Alibaba’s AgentEvolver increases tooling model performance by approximately 30% using automatically generated synthetic tasks

Researchers at Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab have developed a new framework for self-evolving agents that create their own training data by exploring their application environments. The frame, AgentEvolveruses the knowledge and reasoning capabilities of large language models for autonomous learning, addressing the high costs and manual effort typically required to collect task-specific data sets. Experiments show…

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China’s double pressure on European industry intensifies

European manufacturers face a two-pronged attack from China that has German industry associations warning of deindustrialization: on the one hand, artificially cheap Chinese goods are flooding Europe and, on the other, Beijing has demonstrated its willingness to abruptly cut off access to critical inputs such as rare earths and semiconductors. Alarm intensified in October when…

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The Counterintuitive Path to AI Adoption – O’Reilly

The following article originally appeared in Gradient flow and is republished here with the author’s permission. We are experiencing a peculiar moment in the development of AI. On the one hand, the demonstrations are spectacular: agents who reason and plan with apparent ease, models that compose original songs from a text messageand research tools that…

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