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Coding and general-purpose AI are converging into one agent
Coding and general-purpose AI are converging into one agent
Sottiaux says merging Codex and ChatGPT reflects a future in which the same underlying multimodal agent handles both technical and nontechnical tasks while its interface adapts to each individual's needs.
- Interview
- How to Understand the Next Wave of AI Before Everyone Else | Thibault Sottiaux and Matthew Burman
- Speaker
- Thibault Sottiaux
- Topic
- Personal AI agents
- Source timestamp
- 14:45
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