In July 2025, Nvidia briefly surpassed a $4 trillion market capitalization, becoming the world’s first company to reach a $4T valuation. In July 2025, Google DeepMind signed a $2.4 billion deal to license Windsurf technology after OpenAI’s $3 billion Windsurf bid collapsed, an acqui-hire boosting Project Gemini. Moonshot AI released Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source…
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Meta’s AI power play: the first mega-cluster, Prometheus, comes online in 2026, with a second (Hyperion) scaling to 5 gigawatts later, and Zuckerberg boasts that one cluster covers a significant part of Manhattan’s footprint. Zuckerberg personally leads a “talent raid” to hire top engineers after Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI, and in 2025…
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Perplexity’s Comet is a Chromium-based AI browser available today to Perplexity Max subscribers and waitlisted users, with Windows and macOS support and mobile versions in development. Comet’s AI automation sidebar can automatically compare shipping options across online stores to find the fastest shipping or best return policies. xAI’s Grok 4 is now accessible to individual…
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Nvidia briefly reached a $4 trillion market value in July 2025, with shares peaking at $164.42 on July 9 and closing that day at about a $3.97 trillion market cap. Nvidia guided about $45 billion in quarterly revenue for Q2 FY2026 (the quarter ending July). Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU with the…
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On July 13, 2025, OpenAI indefinitely postponed the release of its open-weight model to conduct further safety tests, noting weights cannot be pulled back once released. On the same day, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks and is optimized for agentic tasks.…
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GitHub Copilot rolled out the coding agent, called Agent Mode (Project Padawan), in 2025 to autonomously implement tasks, spin up cloud dev environments, write code, and open pull requests, available to Copilot Enterprise and new Pro+ subscribers. Copilot Chat now uses local codebase feeds to align answers with actual code, and Copilot for Pull Requests…
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Jill Watson, a virtual teaching assistant built on IBM Watson, debuted at Georgia Tech in 2016 to answer routine online course questions. Khanmigo, launched in 2023 by Khan Academy and built on GPT-4, is an AI tutor and teacher’s assistant now available by subscription in 2025 and tested in classrooms such as Oklahoma. Squirrel AI,…
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Replika launched in 2017 and by 2025 has over 35 million users worldwide, including about 250,000 paying subscribers. Replika Pro costs about $5.83–$15.99 per month (varies by plan), roughly $70 per year, with a $299 lifetime option. Replika Pro unlocks a romantic partner mode with longer memory, more intimate roleplay, voice calls, and AR/VR features.…
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Google DeepMind hired Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and key R&D staff after OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition bid for Windsurf collapsed, and secured a non-exclusive license to Windsurf’s technology. Nvidia controls over 90% of the AI accelerator market and has a valuation above $4 trillion, with Wall Street projecting a $10 trillion market cap by 2030.…
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Character.AI has over 20 million active users by 2025, and its mobile app logged 1.7 million first-week downloads compared with ChatGPT’s 0.5 million. Anthropic’s Claude features a 100,000-token memory and a ~75,000-word context window, with improved coding and math skills. Google’s Gemini is a multimodal model in testing by mid-2025, and Google launched AI Studio…
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