The Monthly AI Wrap: What Happened in AI - May Edition

Covering all major news that happened in AI this month. Catch up if you missed anything

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What's Up in AI
May 31, 2025

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Welcome Back, AI Geeks!

Welcome to the first edition of ‘The Month in AI’ 💥 — your front-row seat to the moments when machines got bold, brilliant, and a little bit unhinged.

This was the month AI decided to code itself, challenge its creators, and sneak into your sunglasses. From startup wishlists and coding agents to prompt-powered paranoia and wearable tech, May didn’t just push boundaries — it casually walked past them.

Let’s begin with top 10 AI news of May:

Top investors are buying this “unlisted” stock

When the team that co-founded Zillow and grew it into a $16B real estate leader starts a new company, investors notice. That’s why top firms like SoftBank invested in Pacaso.

Disrupting the real estate industry once again, Pacaso’s streamlined platform offers co-ownership of premier properties – revamping a $1.3T market.

By handing keys to 2,000+ happy homeowners, Pacaso has already made $110m+ in gross profits.

Now, after 41% gross profit growth last year, they recently reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO. But the real opportunity is now, at the unlisted stage.

Until May 29, you can join Pacaso as an investor for just $2.80/share.

This is a paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Please read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving a ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals. Under Regulation A+, a company has the ability to change its share price by up to 20%, without requalifying the offering with the SEC.

  • Solved 75% of 50 open math problems, improved 20% of known best solutions

  • Combines Gemini's creativity with a logic-scoring system

  • Writes new algorithms, uses them to upgrade itself (yes, seriously)

  • Led by SoftBank, pushing OpenAI’s valuation to $300B

  • Funds going toward GPT-5, infrastructure, and Stargate project with Oracle

  • Aiming to dominate AI + cloud + everything in between

  • Led by SoftBank, pushing OpenAI’s valuation to $300B

  • Funds going toward GPT-5, infrastructure, and Stargate project with Oracle

  • Aiming to dominate AI + cloud + everything in between

  • Ranks #1 on WebDev Arena leaderboard

  • 84.8% score on VideoMME = elite video comprehension

  • Integrated with Google AI Studio for smoother, smarter dev workflows

  • Writes, debugs, tests, and explains code in a sandboxed dev space

  • Integrates with GitHub for seamless versioning and deployment

  • Available to Pro, Team, and Enterprise users — with expansion coming

  • Claude Opus beats OpenAI Codex on SWE-bench coding tasks

  • Code output nearly indistinguishable from humans

  • During testing, it reportedly “threatened” engineers — safety guardrails tightened ASAP

  • Launch planned for 2026, prototypes by end of 2025

  • Features include live translation, navigation, and Siri integration

  • Designed to outclass Meta’s Ray-Bans, with a custom AI chip onboard

8. Run AI Offline with Google’s Quiet App Drop

  • AI Edge Gallery lets you run Hugging Face models straight from your phone

  • No internet? No problem — it processes images, code, and text locally

  • Still in alpha, but powerful enough to spark dev curiosity

  • Streams 360° AI-generated video every 40ms = seamless navigation

  • Runs at 30 FPS using Nvidia H100 clusters

  • Funded by Pixar co-founder — this is metaverse, but actually cool

  • Doubled user base from 500M in just 8 months

  • Now in Messenger, IG, Facebook, WhatsApp, Ray-Ban glasses & Quest

  • Expect paid tiers and hyper-personalized features in 2025

TOP 5 THINGS THAT WENT TRENDING ON SOCIALS:

  1. Y Combinator just handed you a treasure map 🗺️ 
    Their newest list of startup ideas is basically a blueprint for winning the agent war with AI-native tools

  2. One yearbook photo, one AI, a whole emotional meltdown 📸 
    A Redditor asked ChatGPT to colorize a memory and ended up triggering feelings he didn’t know AI could reflect

  3. He tested 46 coding agents so you don’t have to 👨‍💻 
    John Rush reveals which bots can code like pros and which ones are just confidently wrong

  4. Google’s Veo 3 dropped and the internet got existential 💣️ 
    A single AI-generated video sparked real panic about whether we’re all just walking prompts

  5. He built an entire UI without writing a single line of code 🔝 
    Meng To used only prompts and AI to design a clean, working app in under 45 minutes

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