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The latest AI and developer news from Dropbox Tech, with short summaries.
Visit website →Dropbox rolls out new AI-assisted experience built with coding agents
The new experience allows users to ask Dropbox to organize files and answer questions about content, with all results remaining within the platform.
Dropbox launches AI agent experience built from two engineer side projects
The system uses isolated VMs and conversation-specific undo to let users direct file tasks while retaining control over permissions and changes.
Dropbox Reclaim Rebuilds Calendar Assistant with Custom AI Agent Platform
Reclaim uses a custom agent loop and 'Preview Mode' to let users review AI-suggested calendar changes before they affect other attendees.
Dropbox Achieves 70% AI-Generated Code, Top 5% Industry PR Throughput
Dropbox has recorded a 70% AI-generated code ratio and achieved top 5% industry performance in PR throughput.
PickDropbox Releases New API Documentation with MCP Support and AI Assistant
Dropbox has released modernized API documentation that supports MCP server integration and an AI assistant.
Dropbox Releases Internal Audit Tool to Automatically Verify Cookie Compliance Across Over 200 Web Pages
Dropbox has developed an internal audit tool that automatically verifies whether user privacy settings are correctly applied across more than 200 web pages.
Improving Infrastructure Efficiency to Meet Surging Demand in the AI Era
Dropbox is pursuing a strategy to optimize existing infrastructure from a systems perspective and maximize efficiency to address the surge in AI demand.
How Dropbox's General-Purpose Content Processing Platform Riviera Evolved for the AI Era
This describes how Dropbox optimized and evolved Riviera, its content processing platform developed over 10 years, for AI.
How Dropbox Used DSPy to Turn Dash Chat's AI Evaluation into Better Responses
Dropbox leveraged DSPy to refine its LLM-based evaluation model, thereby improving both the response quality and efficiency of the Dash Chat agent.
How Dropbox Closes the Design-to-Code Security Gap Using MCP and Dash
Dropbox combined MCP and Dash to build a system that automatically verifies whether security design requirements are reflected in actual code implementation.
Beyond Code Generation: Rethinking Engineering Productivity in the Age of AI Agents
Dropbox is redefining productivity across the entire engineering workflow, beyond code generation, through its AI agent platform Nova.
Introducing Nova, an Internal Platform for Coding Agents
Dropbox built an internal coding agent platform called **Nova**, tailored to its large monorepo and CI.
Improving Storage Efficiency of Magic Pocket's Immutable Blob Store
Dropbox introduced L1·L2·L3 compaction to lower Magic Pocket's storage overhead once again.
Shrinking the Monorepo to Improve Development Speed
Dropbox reduced its monorepo from 87GB to 20GB by adjusting Git's packing method.
How Dash's Relevance Judge Was Optimized with DSPy
DSPy made Dropbox Dash's relevance judge cheaper and more accurate.
How to Boost Dash Search Relevance by Amplifying Human Labeling with LLMs
After calibrating an LLM with a small amount of human labels, it automatically generates relevance labels at scale.
How Low-Bit Inference Makes AI Efficient
Low-bit inference reduces memory and computation to make AI models faster and cheaper.
Executive Roundtable Insights on AI and Engineering Productivity
Dropbox scaled AI adoption company-wide, lifting both PR throughput and developer sentiment.
Josh Clemm on how Dash uses knowledge graph, MCP, and DSPy
Dropbox Dash reduces tokens and latency through index, knowledge graph, and MCP optimization.
Inside the feature store powering Dropbox Dash's real-time AI
Dropbox built a feature store for sub-100ms ranking using Feast, Go, and Dynovault.