AI News – May 16
OpenAI launched Codex an autonomous coding agent Higgsfield lets you create incredible ads on a tiny budget and Tesla FSD takes on the ultimate driving challenge. Here’s today’s AI news. This morning OpenAI announced the release of Codex, an AI software engineering agent that can write code, fix bugs and handle multiple tasks in parallel.
This is more than just a coding assistant. It’s designed to be autonomous and can develop code in the background while you work on other things. Codex is powered by a new model called Codex One and OpenAI claim that this is their best coding model to date. This all comes less than 10 days after OpenAI acquired windsurf for $3 billion.
It’s clear that OpenAI is looking to be seen as a leader in the AI coding arena and as the first choice for enterprise level code creation. Let’s see if Google has anything that can compete with this when IO 2025 kicks off next week. Higgsfield have been attracting lots of interest since their launch as they’ve been able to demonstrate such high quality visual effects.
Today they showcase their new advertising tool, Higgsfield Ads, which transforms a single product photo into an amazing looking advertisement. There are already more than 40 templates and 80 different motion styles to choose from, making the whole process quick and easy. This will be an absolute game changer for small companies and startups looking to produce some incredible marketing on a tiny budget.
But will it be enough to attract some more serious commercial interest? And finally, Tesla’s full self driving system just passed one of the ultimate real world tests. It successfully navigated around the notoriously complex Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris, demonstrating its capability to handle one of the most challenging driving environments in the world.
If you haven’t been keeping an eye on the progress of Tesla’s FSD, this will show you just how far it has come. If the Tesla can handle this, then it seems like it’s ready for pretty much anything.