A week in Generative AI: Figure AI, Devin & SIMA
A week in Generative AI: Figure AI, Devin & SIMA
News for the week ending 17th March 2024
Two big, impressive bits of news this week - Figure AI demoed their OpenAI integration and Devin launched. Both videos well worth a watch if you have a spare 5 minutes!
Figure AI demos OpenAI integration
Anyone who's not convinced that GenAI powered humanoid robots are in our near term future really needs to watch this video - it's astounding, and the amount of progress being made in weeks/months is crazy right now.
Figure AI recently raised $675m from OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and Jeff Bezos amongst others, valuing it at $2.6bn.
I'm sure that this type of technology will be deployed in factories and warehouses by the end of this year, with a quick ramp in volume next year. Domestic applications will come as economies of scale kick in, manufacturing costs decrease (driven by robotics!) and price of ownership decreases to less than $20k. This will happen this decade.
We've in for a crazy few years!
Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer
This is some seriously impressive AI - the first real world application of the AI agent concept, applied to software engineering. Devin is a coworker not just a copilot. It can take a request, do some reasoning, make a plan and then execute against that plan, accommodating any issues that arise along the way. Some things Devin can do:
Learn how to use unfamiliar technologies
Build and deploy apps end-to-end
Autonomously find and fix bugs in codebases
Train and fine-tune its own AI models
Complete jobs on Uptask and earn money 🤯
SIMA - A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
Some interesting research here. The general gist of it is that DeepMind are training a model to be able to play a variety of 3D games as a simulation for the model to then learn how to navigate the real world. Very cool!
Amazon selling partners can now access even more generative AI features to create high-quality product listings
A nice little feature from Amazon here, quickly allowing sellers to generate a product listing just from a URL of the product page. Very similar in concept to where Google is going with Search Ads.
AI Ethics News
As AI tools get smarter, they’re growing more covertly racist, experts find
World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.“
William Gibson