevenLabs introduces SB-1 Infinite Soundboard. It is a soundboard, drum machine, and endless ambient noise generator all in one. You just describe the sound effects you want to hear, and the SB-1 will generate them using their Text-to-SFX model.
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