Latent Space
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3 weeks ago
Cursor is building a forward-deployed engineering team to help enterprises implement AI agents across their entire software development lifecycle, moving beyond individual coding assistants to what the company calls an "AI software factory." The team plans to grow tenfold by the end of December, hiring software engineers with at least five years of experience and proven track records deploying production systems at companies like Spotify, Rippling, and Palantir. This shift addresses the enterprise challenge of scaling AI adoption beyond early adopters to enable consistent automation across teams, processes, and organizational functions.
TLDR
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3 weeks ago
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Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, an AI model positioned between its cheaper and most expensive offerings, with introductory API pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens through August 31. After the promotional period ends, pricing increases to $3 and $15 per million tokens respectively. The lower price point aims to attract enterprise developers seeking cost-effective access to advanced AI capabilities for building agent systems.
BAIR
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3 weeks ago
The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab celebrates its 2026 Ph.D. graduates, who conducted research across robotics, large language models, computer vision, AI safety, and human-AI interaction. The 25 profiled graduates are pursuing positions at major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Mistral AI, as well as faculty roles and AI startups. Their departures represent the distribution of Berkeley-trained AI researchers to influence the broader AI research and development landscape.
