Agents learn how to make other agents

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Welcome back, Superhuman. Barely survived April Fool’s Day? Join the club. Notion launched an “email service” riddled with easter eggs, ElevenLabs unveiled a text-to-bark model, and OpenAI gave us an emo voice bot. With all the shenanigans behind us, let’s dive into the real AI breakthroughs already emerging this week.

Today’s Insights

• Meta’s video experiment, OpenAI’s funding catch, and Alibaba’s next model

• Agents are learning how to build other agents on their own

• Tutorial: How to automate your software dev workflow using Augment Code

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. Meta’s new video experiment generates life-like characters: Plenty of AI models can produce videos and animations, and plenty can synthesize audio. But very few can do both. That’s where Meta’s new MoCha experiment comes in. It’s allegedly the first to generate “talking characters” — subjects that can move and talk realistically, complete with life-like facial expressions and hand movements.

2. OpenAI’s latest funding round has some strings attached: For one, the startup’s biggest backer, SoftBank, is going to need a record-breaking $16.5B loan just to fund its contribution. OpenAI also has to complete its for-profit transition by the end of the year, or else it’ll only get half of the $40B promised. At the same time, ChatGPT just saw a 30% revenue surge, fueled in part by GPT-4o’s viral native image generation feature, which is now available to everyone.

3. April is shaping up to be a busy month for frontier LLMs: Alibaba is the latest company rumored to have a new flagship model due out within the next few weeks. The Chinese tech giant’s Qwen 2.5, released only days ago, is efficient enough to run on your phone. But Qwen 3 could deliver a major performance boost, pushing it past rivals like DeepSeek’s R1 and OpenAI’s o3. Then again, R2 is allegedly right around the corner, setting up a dramatic showdown.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

New model lets agents build other agents

It’s agents all the way down. With $200M in its back pocket, an NYC-based startup called Emergence just unveiled what it says is the first agentic platform that can generate other agents with simple text prompts. That means instead of hunting for an AI tool that can complete a particular task for you, you can just build one that perfectly matches your workflow without any coding.

There’s a lot going on behind the scenes to make it work: 

• Emergence says the agents can “create goals, simulate tasks, evaluate themselves and others, learn from failure, and evolve into more capable versions.” And if they need some help, they can build even more agents to lend a hand.

• For example, if you ask for a report about historical Supreme Court decisions, the model will automatically send three separate agents off to do research while keeping one close at hand to write the final report.

Emergence’s team includes alums from IBM Research, Google Brain, Meta, and Amazon. But since the platform isn’t available to the general public, we can’t vouch for its accuracy quite yet. Regardless, it offers a hint at the future of work, where AI “swarms” will go off and complete complicated tasks for us while we act as their managers.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to automate your software dev workflow using Augment Code

Augment Code is designed for professional software engineers to streamline the coding process, making it easier to manage large codebases with ease.

• Go to Augment Code and click on the Install button.

• Download the Augment Code extension for your preferred IDE (VS Code, JetBrains, or Vim).

• Authenticate with your GitHub or Google account to allow Augment Code to access your repositories.

• Open your code project within your IDE and click on the Augment Code icon on the left panel to sync. Augment Code will index your codebase to understand its structure.

• You can now prompt Augment Code to find, modify, and decode specific code elements.

• It can debug, explain, generate documentation, track context, and generate code based on your prompts, enhancing your workflow.

• Plus, try automating larger workflow tasks like testing and bug tracking using the new Augment Agent feature - released today for VS Code!

Sample Prompt: Can you find [enter project/file name] UI elements in the CSS file?

Sign up and start coding now!

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🧠 Knowledge is Power: OpenAI recently expanded its AI Academy, which offers no-cost resources, tutorials, and live workshops, including “AI for older adults” and “getting started with AI for nonprofits.”

🗣️ Lip Service: SF-based startup Sync Labs is expanding access to its new lipsync-2 model, which it says is the first to “preserve a speaker’s unique style without additional training or fine-tuning.”

☀️ Speed of Light: Silicon Valley-based Lightmatter unveiled two new components that harness light instead of electricity to dramatically speed up connections between AI chips.

💰 Funding: AI ‘vibe coding’ startup Replit is seeking $200M in funding that would boost its valuation to $3B, showcasing investor enthusiasm for AI-powered development tools. Sesame, whose eerily realistic voice demo you might have already tried, is also pursuing $200M in funding to expand into personal companions and AI wearables. The deal could value the company at over $1B.

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Prompt: Help me stay ahead in [your industry] by identifying the most important trends, emerging technologies, and key thought leaders. Provide a curated list of must-read blogs, podcasts, newsletters, and influencers to follow. Suggest engaging ways to deepen my expertise, such as case studies, hands-on projects, or networking with experts. Also, include unconventional methods like reverse engineering industry success stories or analyzing market shifts through historical patterns. Bonus: Give me a ‘challenge of the week’ to apply my knowledge in a real-world scenario!

SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🧮 Missed the Mark: A new study suggests LLMs might not be as good at reasoning as we once thought, igniting a fierce debate on social media. Researchers looked at how well frontier LLMs could solve this year’s US Math Olympiad (which asks for proofs, not just final answers), with most scoring less than 5% correctly.

🖼️ Set the Scene: Game designer Majid Manzarpour shares how to generate dynamic backgrounds for vibe-coded video games with GPT-4o using a single prompt.

🍗 Crispy Code: Film director David Blagojevic created a speculative KFC commercial using AI tools like Sora, Kling AI, Veo 2, and even Suno for music generation.

📹 Frame Fantasies: Creators are getting their hands on Runway’s brand-new Gen-4, generating things like an explosion-filled, first-person action sequence and a dreamy clip of a street-crossing sign turning into a 3D figure and jumping onto the street.

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