Polyfork, which sells customizable 3D models, won the $500,000 Build with Gemini XPRIZE on September 25. XPRIZE reports $4,428 from 54 customers in its first month; four other finalists split another $500,000.
Box CEO Aaron Levie said companies holding customers' data must build an agent provably 10–20 points better than off-the-shelf ones at their workflows and also open their APIs to Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants, or lose.
Peregrine's Ben Rudolph said agents running for hours write about 90% of the Python notebooks that integrate agencies' public-safety records, under deployment-team oversight — part of the preparation the podcast host put at 95% of the work.
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