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What's the difference? An AI agent is a loop-driven system that can decide which tool to call next, keep state across interactions, and adapt its behaviour. An automation is a fixed sequence of steps that runs the same way every time.
Building in public You know the risk before you start. Everyone tells you: do not build something the platform could ship. You build it anyway, because you need it and nobody has it.
The offering could value the five-year-old A. I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Users who rely on ChatGPT for quick visual searches can now add photos to a conversation more quickly with a new gesture. Here’s how.
I think agent-first chat interfaces will be a primary software modality and busy dashboard/UI will go away. I’m not sure who exactly wins it, but I want my knowledge to grow/go with me. A lot of the “knowledge” ie research, analysis, reasoning will be done by agents as the primary user.