Operator agent explosion

Hi everyone,

It’s truly the year of the operator… Convergence now has one, and so does Qwen.

Again, what the difference? Operators interact with apps the same way as you and I, by looking at screen, moving a mouse, and clicking.

This means operators can do things that don’t have APIs, like booking an Uber for you.

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In this issue:

• 🤝 In Partnership: Stop wrestling with spreadsheets, transform your Excel skills.

• 🤿Deep Dive: Convergence AI introduced an operator

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

• 🤿Deep Dive: New vision language model from Qwen

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

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

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Convergence AI Launches Proxy, a Revolutionary AI Assistant to Compete with OpenAI

Intelligence: Proxy has officially launched as a new AI assistant aimed at improving productivity and efficiency by simplifying repetitive tasks for users, positioning itself as a strong competitor to OpenAI's recent offering, Operator.

• Proxy is designed to act like a human, navigating online tasks efficiently for personal and professional use, from mundane life-admin to complex data analysis.

• Users can set up tasks with simple commands and enjoy automated repetitions, enhancing efficiency over time.

• Offers a globally accessible free tier for new users and monthly plans starting at just $20, significantly lower than competitors.

• Built-in layers of security ensure safe transactions and data sharing, requiring user permission for sensitive actions.

• Claims a top-tier WebVogager score, indicating superior performance metrics compared to rivals, and stresses unique learning capabilities that set it apart.

🖼️ AI ART

Examples of great and trending AI art

Imagine waking up to the sound of waves and stepping out onto a private beach with this series of stunning beachside mansions, created by Standard-File-8187 using MidJourney.

🤿 DEEP DIVE

 Alibaba-Backed Qwen Launches New Vision Language Models with License Caveats

Intelligence: Chinese AI startup Qwen has unveiled Qwen2.5-VL, a new vision-language model offering substantial improvements in image analysis capabilities but comes with specific licensing restrictions for commercial use.

• Qwen has launched its flagship vision-language model, Qwen2.5-VL, which features three versions based on parameters: 72 billion, 7 billion, and 3 billion.

• The Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct model competes with leading models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic across various benchmarks, offering advanced capabilities in document understanding, math, general question answering, and video event recognition.

• Designed to process both text and visual data, Qwen2.5-VL can analyze videos up to one hour long, localize images with bounding boxes, and provide structured output data.

• A standout feature is the model’s "agentic" nature, allowing it to perform actions on behalf of users—such as making flight bookings and modifying images—rather than just providing answers.

• Qwen’s models are released with a variety of licenses:

  1. The 72-billion-parameter model has a Qwen License allowing free use with restrictions on commercial applications for services exceeding 100 million monthly active users.

  2. The 3-billion-parameter model is under a Qwen Research License, prohibiting all commercial use.

  3. The 7-billion-parameter model falls under the Apache License 2.0, which permits broader use.

⚒️ TOOL SNAPSHOTS

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• 📊 Wepost - Streamlining your social media content handling and growth. Free to try.

• 🤖 Nowadays - AI-driven assistant for hassle-free corporate event planning. Payment required.

• 📚 BookRead - Enhance your reading with AI, self-tests, and analytics. Free option available.

• 🔍 Sense - AI-powered search and organization for your team projects. Free option available.

• 📈 JustLog.Today - Share, track & gamify your project progress professionally. Free option available.

📰 TOP NEWS

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

🔥 Alibaba's Qwen 2.5-Max Takes on DeepSeek's AI

Alibaba releases its upgraded Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, claiming it outperforms DeepSeek's latest models and other top AI systems, intensifying competition in China's fast-growing AI market.

🌟 DeepSeek Unveils Janus-Pro Models to Compete with DALL-E 3

DeepSeek launches its new Janus-Pro multimodal AI models, which are available for commercial use and outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 in key benchmarks, offering impressive image generation and analysis capabilities.

🤖 Lucie AI Chatbot Pulled Offline After Errors

Lucie, a French-language AI chatbot backed by the French government, was taken offline after providing incorrect answers, including recommending cow's eggs and failing simple math problems. The team plans to update the model before relaunching it privately.

📱 DeepSeek Android App Tops Google Play Store

DeepSeek’s AI chatbot app, which recently surged to the top of the Apple App Store, has now reached No. 1 on Google Play with over 1.2 million downloads in just days. The app offers file analysis, question answering, and web information retrieval, all for free.

🏃‍♂️ Robots Race Humans in Historic Half-Marathon

In Beijing this April, 12,000 humans will compete against bipedal robots, including the star contender Tiangong, in the world’s first athletic race between humans and humanoid robots. The event highlights the impressive advancements in robotics and sets the stage for future robot-human collaborations.

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