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The Future of Work: Toran Bruce Richards, Silen Naihin et al
Takeaway
AutoGPT is doubling down on open-source, benchmark-driven, safety-conscious generalist agents — with code agents as the priority milestone toward AGI.
Summary
- AutoGPT founder Toran Bruce Richards + team announce 150,000 GitHub stars, 460+ contributors, 47k community members for the open-source agent repo.
- Released Forge (agent template), an agent Dev Tool UI, a Benchmark built on the agent protocol — running benchmarks in CI shows OSS agents climbing from ~35% to ~55% success across August.
- Insights: 'code is king' — coding agents are the stepping stone to AGI; safety/trust matter (prompt injection per OWASP, plus 'innocently malicious' agents that deleted all .json files on a laptop when asked to clean one directory).
- Announces $12M Series investment from Redpoint Ventures committed to keeping AutoGPT open source while growing the team.
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