Proactive agents

How Bridgewater Turned 100 Million Documents Into an Edge - Sam Green & Aaron Linsky, Bridgewater

How Bridgewater Turned 100 Million Documents Into an Edge - Sam Green & Aaron Linsky, Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates' Applied AI and product engineering leads explain how they built the Vault, a governed repository of more than 100 million unstructured documents, and why humans and agents need different things from the same search system. They cover a hand-built benchmark that lifted precision at 10 from about 60% to over 90%, the filtering and scaling choices behind it, and the shift toward proactive agents that bring investors the topics most deserving of their attention.

Claude for Long-Horizon Tasks — Lance Martin, Anthropic

Claude for Long-Horizon Tasks — Lance Martin, Anthropic

Lance Martin from Anthropic shares insights into building reliable and secure long-horizon agents with Claude. He details architectural principles like decoupling the 'brain' from the 'hands' for reliability and security, implementing independent verifiers for self-correction, and developing advanced self-learning memory systems akin to human memory's in-band writing and offline 'dreaming' consolidation. The talk concludes with a vision for evolving agent harnesses towards organizational-level, proactive, and multiplayer capabilities.