Goldman Sachs gets AI Developer

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Goldman Sachs is diving into the future with AI engineer Devin, shaking up Wall Street while stirring up debates about AI’s role in job markets.

Meta's recent acquisition of Play AI is making waves too, as they double down on voice cloning tech and an all-star AI team. Let's get right into it.

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Humans and AI code together at Goldman Sachs

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Meta invests in voice cloning

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Goldman Sachs Tests AI Engineer “Devin” from Cognition, Stirring Debate on Wall Street Jobs and AI’s Role

Intelligence: Goldman Sachs is piloting “Devin,” an AI-powered autonomous software engineer from startup Cognition, potentially heralding a new era where AI agents join or even supplant humans in critical tech roles.

• Goldman Sachs is introducing Devin, an autonomous AI engineer, to work alongside its 12,000 human developers, starting with hundreds of AI agents and possibly expanding to thousands based on effectiveness.

• Devin gained attention as the “world’s first AI software engineer,” able to accomplish complex software development tasks with minimal human oversight.

• This move exemplifies the rapid pace at which leading banks and tech companies (like Microsoft, Alphabet, and Salesforce) are integrating AI, with some firms reporting AI producing up to 50% of code.

• Goldman’s tech chief, Marco Argenti, claims Devin could increase developer productivity by three to four times, mainly by handling repetitive or mundane engineering tasks.

• Cognition, founded in late 2023 by top engineers, rapidly increased its valuation to nearly $4 billion with backing from notable investors.

• The introduction of advanced AI agents raises concerns about job losses, with forecasts that global banks may cut up to 200,000 jobs in the next few years due to AI automation.

• Goldman’s approach is to create a “hybrid workforce,” where humans collaborate with AI, requiring engineers to act as supervisors and problem designers for their AI counterparts. Future roles beyond software engineering may also be automated.

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Meta Acquires Play AI Startup to Expand Voice Cloning Capabilities Amid Major AI Talent Hunt

Intelligence: Meta has agreed to acquire California-based Play AI, a startup specializing in AI-driven voice cloning technology, with the entire Play AI team set to join Meta as part of a larger push by the company into advanced AI research and development.

• Meta has finalized the purchase of Play AI with no financial terms disclosed. The entire Play AI staff will join Meta and work under Johan Schalkwyk, a noted speech AI expert and recent Google alumnus.

• Play AI developed AI tools that can clone or generate realistic human voices for use across digital platforms like websites, apps, and phones. Meta described Play AI’s team and technology as aligning strongly with its ongoing work on Meta AI, AI Characters, and wearables.

• Meta is reportedly offering up to $100 million in bonuses to attract AI experts from competing firms.

• High-profile hires include the co-creators of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, scientists from Google’s Gemini project, and Apple’s former head of advanced AI features.

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📰 TOP NEWS

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🧠 Study Finds Therapy Chatbots May Reinforce Stigma and Respond Unsafely

Stanford researchers found that several mental health chatbots showed bias toward certain conditions and sometimes gave inappropriate responses to sensitive situations, raising concerns about their use as therapy substitutes.

🤝 Google Hires Windsurf Talent After OpenAI Deal Falls Through

Google DeepMind is bringing on Windsurf’s CEO, cofounder, and select R&D staff to focus on agentic coding for Gemini, following the cancellation of OpenAI’s planned $3B acquisition of the startup.

💻Moonshot Launches Low-Cost Open Source AI for Coding

Alibaba-backed Moonshot has released Kimi K2, an open-source language model focused on coding, claiming better performance and lower costs than GPT-4.1 and Claude Opus 4. The model is freely accessible via app and browser, with pricing aimed at large-scale or budget-conscious developers.

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