Today’s top AI Highlights:

1. 1000+ AI Agents are building their own civilization in Minecraft

2. Build next-gen on-device AI apps with these opensource tools

3. Anthropic Quickstart repo to quickly start building with Claude API

4. Tesla releases Actually Smart Summon for your Tesla to drive to you

5. Students! Get a free month of Perplexity Pro

& so much more!

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Latest Developments

Watch 1,000 AI Agents Form a Society From Scratch 🌆

Move over SimCity; there's a new civilization built entirely by AI! Altera's Project Sid introduces the first-ever AI civilization, where over 1,000 autonomous agents are collaborating and building their own societies within a Minecraft server - but their capabilities extend far beyond just one game. These platform-agnostic AI agents are forming economies, governments, religions, and even spreading their own unique cultural practices fully autonomously. You can explore this fascinating AI world on Altera’s Playground.Altera

Key Highlights:

1. Long-Term Autonomy - Agents in Project Sid operate for hours or even days, continuously learning and adapting to their environment. They exhibit organizational skills by collaborating on tasks that would be impossible for a single agent to accomplish.

2. Emergent Social Dynamics and Pro-Human Motivation - Agents develop complex social structures, forming economies with their own currencies, democratic processes, and even unique religious beliefs. This gives a fascinating insight into how AI might integrate into human societies, aligning their motivations with human values.

3. Conscious Communication and Scalability - These agents can verbally express their thoughts and feelings, allowing researchers to gain insights into their decision-making processes. This conscious communication is crucial for building trust and understanding with AI as they become more autonomous.

4. Why it matters - Current AI systems largely rely on predefined workflows and limited autonomy. Project Sid signifies a significant leap forward by demonstrating truly autonomous agents capable of long-term planning, adaptation, and collaboration. These agents can become true partners of humans in making strategic decisions.

Build Next-Gen On-Device AI with Cartesia 📱

Cartesia is unlocking the potential of on-device AI with a new suite of AI tools to build and deploy AI models directly on devices. This reduces latency, enhances privacy, and opens doors to applications that can function offline. The company is introducing Edge, an opensource library for on-device State Space Models (SSMs), a new, more efficient AI architecture. They are also unveiling Rene, an opensource SSM language model, and Sonic On-Device, a real-time generative voice model for on-device applications.

Key Highlights:

1. State Space Models - SSMs are a new type of AI architecture that represents data as evolving states. This approach offers efficiency benefits over traditional models like Transformers, especially when processing long sequences of information, making them ideal for on-device AI.

2. Edge library - It provides optimized Metal kernels for Apple hardware, allowing developers to easily utilize SSMs on Apple devices. This includes support for quantization, which can further enhance performance on resource-constrained devices.

3. Rene model - This is a 1.3B parameter language model tailored for on-device inference. Benchmarks show it outperforms other open-source small language models in various tasks, including common sense reasoning and language understanding.

4. Sonic in private beta - Sonic On-Device brings ultrarealistic real-time voice generation capabilities directly to devices, offering features like instant voice cloning and control over pronunciation, speed, and emotion. You can fill out this form to collaborate with Cartesia and build with Rene and Sonic On-Device.

Quick Bites

1. Anthropic has released the Anthropic Quickstarts repo, a collection of projects to help you quickly start building deployable apps using the Anthropic API which can be further customized. The first app in it is a Claude-powered customer support agent. Quickstarts will be regularly updated with new projects to show different use cases and integrations.

2. Tesla has released Actually Smart Summon (ASS) feature that lets your car drive itself to you or a specific location using the Tesla app. You can also control the car’s basic movements through the app. It doesn’t currently allow the car to drop you off and then park itself.

3. OpenAI is planning to develop its first in-house chip using TSMC’s A16 process node to enhance Sora’s video-generation capabilities. This could potentially boost Apple’s device sales as the feature might be integrated into Apple’s AI suite.

4. OpenAI Japan’s CEO announced that GPT-4’s successor Orion will be named “GPT Next” and will have computational effectiveness 100 times greater than GPT-4. It will be released later this year.

5. Students! Get a free month of Perplexity Pro. If you have a .edu email, you can avail a free month of Perplexity Pro till September 15. You can sign up here.

Tools of the Trade

1. V1: An opensource starter kit for building production-ready SaaS apps. It includes a curated set of technologies like Next.js, Supabase, and various services for error monitoring, email delivery, background jobs, and more.

2. Melty: Opensource AI code editor that’s aware of what you’re doing from the terminal to GitHub, and collaborates with you to write production-ready code.

3. Hashnode: A blogging platform for developers offering custom domains, AI-assisted writing, and real-time collaboration. It supports Markdown and WYSIWYG editors and integrates easily with existing websites.

4. Awesome LLM Apps: Build awesome LLM apps using RAG to interact with data sources like GitHub, Gmail, PDFs, and YouTube videos through simple text. These apps will let you retrieve information, engage in chat, and extract insights directly from content on these platforms.

Hot Takes

1. do one LLM interpretability project and you'll gain a newfound respect for the stupendous size and complexity of cognitive machinery used to churn out intelligent behavior. nothing humbles a doubter like staring into the abyss of 175B parameters. ~
   James Campbell
   

2. Perplexity is the first generalized AI chatbot I’ve found useful enough to integrate into any part of my daily workflow ~
   Elizabeth
   

3. what’s so special about cursor? it’s just vscode rebranding ~
   anton

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