March 19 AI News.
AI problem solving capabilities are doubling every seven months. Windsurf launches Wave 5 for coders. Grok allows you to go even deeper with your research and the UniTree G1 scores another first for robots. Here’s today’s AI news. New research suggests that the problem solving capability of AI is doubling every seven months.
The AI evaluation company Metr tests against ‘length of task’ as one of their key metrics. This means that if AI models are capable of solving a problem that would take a human 10 minutes to do today, in seven months time, then will be capable of solving a task that would take a human 20 minutes to complete.
And they’ve been tracking this since GPT 2. Some people are saying that this is like a Moore’s Law for AI agents and it gives us some insight into just how steep the exponential curve of AI is going to be. Windsurf has launched Wave 5, significantly enhancing its AI assisted coding tool with the introduction of the ‘Windsurf Tab’ feature.
This update as allows the AI to predict entire code sections, navigate through files and insert import statements with just a press of the tab key. The aim for Windsurf is to provide a seamless, intuitive coding environment that assists and predicts to make coding as efficient as possible.
Windsurf has already gained many fans with their products and this latest edition is already receiving a tonne of positive feedback. When Grok’s Deep Research tool doesn’t quite go deep enough, then you need deeper research. That’s right. Today, Grok rolled out the imaginatively titled ‘Deeper Research’ option that will dedicate longer thinking time and apply more reasoning to your request.
In our test, the Deeper Research tool took almost three minutes of thinking time before completing the request and the results were pretty impressive. We’ll be interested to see how well it does in some official benchmarking. Finally, after being taught to dance and fight, the Unitree G1 became the first humanoid robot to perform a side flip.
This amazing display of athletic ability is probably the most impressive single motion that we’ve seen from a robot to date. How long before robots are able to perform feats that far exceed the abilities of humans?