Gemini 2.5 has arrived

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Welcome back, Superhuman. Where to begin. There was enough AI news over the past 24 hours to fill an entire week’s worth of newsletters, from ChatGPT’s native image generation to Gemini 2.5. Plus, we talk to the CEO of Box about how agents will reshape our workplaces over the next few years.

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Today’s Insights

• Gemini 2.5, native image generation, and Perplexity’s new verticals

• Five big insights on the future of agentic work

• Tutorial: How to create MindMaps with NotebookLM

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. Google drops Gemini 2.5, its most intelligent LLM yet: The theories flooding social media turned out to be spot on. Google finally revealed that “Nebula” is actually an experimental version of its new reasoning model, Gemini 2.5 Pro. The multimodal LLM just registered the “largest score jump ever” on the LMArena leaderboard. It also shot to the top of math and science tests like GPQA and AIME 2025, even beating OpenAI’s o3-high. Just keep in mind, it’s only available for Advanced subscribers and developers for now.

2. ChatGPT gets an image generation overhaul: Mere hours after Google’s announcement, OpenAI countered with the news that it’s finally bringing native image generation to ChatGPT. That means GPT-4o will replace DALL-E as the platform’s default image generator. 4o’s multimodal capabilities mean it’s especially good at things like character consistency, transparent layers, and complicated prompts. Plus, while traditional VLMs are notoriously bad at reproducing text, GPT-4o can seamlessly embed entire sentences into your images. See our tutorial below

3. You can now tackle more tasks directly inside Perplexity: The AI search startup just released a new set of “answer tabs” that let you filter for images, videos, shopping, and other specific formats. A “travel” tab, for example, lets you see a list of top hotels and even book a stay at your favorite without having to navigate away from the app.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

AI agents will change everything — Box CEO Aaron Levie

Aaron Levie has seen it all as the CEO of Box. We sat down with him to learn how agents are reshaping the future of work. Here are five big insights:  

• AI is moving 10x faster than the cloud boom: There were only a few major players in cloud but AI has multiple players releasing frontier models at a regular cadence. There’s a major breakthrough almost every week or two — something we haven’t seen in any new technological wave before.

• There’s no better time to adjust your workflow around AI: As LLMs get more powerful and efficient, those of us who’ve already figured out how to use them will have a huge advantage. You can start by setting up multiple tabs on your computer and asking agents to conduct deep research for you. That alone can save hours each week.

• The key to riding the next AI startup wave: Think up a tool that everyone wants but no one has managed to create yet. AI can help you build products that weren’t feasible even a few years ago. For example, AI coding tools have helped users create custom apps from scratch in hours.

• Agents will turn us all into managers: In the years ahead, we’ll likely spend more time teaching agents how to work and synthesizing their outputs. Ironically, that also means we’ll get to focus more on creative pursuits, since AI will take command of the repetitive tasks that currently eat up so much of our time.

• Companies will get smaller but also more profitable: Startups with truly original ideas will rise to the top. We’ve already seen companies like Cursor generate $100M in revenue with just a few dozen employees, because AI is now automating so much of the process.

We also asked him how Box is adapting to the AI era, how AI will affect job creation, and why vibe coding isn’t just for beginners.

👉 Watch the full conversation here

THE AI ACADEMY

How to turn your images into ads with ChatGPT

• Go to ChatGPT and select GPT-4o as your model.

• Now take an image of the product and another image to copy the style and upload both images to ChatGPT.

• Enter your prompt and press enter.

Sample Prompt: Create an ad of the [enter product] in the first image in the exact same style as the ad in the second image

• You’ll get an ad creative with the image style of your choice. You can ask it to edit and make changes while keeping the image consistent.

• You can also specify what text you would like in the ad.

• Download the creative and use it for your campaign.

See our images section at the bottom of today’s email to see more examples of ads we’ve created.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

💬 Teams Work: Microsoft just supercharged Copilot with “deep research” tools called Researcher and Analyst, which leverage OpenAI's models to help users dive deep into data, develop strategies, and perform complex analyses across work and web sources.

🏅 It’s Official: DeepSeek’s newly-updated V3 model jumped past the likes of Grok 3 and Claude 3.7 to become the top non-reasoning model in the world, according to independent benchmarking company Artificial Analysis.

📖 Novel Narratives: Midjourney teamed up with New York University to develop two new techniques that help LLMs get out of their usual writing ruts for use in fiction writing and poetry.

🗂️ Meeting Master: Transcription startup Otter unveiled a new agent that can answer questions that come up during meetings, using a combination of real-world knowledge, company data, and even info picked up from past meetings.

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Repurpose Content

Prompt: I have a [type of content: blog post, podcast, video, etc.] about [topic]. Help me repurpose it into multiple formats to reach different audiences. Create a Twitter/X thread, a LinkedIn post, an Instagram carousel outline, and a short YouTube or TikTok video script. Adapt the tone and style for each platform while keeping the core message engaging and consistent. Bonus: Suggest a catchy title or hook for each version to maximize engagement.

SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

👀 On Our Radar: A mysterious X account called New Systems claims it released the “world’s most intelligent, creative, and fastest model” — but it doesn’t pass the smell test. For one, the graphs it shared look completely made up. Is it all an elaborate hoax, a commentary on the AI industry, or something else entirely?

🧒 Never Too Young: See what happened when psychologist Gena Gorlin let her 5-year-old daughter try ChatGPT. Topics covered include: Cryogenics, longevity, and “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”

🖼️ Ahead of the Curve: Google’s Logan Kilpatrick (whom we just interviewed) had a cheeky way of reminding OpenAI that Gemini beat it to the punch with native image generation.

🦿 Great Strides: Figure says it has taught its humanoid robots how to walk just like humans by simulating “years of data in only a few hours.” (Here’s a deep dive if you want to learn more.)

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Generating Ghibli style ads with ChatGPT

ChatGPT Prompt: Create an ad for the Superhuman AI newsletter in the style of Studio Ghibli. Girl in the image should be looking down at a phone in her hand. Text should be stylized. Heading is "Superhuman AI" and subheading is "Get ahead with AI." Image attached for reference. [Attach image]

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