Cognition just released Devin 1.2, giving its AI software engineer better in-context reasoning to understand repository structures and reuse existing code. Users can now assign tasks simply by sending voice notes directly in Slack. The platform still starts at $500 a month, now with usage-based overage options.
LinkedIn just rolled out two free AI tools for job hunters and small businesses, including a Jobs Match feature to evaluate if postings are worth applying to and a synthetic hiring agent to triage candidates. Notably, both rely on LinkedIn's in-house AI rather than OpenAI models.
Microsoft just launched Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, bringing metered AI agents into its free GPT-4o chat experience for commercial users. Employees can now run web searches, analyze files, and trigger custom agents without a full subscription. Why it matters: It gives companies an easy, low-friction on-ramp to deploy workplace agents at scale.
MiniMax just open-sourced its new MiniMax-01 series, featuring a 456B-parameter language model and a visual multimodal model. Built on a novel Lightning Attention architecture with linear complexity, the models handle up to 4 million tokens of context with virtually zero loss. Weights are available on GitHub alongside access via MiniMax Chat.
OpenAI just rolled out a beta tasks feature to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers. Users can now ask ChatGPT to fire off push reminders or handle recurring requests like daily news roundups. While it can't run background searches or buy tickets yet, it's OpenAI's first real step toward independent AI agents.
Samsung just dropped a teaser video hinting at major AI upgrades for the upcoming Galaxy S25. In the demo, the AI handles a multi-step spoken request—finding a specific restaurant, messaging a contact, and updating the calendar all at once. The "true AI companion" will officially debut at Galaxy Unpacked on January 22.
Sakana AI just unveiled Transformer², an adaptive system that adjusts LLM weights at test time to tackle different tasks like a living brain. Using Singular Value Finetuning and RL, it beats LoRA across math and coding benchmarks while requiring far fewer parameters.
Mercedes-Benz just partnered with Google Cloud to power its next-gen MBUX Virtual Assistant using Gemini. The smart navigation agent can handle complex multi-turn chats and remember conversation context throughout a trip, debut set for the new CLA running MB.OS later this year.
Delta CEO Ed Bastian just unveiled Delta Concierge, an AI assistant launching this year to rebook delayed flights and guide passengers to their gates. Instead of generic chatbots, the airline is targeting real operational pain points, using AI behind the scenes to optimize gate assignments and flight connections.
Nvidia just released a new AI Blueprint for video search and summarization, designed to let visual agents ingest surveillance and industrial footage at 30x real-time speed. Powered by Cosmos Nemotron models, the agents pack reasoning and tool-calling skills to flag factory defects or analyze athletic form. Why it matters: it unlocks actionable data from billions of unwatched cameras.
NVIDIA just introduced the Llama Nemotron and Cosmos Nemotron model families, custom-built to power autonomous AI agents across enterprises. Available in Nano, Super, and Ultra sizes, the open models use distillation and pruning to run everywhere from edge PCs to multi-GPU clusters. Why it matters: It gives developers purpose-built open building blocks to deploy multi-agent workflows without bleeding compute budgets.
Nvidia just teamed up with orchestration leaders like LangChain and CrewAI to release new enterprise-ready Agentic AI Blueprints. The catalog includes pre-built templates for turning PDFs into conversational podcasts, automating code docs, and orchestrating multi-agent systems, letting developers spin up reasoning workflows in a single click via NVIDIA Launchables.
Google DeepMind is building a new team dedicated to AI that simulates the physical world, led by former OpenAI Sora co-lead Tim Brooks. The group plans to build on Gemini, Veo, and Genie to advance visual reasoning, robotics planning, and real-time generation, viewing world models as essential on the path to AGI.
Halliday just debuted a pair of retro-style smart glasses at CES 2025 that skip traditional waveguide lenses entirely. Using a tiny optical module called DigiWindow, the device projects a discreet 3.5-inch virtual screen directly into your field of vision without a camera, paired with a proactive AI agent that assists during conversations.
OpenAI just shared personal reflections on the two years since launching ChatGPT, detailing the company's turbulent scaling and internal drama. The leadership noted they now know how to build AGI, predicting the first AI agents will "join the workforce" in 2025 before setting sights on superintelligence.
Hugging Face just published a breakdown of AI agent autonomy levels and their ethical risks. The team warns that ceding control sharply increases safety hazards, specifically recommending developers avoid building fully autonomous agents that can write and execute their own code.
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever just made a rare public appearance at NeurIPS, declaring that AI has officially achieved "peak data." Comparing human web data to finite fossil fuels, he warned traditional pre-training is nearing its end. Future breakthroughs, he argued, will rely on truly reasoning and agentic models rather than mass scraping.
Google just introduced Google Agentspace, a new platform designed to help enterprise employees find internal data and automate multi-step workflows with AI agents. Powered by Gemini and Google-quality search, it connects to tools like Jira and SharePoint while bringing NotebookLM Plus to businesses. An early access program is now open.
TIME just launched TIME AI, an interactive tool built with ElevenLabs and Scale AI that turns static articles into a two-way voice conversation. Readers can ask follow-up questions directly to an audio agent equipped with article context and archives, essentially giving legacy journalism a personalized interactive guide.
Google just rolled out Deep Research for Gemini Advanced users, turning the assistant into an autonomous research partner. It creates a multi-step search plan, browses the web across several passes, and compiles findings into a clean report with source links. Plus, a speedy experimental preview of Gemini 2.0 Flash is now open to all Gemini users on the web.
