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Gemini 2.5 Pro dominates dev tools, Saudi Arabia x Nvidia & Meta AI tackles loneliness for profit
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What's Up in AI
May 14, 2025
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🤯 Gemini 2.5 Pro drops early and dominates dev tools
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🧠 Saudi Arabia x Nvidia Partnership
📈 Zuckerberg’s Meta AI tackles loneliness with profit-driven emotional data
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LATEST IN AI TODAY
Surprise Launch! Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview arrived weeks ahead of schedule, giving developers early access to upgraded AI tools.
It’s now #1 on the WebDev Arena leaderboard, praised for creating gorgeous, functional web apps with ease.
Used by cutting-edge companies like Cursor and Cognition, Gemini 2.5 Pro is pushing the limits of agentic programming.
With an 84.8% score on the VideoMME benchmark, it enables powerful tools like “Video to Learning App” inside Google AI Studio.
Front-end devs can now skip the tedious CSS grind the model handles layout and design like a pro.
Saudi Arabia’s AI push just got serious, it’s partnering with Nvidia and local startup Humain to scale up its AI and cloud infrastructure.
The deal is part of a broader effort to move beyond oil and build Saudi into a global AI powerhouse.
Backed by the Public Investment Fund, Humain will use Nvidia’s tools to roll out models, data centers, and new AI services across the region.
Saudi Arabia and Nvidia are teaming up to teach 4,000 locals generative AI skills as part of the Vision 2030 push.
The Kingdom’s building a 500MW AI hub using 18,000 of Nvidia’s latest chips to supercharge its global AI ambitions.
Mark Zuckerberg says AI chatbots can be your new friends and a fix for the loneliness epidemic.
Meta’s metaverse dream has faded. Now, Meta AI is live, powered by Llama 3 and built into all Meta apps.
You can chat, create images, search the web but the twist? A social feed that shows others’ chatbot convos.
Zuck says most people want more friends. Meta AI is built to “know you” like your feed does.
But this isn’t charity. Emotional data means profit — and deeper chats will likely come at a price.
BRAIN BOOST 🧠
Mistral’s Medium 3 offers affordable AI for business use but at the cost of transparency. What does this suggest about the future of enterprise AI models? |
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3-THINGS IN TREND
Someone used ChatGPT to turn a D&D sketch into a vivid digital world complete with dungeons, weapons, and fire.
A list of bold startup ideas for the agentic AI era is making waves some could be billion-dollar hits.
A deepfake of teenage Elon Musk, Robert Downey Jr., and other celebrities snapping selfies is going viral it looks almost too real.
2-USEFUL LINKS
If you’re looking for some image-gen inspiration, designer Jack Hillery has been sharing professional-quality logos and other creations. You can find some of his prompts here.
1-TOP ROBO NEWS
Amazon just introduced Vulcan, a touch-sensitive warehouse robot that can feel items with its gripper. It handles 75 percent of the million-plus products in one facility, runs 20 hours a day, and lifts up to 8 pounds. But Amazon says it’s not replacing workers, just freeing them up for higher-skilled tasks as automation continues to grow.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🚀 Gemini 2.5 Pro Soft-Launched Early
Google quietly rolled out Gemini 2.5 Pro ahead of I/O, with major upgrades for web app development and coding tasks. It now tops the WebDev Arena Leaderboard and scored 84.8% on VideoMME.
🔍 Safari Searches Drop for First Time in 22 Years
Apple exec Eddy Cue blames AI for Safari’s historic search dip, revealing the company may revamp Safari to support tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, despite Google paying ~$19B to stay default.
🎬 Netflix Debuts AI Search with ChatGPT
Netflix is testing a new ChatGPT-powered search on iOS that lets users browse with natural language prompts for smarter, more personalized recommendations.
💡 Apple Taps Anthropic for Xcode AI Tools
Apple is reportedly partnering with Anthropic to create AI tools for Xcode, aiming to automate writing, editing, and testing code in its development environment.
⏰ Fiverr CEO Warns: AI Could Replace Us All
Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman told employees that AI may soon take over their jobs — including his. He joins other tech leaders leaning into transparency as AI disruption grows.
🧭 News Gets Smarter with AI-Powered Aggregator
Former Twitter and Tesla employees have launched a sleek AI-driven news platform that curates articles and links directly to sources for deeper reading.
Funding 💰️
OpenAI is set to acquire Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for $3 billion, marking its largest deal yet to boost its AI-assisted coding capabilities
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