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Microsoft Agent Framework
🏷️ A new sales agents + 🧺 Household robots
Hi everyone,
The era of agents is definitely here. We’re partnering with another one for this issue: Salesforge. Microsoft releases a general framework for agents.
Let’s get right into it.
In this issue:
🤝In Partnership: Power-up sales success with Salesforge
🤿Deep Dive: Multi-agent AI system for task management by Microsoft
🖼️AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
🤿Deep Dive: Household robots developed by Physical Intelligence
📰Top News: News on AI, no-code, and productivity
🤝IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SALESFORGE
Replace 20+ Sales Tools With Agent Frank
Agent Frank was designed to fully take care of prospecting, emailing and booking meetings for your sales team, so you can focus on closing deals!
With Agent Frank you won’t need 20+ different tools anymore - just set up your new Agent in 4 easy steps and get started.
He learns using information provided directly by you and becomes better over time. You can use Agent Frank in two modes: fully autonomous Auto-pilot and Co-pilot, where you can review and monitor his work.
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Microsoft Unveils Magentic-One, a Multi-Agent AI System for Task Management
Intelligence: Microsoft researchers have developed Magentic-One, a new infrastructure that enables multiple AI agents to collaborate and complete complex, multi-step tasks.
Magentic-One is a generalist agentic system designed to increase productivity by automating common tasks.
This open-source framework is available for commercial use under a Microsoft License. An evaluation tool, AutoGenBench, has also been released.
The system uses an Orchestrator agent to manage four other agents: Websurfer, FileSurfer, Coder, and ComputerTerminal.
Tasks assigned to Magentic-One include describing financial trends, locating and exporting missing citations, and ordering food.
Though it was developed using OpenAI’s GPT-4o, Magentic-One supports multiple and language model-agnostic models.
🖼️ AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
“Ode to Poets” a Midjourney creation by Flimsy\_Ostrich4803
🤿 DEEP DIVE
Physical Intelligence's Household Chore Robots, Backed by Jeff Bezos and OpenAI
Intelligence: San Francisco startup Physical Intelligence has developed general-purpose robots capable of performing household tasks, attracting significant investment from figures such as Jeff Bezos and OpenAI.
Physical Intelligence aims to integrate AI into everyday physical tasks, developing robots that can adapt to various environments and tasks.
The startup has raised $400 million in funding from investors including Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, and venture capital firms Thrive Capital, Lux Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Bond.
The company's robots are trained on models that combine large language model (LLM) comprehension with specific task datasets collected from robots.
Its general-purpose robot foundation model, pi-zero, has successfully trained robots to unload laundry, bus tables, pack food into containers, and assemble cardboard boxes.
Challenges still exist, particularly in areas like autonomous self-improvement, robustness, and safety.
📰 TOP NEWS
News on AI, no-code, automation, and productivity
Predicted to be worth a cool $100b, Saudi Arabia’s rumored "Project Transcendence” aims to create a major tech hub, potentially outshining the UAE, with a focus on infrastructure, data centers, startups, and talent in the AI realm, plus a unique focus on Arabic language AI models.
NVIDIA is set to supercharge humanoid robot development by unveiling new AI and simulation tools under 'Project GR00T', this allows developers to accelerate robot learning and create robots capable of complex movements and interactions. Furthermore, new world-model development tools like the 'Cosmos tokenizer' and 'NeMo Curator' ease the generation and processing of rich video data for more robust AI models.
An intriguing AI-crafted painting of WWII codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing shattered its estimated sale price, scooping up a staggering $1,084,800 at auction, marking an illustrious moment in history for robot artists and showcasing the burgeoning intersection of AI technology and the global art market.
AI vendor Anthropic is joining with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to offer its advanced Claude AI models to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies, a move designed to enhance operational efficiency by tapping into the immense potential of AI for the rapid analysis of complex data sets.
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