Meta's PyTorch team and Hugging Face have unveiled OpenEnv, an open-source initiative designed to standardize how developers create and share environments for AI agents. At its core is the OpenEnv Hub, a collaborative platform for building, testing, and deploying "agentic environments," secure sandboxes that specify the exact tools, APIs, and conditions an agent needs to perform a task safely, consistently, and at scale.
But reasoning models have changed the game, Midha said, referring to the new generation of AI systems designed to "reason"problems step by step, mimicking logic and reflection rather than predicting the next word in a sequence. These models can evaluate their own outputs better, break complex tasks into sub-tasks, and learn from feedback, potentially bringing AI closer to complex, real-world problem-solving.
A few months ago, I asked ChatGPT to recommend books by and about Hermann Joseph Muller, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who showed how X-rays can cause mutations. It dutifully gave me three titles. None existed. I asked again. Three more. Still wrong. By the third attempt, I had an epiphany: the system wasn't just mistaken, it was making things up.