AI Pulse 🚨
A bite-sized curation of this week's most important AI news.
🚀Google dropped Gemini 2.5 Pro, its smartest model yet—ranking #1 on LMArena with top-tier coding and reasoning scores. It introduces a new “thinking model” structure that boosts problem-solving accuracy, and supports a massive 1M-token context window—doubling to 2M soon. 🤯
🖼️ OpenAI replaces DALL·E with native image generation in GPT-4o, delivering visuals that are sharper, more prompt-aware, and better at rendering text. Multi-turn editing is now built-in, and it's live for all ChatGPT users—including the free tier.
💰OpenAI expects revenue to triple to $12.7B this year (up from $3.7B in 2024), fueled by 2M paid corporate users. Some advanced products may cost thousands per month, but profitability isn’t expected until 2029.
🧠 DeepSeek released its upgraded V3-0324 model with major improvements in reasoning, code generation, and Chinese language tasks.
🔄 OpenAI’s Agent SDK now supports MCP (Model Context Protocol). This unlocks a wide range of tools for agents, with support for the OpenAI API and ChatGPT desktop app on the way.
🔍 Perplexity adds structured answers and verticals for travel, shopping, jobs, images, and videos. The new answer modes come with built-in commerce capabilities and a more visual, card-style experience.
🤖 Qwen (Alibaba) launches Qwen2.5-Omni, a multimodal model with a “Thinker-Talker” architecture—enabling seamless voice and video chat. A strong contender in the multimodal race.
🔊 OpenAI rolls out next-gen audio models, including Voice Engine—able to mimic realistic voices from just a short sample, perfect for apps that need lifelike speech generation.
💻 Zapier adds MCP integration, letting users create AI agents that plug directly into Slack, Google Calendar, Jira, and more.
🔐 Microsoft expands its Security Copilot suite with 11 new AI agents, aimed at easing cybersecurity workloads—tackling phishing detection, incident response, and regulatory notice drafting.
📉 College graduate unemployment is up 30% since 2022, with degree-based hiring slowing faster than other sectors—a signal that knowledge work might be entering a new era.
