GLOSSARY: Jarvis, you up?

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Inspired by the Marvel movie Iron Man, OpenAI is building something similar. The company is expected to launch its autonomous agent ‘JARVIS’ at DevDay next month. This new autonomous agent, as people are describing, would change the way one interacts with the internet or web – be it sending emails, negotiating, making products, purchases, fulfilling orders, or even booking flight tickets.

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Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI, recently shared the capabilities of the GPT-4 Voice, where the assistant was able to do business negotiations without much supervision. Ironically, it also identifies itself as JARVIS. As per a user on X, who posted the screen recording, the chatbot called itself Jarvis and was ready to assist him with everything.

Andrej Karpathy, the genius who now works at OpenAI, also believes that he is “building a kind of JARVIS at OpenAI”. Undoubtedly, the guy who built Baby Llama and can easily code GPT-5 over the weekend, is probably ready for the task of building autonomous agents, if not AGI, and OpenAI has possibly cracked it.

Previously, in an interview, Sam Altman had defined AGI as something that could serve as the “equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker”. Many experts also believe that autonomous agents are the next step for LLM-based chatbots. Almost all companies and researchers are now moving towards building autonomous AI, and away from passive AI agents.

Microsoft recently came up with AutoGEN, a framework that enables building LLM applications using multiple agents that would be able to talk to each other. Similarly, Google DeepMind recently published a paper ‘How FaR Are Large Language Models From Agents with Theory-of-Mind?’ Even Meta’s Shepherd: A Critic for Language Model Generation talks about the same autonomous AI agents augmenting and doing tasks all by themselves.

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OpenAI Kills Arrakis

OpenAI has allegedly killed one of its dear projects, codenamed, Arrakis. Unlike GPT-4, which is huge in size and more powerful than its predecessor GPT-3.5, Arrakis was expected to be smaller and allow the chatbots to run more efficiently and less expensively. Interestingly, this project was started long before Meta’s Llama was ever in the picture.

But now, OpenAI seems to have pulled the plug on Arrakis. Here’s why.

GitHub Copilot Rival

Zoho is building a GitHub Copilot alternative. Sridhar Vembu, co-founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation, recently announced that the company plans to work on ‘Programmer Productivity’ – a platform that will focus on code generation.

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“In business, you cannot make facts up,” said Vembu, while explaining Zoho’s new coding product that is in development. He believes that models that generate incorrect answers limit business usage. “If you generate code out of it, that limits the usage of the code too.” With the new coding product, Zoho looks to eliminate inaccuracy.

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Space Tech Zone

Meet the Google Maps for Space: Digantara, the Peak XV Partners-backed space tech startup from Bengaluru, is working towards building space situational awareness. In an exclusive interview with AIM, the team shared their ambitious plans of making space travel hassle-free and smooth. Read more here.

Making India A Global Launchpad: Chennai-based Agnikul is on a mission to lower launch costs for small satellites and expand globally through its flexible launchpad. In an interview with AIM, Satyanarayan Chakravarthy shared their vision and plans to make India a hub for launching international satellites. Read the full interview here.