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In today’s AI Report:
🔬Sakana AI Reveals an Autonomous AI Scientist
📊OpenAI’s SWE Benchmark Update?!
🍿Create Lifelike AI Narration Videos for Free
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
SAKANA AI
🔬Sakana AI Reveals an Autonomous AI Scientist
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Sakana AI introduced “The AI Scientist,” an autonomous AI scientist that uses research and evidence to understand the physical world.
Key Details:
Sakana AI aims to create innovative foundational AI models based on nature-inspired intelligence.
“The AI Scientist” generates new research ideas, writes code, runs experiments, and conducts peer reviews.
“The AI Scientist” has already produced a research paper with novel contributions to DualScale Diffusion, a method for creating realistic artificial data.
Why It’s Important:
Sakana AI believes “this work signifies the beginning of a new era in scientific discovery: bringing the transformative benefits of AI agents to the entire research process.”
While chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT can perform functions like analyzing open-ended user queries, their context is limited to the prompting environment.
AI agents can operate autonomously across websites, apps, and data types (e.g., text, image, video, audio, and code).
🩺 PULSE CHECK
What’s the most significant potential benefit of “The AI Scientist”?
OPENAI
📊OpenAI’s SWE Benchmark Update?!
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OpenAI released “SWE-bench Verified,” a benchmark for evaluating how Large Language Models (LLMs) solve real-world software issues.
Key Details:
OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework is “tasked with tracking, evaluating, forecasting, and helping protect against catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.”
The ability of LLMs to autonomously complete software engineering tasks is a critical factor in OpenAI’s “Medium Risk Level” Preparedness Framework.
“SWE-bench Verified” examines how AI models fix extra-tough coding bugs, which have been checked by real programmers.
Why It’s Important:
On “SWE-bench Verified,” OpenAI’s GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) resolved 33.2% of the extra-tough coding bugs.
OpenAI worked with 93 software developers to annotate 1,699 random extra-tough coding bugs to determine how long it would take for a human developer to implement the solution.
AI TIPS
🍿Create Lifelike AI Narration Videos for Free
RenderNet’s new Narrator feature allows you to produce realistic videos of AI characters narrating scripts.
Here’s How You Can Access It:
Visit RenderNet’s website here.
Click “Create for Free” and create a free account with your Google Chrome Profile or Email Address.
Upload a “Source Video” (e.g., MP4).
Upload a “Face Image” for a custom narrator appearance.
Select an “AI Voice,” write your script, and hit “Generate.”
🛠TRENDING TOOLS
🥧AppyPie is a no-code workflow automation platform.
🛒ViableView identifies your next best-selling digital product.
📬Missive is a collaborative email inbox for productive teams.
🧪VillageLabs does the boring parts of your job while you sleep.
🦾TelyAI is an autonomous AI agent that runs expert B2B blogs to generate leads.
🔮Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.
💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble and four reasons we’re not.
UpTimeAI secures a $14M Series A to revolutionize manufacturing with AI.
Cosine raises a $2.5M Seed Round to scale AI-assisted software development.
💼WHO’S HIRING?
PayPal (San Jose, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025
Roblox (San Mateo, CA): Software Engineer Intern, Summer 2025
Qualcomm (San Diego, CA): Embedded Engineering Intern, Summer 2025
Microsoft (Redmond, WA): Software Engineer Intern, Fullstack, Summer 2025
NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Research Engineer, Generalist Embodied Agent Research, New College Grad 2024
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