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šŸ¤– Sakana AI Reveals an Autonomous AI Scientist

PLUS: OpenAIā€™s SWE Benchmark Update?!, Create Lifelike AI Narration Videos for Free

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In todayā€™s AI Report:

  • šŸ”¬Sakana AI Reveals an Autonomous AI Scientist

  • šŸ“ŠOpenAIā€™s SWE Benchmark Update?!

  • šŸæCreate Lifelike AI Narration Videos for Free

  • šŸ› 5 Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Venture Capital Updates

  • šŸ’¼Whoā€™s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

SAKANA AI

šŸ”¬Sakana AI Reveals an Autonomous AI Scientist

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Sakana AI introduced ā€œThe AI Scientist,ā€ 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.

  • ā€œThe AI Scientistā€ generates new research ideas, writes code, runs experiments, and conducts peer reviews.

  • ā€œThe AI Scientistā€ has already produced a research paper with novel contributions to DualScale Diffusion, a method for creating realistic artificial data.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • Sakana AI believes ā€œthis work signifies the beginning of a new era in scientific discovery: bringing the transformative benefits of AI agents to the entire research process.ā€

  • While chatbots like OpenAIā€™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).

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OPENAI

šŸ“ŠOpenAIā€™s SWE Benchmark Update?!

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OpenAI released ā€œSWE-bench Verified,ā€ a benchmark for evaluating how Large Language Models (LLMs) solve real-world software issues.

Key Details:
  • OpenAIā€™s Preparedness Framework is ā€œtasked with tracking, evaluating, forecasting, and helping protect against catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models.ā€

  • The ability of LLMs to autonomously complete software engineering tasks is a critical factor in OpenAIā€™s ā€œMedium Risk Levelā€ Preparedness Framework.

  • ā€œSWE-bench Verifiedā€ examines how AI models fix extra-tough coding bugs, which have been checked by real programmers.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • On ā€œSWE-bench Verified,ā€ OpenAIā€™s GPT-4o (ā€œoā€ for ā€œomniā€) 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.

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šŸ’°VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

  • Three reasons weā€™re in an AI bubble and four reasons weā€™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.

šŸ’¼WHOā€™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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