Google wows with major new releases

Welcome back, Superhuman. There’s nothing more dangerous than a trillion dollar company that operates like a startup. After being relatively slow to the gen AI party, Google now has a clear lead with the chart-topping Gemini 2.5 Pro. Their CEO is running polls on X and responding directly to user feedback. And yesterday the company announced more AI features in a day than most startups announce in a year. It’s time everyone started fearing Google again.

Today’s Insights

• New releases, Claude’s new tier, and Grok 3 has an API

• Everything you need to know about the new Google releases

• Tutorial: How to instantly research arXiv papers with AI

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

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

TODAY IN AI

1. Google wows with major new releases: The Gemini maker came to a knife fight packing a bazooka. Gemini 2.5 Flash was announced. The video model Veo 2 is now available to developers via the Gemini API. Live API is ready for production as well. Firebase Studio will now let anyone build an app with just a few prompts. There’s a new TPU chip that specializes in inference. There’s also a new open protocol that lets AI agents securely collaborate across ecosystems. More details on everything below.

2. Grok 3 is now available in API: Developers will get access to 2 models: Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini. Grok 3 is priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. Meanwhile, Grok 3 Mini will cost $0.30 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. Pricing seems to be on par with Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet but more expensive compared to Gemini 2.5 Pro.

3. Anthropic launches new Claude plans with higher usage limits: Power users have been complaining about getting rate limited on Claude for some time now (this includes me). So it’s welcome news that Claude now has new pricing tiers that come with 5x more usage for $100/month and 20x more usage for $200/month. Users who upgrade to the new Max plan will also get priority access to the latest features and models.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Everything you need to know about Google’s new AI announcements

The gloves are officially off. The Gemini maker pulled out all the stops, announcing a series of new releases focused on thinking models, agent ecosystems, and more.

Here’s the most important stuff you need to know:

• Gemini 2.5 Flash: Built for efficiency, 2.5 Flash offers developers speed and efficiency while incorporating thinking capabilities.

• Firebase Studio: In a bid to take on Cursor, Bolt, and others, the search giant announced Firebase Studio, an end-to-end platform that lets users build and deploy apps with a few simple prompts.

• Veo 2 in API: Developers now have access to the company’s premier video generation model via the Gemini API. Users, with billing enabled at Tier 1 and above, can access the model in the API, with support for text-to-video and image-to-video.

• Live API: The company’s Live API has officially launched for production use, now featuring support for 30 additional languages, two new voices, enhanced voice detection options, and an intuitive new UI.

• Ironwood: The company’s 7th gen TPU, which purportedly pumps out more than 42 exaflops of computing power per pod of 9,216 chips, packs 192GB memory capacity (6x its predecessor), and faster data access.

• Agent2Agent: A new open protocol geared towards helping AI agents collaborate securely across ecosystems.

• Media gen tools for Vertex AI: Major updates include Lyria for text-to-music creation, enhanced video editing controls for Veo 2, and Chirp 3's new 10-second custom voice feature.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to instantly research arXiv papers with AI

• Go to the AlphaXiv website and sign up.

• Now go to the ‘Assistant’ tab and enter your prompt.

Sample Prompt: What are the latest breakthroughs in RL fine-tuning?

• Wait for a few seconds, and AlphaXiv will generate a comprehensive literature review with trending arXiv papers, summaries, and context.

• You can ask anything about research papers and use ‘@’ to add papers to the context.

• Students and researchers can use this to turn hours of literature searches into seconds with AI-powered research context.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🖥️ Screen Sidekick: Microsoft is testing a Copilot upgrade that enables the AI assistant to interact with users' screens across any Windows application. It can coach users in navigating apps like Photoshop or guide them through a game of Minecraft, among other use cases.

🤺 Counter Attack: OpenAI has launched a countersuit against Elon Musk, alleging that he waged a harassment campaign using a $97B "sham" takeover bid to derail the startup’s for-profit transition.

🤝 Floating Friend: Adobe is streamlining workflows by integrating "creative agents" with apps like Photoshop and Premiere Pro. These agents can analyze content, suggest context-aware edits, and automatically execute complex tasks through a new floating Actions panel.

🔧 Site Starter: WordPress now offers a free AI-powered website builder that lets users create functional sites through simple chat conversations. Users get 30 free prompts before choosing a hosting plan that ranges from $96 to $300 per year.

💰 Funding: Legal tech startup Solve Intelligence has picked up $12M in fresh funding to streamline patent and IP workflows with an AI-powered document editor. Meanwhile, UK AI cloud provider NexGen Cloud secured $45M in Series A funding to expand its GPU-powered cloud infrastructure. And AI sales agent startup Artisan raised $25M in Series A funding.

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Implement Continuous Improvement

Prompt: Act as a Lean operations expert and help me implement a Continuous Improvement (Kaizen) strategy for [company or department name]. Provide a step-by-step plan that includes identifying inefficiencies, engaging team members, setting up feedback loops, tracking KPIs, and fostering a culture of daily improvement. Include practical tools (like PDCA, 5 Whys, or Gemba walks), examples relevant to my industry [insert industry], and suggestions for sustaining momentum over time.

SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🤖 Watch and Learn: Startup Kairos claims their AI product can learn your tasks and automate them just by watching your screen and listening to your instructions. The demo looks pretty cool.

🏗️ Prompt to App: Builder Paul Couvert shared a short video on how he built, prototyped, and deployed an app with the Firebase Studio.

🔢 Numbers Whiz: Rows founder Henrique Cruz shared a guide on how to plug AI into your spreadsheet and use prompts to query, analyze, and manipulate your sheets instead of writing long formulas. Pretty neat if you spend hours in Excel.

🤝 Another One: Notion is hopping onboard the MCP bandwagon. Developers can find the MCP on Github and use it to start building AI integrations with Notion in minutes.

AI-GENERATED IMAGES

Tokyo Rainfall

Midjourney Prompt: On rainy days, on the streets of Japan, the color matching effect is obvious, real photography, photography works, high quality, sparse people walking on the road with umbrellas --sref 3359732698 --sw 500 --v 6.1 --stylize 500 --profile r4vd5m3 --ar 9:16

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