Block built its agent - 'codename goose' - to do it all, from writing code to ordering your dinner. Here's how to access it.

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Block's new open-source AI agent 'goose' lets you change direction mid-air

Jack Dorsey, cofounder and head of Block.Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesBlock, Jack Dorsey's company behind fintechs Square and Cash App, debuted an AI agent Tuesday.The AI helps with coding, is used by about 1,000 engineers internally, and took nine months to build.Two company insiders outline why they're making it available for anyone to use.As the race to develop AI agents on Wall Street heats up, one of the industry's largest fintechs has made the r…

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A lead Block engineer said the fintech's new AI agent writes better code than him — and the fintech is open-sourcing it to competitors

Block created a new open-source team and launched Goose, an open-source AI agent.

Fortune

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Block launches open-source AI agent Goose as Jack Dorsey praises DeepSeek's development approach

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Block introduces an on-device, open-source AI agent called Goose, which allows developers to choose their preferred LLM to automate engineering tasks

Block has created its own open-source AI agent called “codename goose" to help developers with engineering tasks.

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Jack Dorsey’s Block has an AI agent too

Goose’s capabilities are enhanced through Block’s collaboration with Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company.

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Jack Dorsey is back with Goose, a new, ultra simple open source AI agent building platform from his startup Block

The bird-themed social network Twitter’s identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isn’t stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project. Dorsey’s other company Block, the parent of point-of-sale service Square, mobile payments system Cash App, music streaming service Tidal, and other tech-driven financial tools, today launched Goose, a free, open-source framework that seeks to …

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This story incorporates reporting from ZDNet, Business Insider and MSN.Block, the technology company founded by Jack Dorsey, has announced the official launch of Goose, its open-source AI agent. Read more...

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Jack Dorsey's Block unveils open-source AI agent

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DeepSeek is the latest multimodal AI. Technically, DeepSeek is the name of the Chinese company releasing the models. The current models themselves are called “R1” and “V1.” Both are massively shaking up the entire AI industry following R1’s January 20 release in the US. Why? It comes with very low development costs, it’s open-source for commercial use, and it undercuts rivals like OpenAI — right at a time when the US government has bet more heav…

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What Is DeepSeek? China's New AI Is Now Open-Source

Goose's capabilities are enhanced through Block's collaboration with Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company.

Block's new open-source AI agent 'goose' lets you change direction mid-air

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