AI Takes Over Your Browser to Manage Tasks

This AI assistant offers far more than simple conversation. Assign it a task, and it will take control of your mouse and web browser, devise a plan, and execute the job step-by-step, whether it’s booking a hotel or launching and managing a business.

The commercial and scientific applications of AI continue to expand rapidly. Recently, we’ve seen AI discover a new magnet free of rare earth elements, assess the emotions of crisis-line callers, assist with weather and climate forecasting, and even try to improve airline food.

However, in the consumer market, AI has mostly been limited to answering questions, explaining ideas, and generating various types of content.

Essentially, it excels at “thinking” but has not been very proactive or action-oriented.

Enhancing JACE’s Online Task Automation

Startup Zeta Labs aims to revolutionize this by integrating its proprietary web-interaction AI engine, AWA-1 (Autonomous Web Agent-1), with its JACE interface. This combination allows the system to perform a series of online tasks based on just a few straightforward prompts.

For instance, you could instruct the system to book an Airbnb for specific dates, in a particular neighborhood, and within a certain budget.

In a demonstration video on the Zeta Labs website, co-founder Frydery Wiatrowski explains how the team actively tested the system by using it to establish a math-tutoring business.

According to a company press release, the system not only guided the user through the steps of establishing the company but also secured its first client and generated revenue within two weeks.

Peter Albert, a co-founder of Zeta Labs, states, “Our mission at Zeta Labs is to empower AI models to engage with the digital environment. Our AWA-1 model enables JACE to manipulate a browser, effectively providing the AI assistant with digital ‘arms and legs.’ Unlike other chatbots available today, which cannot book trips, pay invoices, or create job posts, JACE can handle these tasks.”

JACE Achieves 89% Success with AWA-1, Outperforms GPT-4o and Open-Source Agents in Task Completion

Zeta Labs reports that their AI, JACE, achieved an 89% task completion rate using the AWA-1 model in tests like ordering pizza and finding specific apartments in London. This compares to 68% with GPT-4o and 25% with an open-source agent based on GPT-4o.

Wiatrowski notes that JACE still has issues with complex tasks and slow browsing speeds, which are being addressed.

Despite JACE’s weaker performance with GPT-4o, OpenAI and Google’s upcoming Assistant with Bard present competitive challenges.

However, Zeta Labs has secured $2.9 million in pre-seed funding from notable investors like Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman. Gross emphasizes the transformative potential of integrating AI with web browsing.

You can join the JACE waitlist on Zeta Labs’ website.

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