Genie the AI software engineer surpasses Devin

Hello, AI Enthusiasts!

Welcome to FavTutor’s AI Recap! We’ve gathered all the latest and important AI developments from the past week in one place, just for you.

In Today’s Newsletter: 😀 

• Genie the AI software engineer surpasses Devin

• Meet Hermes 3, the powerful new open source AI model that has existential crises

• Apple’s iPad is getting a robotic arm

• Developing AI with Human Brain Cells

Cosine
💻️ Genie the AI software engineer surpasses Devin

Cosine just unveiled Genie, its fully autonomous AI software engineer that shattered the high score on a benchmark for coding abilities of large language models (LLMs) by over 10%.

Insights for you:

• Cosine trained Genie on a dataset that mirrors the way human software engineers work, from incremental knowledge discovery to step-by-step decision-making.

• Genie doesn’t just stop at making a mistake; it iterates, re-plans, and re-executes until the problem is solved—something foundational models struggle with.

• Genie scored 30.08% on SWE-Bench, a staggering 57% improvement over previous top performers like Amazon's Q and Code Factory at 19% (GPT-4 scored just 1.31%).

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Nous Research
🆕 Meet Hermes 3, the powerful new open source AI model that has existential crises

Nous Research just released Hermes 3, a new open-source model with significant improvements in roleplaying, agentic tasks, function calling, multi-turn chats, and long context coherence.

Insights for You:

• Hermes 3 is available in three sizes (8B, 70B, and 405B) with the 405B parameter model achieving state-of-the-art performance relative to other open models.

• The model is instruct tuned, or trained, to faithfully respond to user requests and closely follow provided system prompts, unlike base or foundation models.

• It achieves similar or better performance to Meta’s Llama-3.1 405B in judgement, reward modeling, interpretable problem-solving, code generation, and tool use.

Apple
🍎 Apple’s iPad is getting a robotic arm

Apple is reportedly ramping up development on a high-end tabletop smart home device with a robotic arm, an iPad-like display, and Siri voice command to operate its AI features.

Insights for you:

• The project, codenamed J595, reportedly involves a team of several hundred people and could launch as early as 2026 or 2027.

• The device combines an iPad-like display with a thin robotic arm that can tilt, spin 360 degrees, and move the screen around.

• Apple is targeting a price point of around $1,000 for the product.

Finalspark
🧠 Developing AI with Human Brain Cells

Swiss startup FinalSpark has introduced a new service that lets scientists access "biocomputers" made from human brain cells via the cloud, priced at $500 a month. This innovation aims to create AI that consumes 100,000 times less energy than existing systems.

Insights for you:

• The system uses organoids (clumps of human brain cells) that can "live" and compute for up to 100 days.

• AI models are trained using dopamine for positive reinforcement and electrical signals for negative reinforcement, mimicking natural neural processes.

• FinalSpark claims these biocomputers could be up to 100,000 times more efficient for AI training than traditional silicon-based technology.