MIT Technology Review January 20, 2025
A string of startups are racing to build models that can produce better and better software. They claim it’s the shortest path to AGI.
Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding.
“That’s something that’s been very exciting for developers,” Jared Kaplan, chief scientist at Anthropic, told MIT Technology Review this month: “It’s really understanding what’s wrong with code, debugging it.”
Copilot, a tool built on top of OpenAI’s large language models and launched by Microsoft-backed GitHub in 2022, is now used by millions of developers around the world. Millions more turn to general-purpose chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google DeepMind’s Gemini...
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