It’s not always easy to separate hyped-up AI fiction from reality. We’ve created an AI Hype Index, a simple summary that gives you all the information you need about the current state of the industry.
AI models can certainly produce interesting and entertaining material, but their output is not always useful. Google DeepMind hopes that its new robotics models will make machines more receptive of verbal commands. This could allow us to give them orders by speaking. Manus is a general AI agent created by the Chinese startup Monica. It claims to be the first AI agent that can complete useful tasks. Burnt-out coders have begun letting AI take over the wheel in a new technique called “vibe coding.”
