This Week in AI was WILD: Grok 2, Claude, SearchGPT, AgentQ and AI Scientist You Can’t Afford to Miss

Datadrifters
12 min readAug 17, 2024

If you thought last week was intense, wait until you read what happened this week. It was WILD!

There were some seriously game-changing tools and research that you have to know about, as they completely flipped the script.

Let me take you on a ride through the most exciting developments this week in AI:

  • Claude’s Prompt Caching
  • Grok 2
  • SearchGPT
  • Strawberries
  • AgentQ
  • AI Scientist
  • Google’s Gemini Event

Let’s GOOOOOO!

Summer in the garden

Anthropic’s Claude Gets Prompt Caching

Anthropic rolled out prompt caching for Claude, and if you’re anything like me, this is going to make your life a whole lot easier.

Here’s how it works: let’s say you’re running a conversational agent.

With prompt caching, you can keep a summary of your entire conversation history in the cache.

Basically storing all that context you usually send with every single API call — like, the long instructions, background knowledge, examples — without having…

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