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May 20 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Microsoft just made a ton of new AI announcements across GitHub, Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows, and more.

Here’s everything important announced live from Microsoft Build 2025:
1. GitHub Copilot is going from an in-editor assistant to a fully autonomous coding agent!

It works asynchronously to add features, fix bugs, extend tests, refactor code, and improve documentation

Plus, Microsoft is open-sourcing Copilot Chat in VS Code
2. Copilot Tuning: A new, low-code capability in Copilot Studio to train models and create agents using company data
3. All agents built can now be integrated with Teams and Copilot

Users can chat with them, assign action items, and kick off new workflows by mentioning them in a chat or meeting

Plus, the enhanced Teams AI library now supports MCP and A2A protocols.
4. Azure AI Foundry updated with new models including Grok 3, Flux Pro 1.1, and Sora (coming soon)

Also includes new model router, multi-agent workflows, observability features, and Foundry local for creating localized AI apps on Windows and Mac
5. Windows enhanced with new AI-focused capabilities, including:

—Windows AI Foundry with Windows ML, Foundry Local, ready-to-use AI APIs for vision and language tasks
—Native MCP support
—App Actions
—Open-sourced Windows Subsystem for Linux
6. NLWeb: A new open protocol to make any website an agentic application, capable of supporting AI search

This will allow users to query the contents of the site by using natural language, just like with an AI assistant or Copilot
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7. Microsoft Discovery: A new agentic platform that enables researchers to collaborate with specialized AI agents to drive scientific research and outcomes

The agents generate ideas, simulate results, and learn over time

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May 21
It's only been 1 day of Google I/O 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible.

The 11 most impressive reveals of I/O 2025 so far:

1. Revamped project Astra with native audio dialogue, UI control, content retrieval, calling, and shopping
2. Agent Mode: Gemini will create a plan and take actions (like finding apartments) on the web using Project Mariner and MCP

Coming soon to subscribers
3. Project Beam: A 3D video platform that uses a six-camera setup, AI, and a light field display to take videos from different angles, stitch them, and relay lifelike 3D avatars for lifelike real-time interaction

Coming later this year with HP
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May 8
AI NEWS: Mistral just launched a new multimodal AI promising SOTA performance at much lower cost

Plus, more news from Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Figma, and Netflix.

Here's everything you need to know:
Mistral just made two big reveals:

—Medium 3, a multimodal AI matching or surpassing 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Llama 4 Maverick across benchmarks with 8x lower costs

—Le Chat Enterprise with corporate tools like Google Drive, agent building, and more
Meta AI dropped Meta Perception Language Model, an open & reproducible vision-language AI for challenging visual tasks

It can watch videos and extract details like what a person is doing in the content and how they are doing it
Read 10 tweets
May 7
AI NEWS: Google just released a new version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, taking coding and web development to the next level

Plus, more news from HeyGen, Lighttricks, Windsurf, FutureHouse, Ace Studio, and Recraft.

Here's everything you need to know:
Google released an early preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition, delivering:

—Enhanced performance for frontend and UI dev, code editing, and agentic workflows
—Top score on LM Arena and WebDev Arena, beating Claude 3.7 Sonnet
—Video understanding features
HeyGen dropped Avatar IV, an AI for expressive animations

With one photo and voice script, its audio to expression engine captures tone, rhythm, and emotion to generate facial motion

Also supports different subjects, camera shots, and formats
Read 10 tweets
Apr 28
AI NEWS: China's Baidu just dropped ultra-affordable "Turbo" models, taking on OpenAI and DeepSeek

Plus, more news from OpenAI, Liquid AI, xAI, and Moonshot AI!

Here's everything you need to know:
Baidu dropped faster and cheaper ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo models

4.5 Turbo, with upgraded multimodality, costs 11c and 44c per million I/O tokens (0.2% of GPT-4.5).

X1 Turbo comes at 14c/55c per million I/O tokens, topping DeepSeek R1 and V3
OpenAI released a new lightweight version of Deep Research to meet user demand

—Powered by o4-mini and ‘nearly as intelligent’
—Expanded usage limits but shorter responses
—Available on all tiers, including free users
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Apr 22
TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just said AI can end all disease!

Plus, more news from Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, Play AI, and TextArena.

Here's everything you need to know:
Demis Hassabis appeared on 60 Minutes, sharing new insights into AI:

—AGI in 5-10 years, with conscious AI likely in the future
—AI fast-tracking drug discovery, potentially eradicating all disease within the next decade
—AI ensuring radical abundance
Anthropic just mapped Claude's morality!

The co analyzed 300K+ chats and found that the AI exhibits 5 key values, including practical and protective

This will improve our understanding of AI as it becomes more and more crucial to real-world decisions
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Apr 17
TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, its smartest models yet

Plus, more news from Google, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, Kling AI, and more.

Here's everything you need to know:
OpenAI dropped the new o3 and o4-mini reasoner models

o3 pushes SOTA performance across coding, math, science, and multimodality, while o4-mini offers fast, cost-efficient performance

Both have agentic access to ChatGPT tools and can "think with images"
Google is expanding Gemini Live's Project Astra capabilities—to all Android users!

This will enable users to engage with real-time visual AI and have multilingual conversations about anything seen and heard via their phone's camera or screen share
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