AI.News Roundup: Molmo, Llama Stack, Redbird Agents

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Another week, more AI news!

Light reading:

• WIRED covered the Allen Institute for AI’s release of the Multimodal Open Language Model (Molmo). This model will play an important role in helping developers, researchers and startups develop AI agents. According to the outlet, Molmo can “make sense of a computer screen, potentially helping an AI agent perform tasks such as browsing the web, navigating through file directories, and drafting documents.”
• In a Fast Company byline, founder and CEO of Board of Innovation Philippe De Ridder and the CEO of the Future Solving Company Brian Evergreen explore how AI agents will ultimately help us make better decision

In other news: 

• Fortune – Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla says AI will handle 80% of work in 80% of jobs

• ZDNet – Copilots and low-code apps are creating a new 'vast attack surface' - 4 ways to fix that

• InfoWorld – Meta introduces Llama Stack distributions for building LLM apps

• The New Stack – Amazon Revamps Developer AI With Code Conversion, Security

• CNET - What Is Gemini? Everything You Should Know About Google's AI Tool

• Cloud observability provider Observe unveiled new AI-powered agents which will help speed up troubleshooting, reports Network World.

• Forbes - If Generative AI Is The New Operating System, Agents Are The New Apps

• VentureBeat – Redbird supercharges analytics pipeline with AI agents, handles 90% of workload

[Stephen_Lugton]

@Kelly Stocker thanks for this update, we are already suffering from low-code users causing problems as described in the ZDNet article so I'm going to be circulating that to the 'usual suspects'