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Google Keeps on Shipping: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Veo3
Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, now second only to OpenAI's o3-pro, and Veo3, ranked #2 in video generation models, as the company continues shipping new AI products.
newsLearning: Best AI Guides and YouTube Channels
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have released official AI learning guides, plus a curated list of the top 10 YouTube channels for beginners.
newsTwo major June AI conferences: AI Engineer SF vs AI Tech Week NY
A comparison of AI Engineer SF (June 3-5) and AI Tech Week NY (June 2-8) finds the former concentrates top speakers while the latter spreads content across multiple venues with more noise.
newsGoogle I/O 2025: Gemini agents, AI-first Android, and new hardware
Google unveiled Gemini agents across Search, Android, and new hardware, positioning AI to handle tasks autonomously while users point and direct.
newsDeepMind AlphaEvolve: evolutionary coding agent discovers new algorithms
DeepMind's AlphaEvolve, revealed May 14, 2025, uses evolutionary algorithms powered by Gemini-2 to discover new code that beats 56-year-old methods for matrix multiplication, recovers 0.7% of Google's compute fleet, and speeds up Gemini kernels by 23%.
newsOpenAI Codex: cloud SWE agent built on codex-1 reasoning model
OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent built on its o3 reasoning model that executes coding tasks like feature writing, bug fixes, and tests in parallel within sandboxed environments, completing work in 1–30 minutes with…
newsTikTok, Google, Meta can run human experiments at scale
TikTok, Google, and Meta can run psychological experiments on billions of users, dwarfing the sample sizes of famous studies that used dozens of people.
newsGoogle launches A2A agent-to-agent protocol with 50 partners
Google launched A2A, an agent-to-agent protocol enabling multimodal communication between AI agents via JSON cards, with 50 partners at launch and built on HTTP, SSE, and JSON-RPC for interoperability.
newsGoogle Gemini 2.5 Pro launches with strong benchmarks
Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro launches with 1M token context window, 63.8% score on SWE-Bench Verified, and multimodal reasoning capabilities across text, audio, images, and video.
newsFun Fact: "please and thank you" are costing OpenAI millions
https://x.com/sama/status/1912646035979239430 If you're curious to know how the sausage is made 🥩 + 🥖 = 🌭 1\. Bookmark tweets, videos and blog posts over a month 2\. Combine them into a sheet https
newsGoogle Flash 2.0 Image Generation, Gemma 3 27B
Google launched Gemini 2.0 Flash with native image generation on March 12, while releasing Gemma 3 27B, a 27-billion-parameter open-source model that tops small-model benchmarks with 128K token context and multilingual support.
newsMatt Segall — Is The Universe Conscious?
Philosopher Matthew Segall argues that current materialist models of reality are as limited as Ptolemy's astronomy, and that consciousness may be fundamental to the universe.
newsHyperscaler Capex
Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon spent $528 billion on AI infrastructure in 2024 as leaders predict AGI could arrive within 1-2 years.
newsGemini 2.0 Flash — Cheapest Model Yet
Google released Gemini 2.0 Flash at $0.40 per million tokens with a 1M-token context window, enabling processing of thousands of PDFs for under $1.
newsNumber of H100s Bought in 2024
Microsoft bought 450,000 H100 GPUs in 2024, followed by Meta with 350,000, Amazon with 196,000, and Google with 169,000.
newsNew Distributed Training Paper from Google DeepMind
New Distributed training paper from Google DeepMind https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1885301292131582347