The new agent, called Asimov, was developed by Reflection, a small but ambitious startup cofounded by top AI researchers from Google. Reflection’s ultimate goal is building superintelligent AI—something that other leading AI labs say they are working toward. Laskin adds that teaching AI to make sense of software development will also produce much more useful coding assistants. The smaller agents retrieve information, and one larger reasoning agent synthesizes this information into a coherent answer to a query. Reflection claims that Asimov already is perceived to outperform some leading AI tools by some measures.