AI Pulse 🚨
A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news.
🔥 OpenAI releases o3 and o4-mini models with full agentic tool use, visual reasoning capabilities, and the ability to “think with images” - marking a significant advancement in AI reasoning and problem-solving.
🚀 OpenAI has launched GPT-4.1, a new family of coding-focused models with a massive 1-million-token context window. The models are optimized for software engineering tasks and available through OpenAI’s API.
💡 Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash with “thinking budgets” to control AI costs. Developers can cut token costs up to 600% by adjusting computational power for less demanding tasks.
⌨️ OpenAI launches Codex CLI, an open-source terminal-based coding tool that integrates AI models with local development environments.
💻 OpenAI in talks to acquire Windsurf for $3B+, potentially sparking an AI apps acquisition trend among foundation model companies.
🔍 Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is now gradually rolling out to Copilot Plus PC users, allowing them to record and search their entire computer activity through continuous screenshots. The feature is opt-in only and can be disabled, though it has raised cybersecurity concerns about capturing sensitive information.
🎬 Google releases Veo 2 in Google AI Studio and Gemini API for creating 8-second videos from text/image prompts, featuring realistic physics and diverse styles.
🚀 Safe Superintelligence (SSI), led by ex-OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, raises $2B at $32B valuation. The AI startup, focused on safe superintelligent systems, remains secretive about its development.
🎮 NVIDIA has announced plans to manufacture AI supercomputers in the US for the first time, partnering with TSMC, Foxconn, and others to build facilities in Arizona and Texas. The initiative aims to produce up to half a trillion dollars of AI infrastructure within four years.
🔬 Claude launches Research for premium plans, offering AI search across internal docs and web with Google Workspace integration for quick, cited answers from emails, calendar, and documents..
🚀 JetBrains launches coding agent Junie and improved AI Assistant across all IDEs, offering free tier with unlimited code completion and local AI models.
🔄 Universal Memory MCP makes memory portable across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more, allowing users to carry links, chats, and notes across different LLMs
