AXIOS September 13, 2024
Ina Fried

Big announcements from OpenAI and Salesforce on Thursday highlight the tech industry’s desire to give bots more decision-making capabilities, despite concerns about the technology’s limitations.

Why it matters: Increasing generative AI’s autonomy and reasoning capabilities could improve efficiency, but also increase risk.

Driving the news: OpenAI on Thursday announced o1 (previously code-named Strawberry), a new model that pauses to evaluate different ways of responding before starting to answer a question.

  • The result, OpenAI says, is much better at handling complex queries, especially around math, science and coding.
  • Salesforce, meanwhile, debuted Agentforce, its effort to move from using genAI as a copilot to improve human productivity and into a world where autonomous AI agents are empowered to take action on...

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