Hi everyone,

Microsoft is really going all-in on agents. They are updating Copilot Studio to run autonomous agents, which is amazing!

Let’s get right into it.

In this issue:

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• 🤿Deep Dive: New research artifacts and models released by Meta

• 🖼️AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art

• 🤿Deep Dive: Microsoft’s Copilot expansion and autonomous agents

• ⚒️Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity

• 📰Top News: News on AI, no-code, and productivity

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Meta FAIR's Open Release of Advanced AI Research and Models

Intelligence: Meta FAIR has publicly released several new research artifacts and models, aiming to advance machine intelligence and support open science.

New models:

• Meta has updated their Segment Anything Model (SAM 2.1), enhancing its performance and providing a new developer suite for code model training.

• Meta Spirit LM, a new open-source multimodal language model, has been introduced to integrate speech and text more seamlessly.

• Layer Skip has been developed to accelerate large language models' generation times without relying on specialized hardware or software.

• A new code, Salsa, has been shared to benchmark AI-based attacks and compare them with existing attacks in cryptographic security.

• Meta Lingua, a lightweight codebase, has been designed to train language models at scale, simplifying research and experimentation.

• The Meta Open Materials 2024 dataset and models have been released to facilitate the discovery of inorganic materials.

• The novel pre-trained cross-lingual sentence encoder, Mexma, has been introduced to improve sentence representations in multiple languages.

• The Self-Taught Evaluator, a new method for generating synthetic preference data, has been released to train reward models without human annotations.

🖼️ AI ART

Examples of great and trending AI art

🤿 DEEP DIVE

Microsoft's Copilot and the Advancement of Autonomous Agents

Intelligence: Microsoft announces the expansion of its AI platform, Copilot, including the introduction of autonomous agents and ten new features within Dynamics 365, aiming to reshape business processes.

• Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, will soon allow users to create autonomous agents, with a public preview coming next month.

• Autonomous agents are designed to execute and orchestrate business processes on behalf of an individual, team, or function.

• Ten new autonomous agents are being introduced in Dynamics 365 to enhance capacities for sales, service, finance, and supply chain teams.

• Companies like Clifford Chance, McKinsey & Company, Pets at Home, and Thomson Reuters are already using autonomous agents to increase revenue, reduce costs, and scale impact.

• Security, privacy, and responsible AI commitments are at the core of these new developments, with stringent security measures and controls in place.

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📰 TOP NEWS

News on AI, no-code, automation, and productivity

🌍 Worldcoin's Future Vision

The tech startup formerly known as Worldcoin seeks to redefine digital identity verification by sprucing up partnerships and advancing its biometric technology, while also unveiling its World Chain blockchain service and the feature-packed World App 3.0 to create a user-friendly ecosystem.

🎉 A New Chief Economist and Chief Compliance Officer on Board for OpenAI

Artificial intelligence lab, OpenAI, ropes in former Commerce Department's Chief Economist, Aaron Chatterji, and Uber's former compliance head, Scott Schools, to explore AI's economic impacts, form legal and ethical guidelines, and boost chip design efforts.

💻 Anthropic's AI is Now Handy with Computers

Anthropic's latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model, armed with the feature to operate a computer akin to humans, enters public beta for developer feedback and testing, despite its current limitations and cautious handling of social media.

🎈Daze Shakes Up Messaging for Gen Z

Daze, the freestyle messaging app targeted at Gen Z, has caught the attention of 156,000 potential users with its interactive and creative tools, powered by AI and designed for a simultaneous launch on iOS and Android, making communication more fun than just blue and green bubbles.

🎨 Midjourney's New Web Image Editing with a Touch of AI and a Dash of Controversy

Midjourney announces plans for an AI-powered web tool upgrade enabling users to intuitively edit images, but with rising concerns over deepfake proliferation and copyright issues, the roll-out will be restricted and heavily moderated.

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