OpenAI's new coding agent

Welcome back, Superhuman. The AI coding wars are heating up. OpenAI just stepped into the ring alongside Google and Anthropic with the launch of its new coding agent. Also: a new study claims that AI agents can develop social norms between themselves, even when they have not been explicitly programmed to do so.

Today’s Insights

• OpenAI’s coding tool, study finds agent social norms, and OpenAI’s AI campus

• Tutorial: How to design your room with Manus AI

• Notion launches 'Research Mode' & MIT retracts celebrated research paper

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. OpenAI unveils new coding agent in ChatGPT: The company just launched Codex, an AI coding agent that writes simple features, fixes bugs, answers questions about your codebase, and runs tests. The tool is built on a variant of OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model and can take anywhere from a minute to half an hour to complete tasks. Early users are reporting that the ability to run multiple coding tasks simultaneously is a game-changer, with the potential to make software engineering "radically different in a year or so". Watch a quick preview of the tool here.

2. New study claims spontaneous emergence of social norms among AI agents: Researchers from the University of London found that AI agents can develop shared social norms and behaviors between themselves without any explicit programming. The study also claims that “strong collective biases can emerge during this process, even when agents exhibit no bias individually.” The findings have significant implications for AI safety and for understanding how autonomous AI agents might develop social behaviors.

3. OpenAI joins plan to build data center bigger than the city of Monaco: The company has inked a deal with UAE’s G42 to build a 5-gigawatt AI campus in Abu Dhabi spanning 10 square miles as part of its global 'Stargate' initiative. The center could potentially eclipse the capacity of OpenAI's massive 1.2-gigawatt campus currently under construction in Texas. The move hasn't been without controversy though, as G42's previous Chinese connections have sparked national security concerns among officials.

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How to design your room with Manus AI

• Go to Manus AI website and log in with your account.

• Take a well-lit photo of your room from a central angle, ensuring all key elements are visible.

• Upload the photo and enter your prompt.

• Explain how you want your room to be designed. Be as detailed as possible.

Sample Prompt: “[upload photo] This is a photo of my living room. I want to redesign it using a Scandinavian minimalistic style with a neutral color palette (whites, beiges, and light grays). Please suggest furniture and decor items that fit this theme. Provide links to purchase each item from IKEA. Ensure the layout maximizes space and natural light."

• Manus AI will process your input and generate a redesigned layout of your room, with your specifications.

• You'll get a curated list of items, each with direct links to online retailers and suggestions on where and how to place each item in your room.

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Feedback Prompt: "I prefer a darker wood finish for the coffee table."

• Once satisfied, download the final layout and list of items.

AI AND TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🎨 Creator Carnival: Google AI Studio has rolled out its suite of creative AI models – Veo 2 for video generation, Gemini 2.0 for image creation and editing, and Imagen 3 for photorealistic visuals – for free through its platform and API.

💻️ Snap Site: Alibaba’s Qwen team have dropped Web Dev, a new feature that allows users to build a professional website in a couple of minutes with just a single prompt. The tool is available on Qwen Chat, the company’s ChatGPT-like platform.

🔍️ Research Revolution: Workspace productivity tool Notion just launched an AI-powered 'Research Mode' that can process and analyze internal documents and web sources, generating comprehensive reports without any manual research.

📃 Tough Takeback: MIT is retracting a widely celebrated paper that claimed AI-assisted scientists make more discoveries than their unassisted peers. The university has concluded that it has "no confidence in the provenance, reliability, or validity" of the research.

🔄 Strategy Pivot: As companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google invest in their own competing AI chips, Nvidia is reportedly feeling the heat. The chipmaker is now striking multibillion-dollar deals in the Middle East and ramping up investments in “neoclouds” to further diversify its sales channels.

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

⏳️ Verdict Pending: The jury is still out on OpenAI’s Codex. Developer Jason Botterill called its $200 monthly price tag a steal after it whipped up a clone of a basic mobile game in seconds. An OpenAI employee claims he uses Codex to write 80% of his code. But some other users think the tool is just more of the same.

💰️ Frugal Flair: X user Pablo Rothbart claims he's outdone Icon's powerful AI ad maker with his own N8N creation at a fraction of the price. Here’s his entire workflow.

🔎 Deep Dive: An X user shares a mega-prompt he uses to make any AI model "a world-class researcher for free".

🩻 Inside Out: A Redditor tasked ChatGPT with creating X-Ray versions of regular photographs, and the results are fascinating.

🧠 Thought Ammo: Computer scientist Paul Graham makes an interesting observation on the importance of human writing in the age of AI, noting that written language has always functioned as a kind of "source code" for human thought and action.

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Midjourney Prompt: "An ultra-realistic photograph of a Lamborghini made entirely of colorfully decaying leaves, with visible water droplets on the leaves. The car is set against a tarmac road covered in yellow flower petals, creating texture and detail. The vibrant color scheme of the leaves contrasts sharply with the surrounding environment. The composition is flat, emphasizing the texture of the leaves and the intricate water droplets, captured in high resolution from a close-up perspective. The overall aesthetic is photorealistic, showcasing the fine details of the leaves, water droplets, and petals on the road. --ar 9:16 --v 7 --stylize 750

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