AI Supremacy, Space Odyssey & Tech Shakeups: The Biggest Tech News of July 2025
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 model that matches or outperforms top closed models on coding and reasoning benchmarks. Baidu open-sourced ERNIE 4.5, a model family up to 424 billion parameters, claiming it rivals top Western models at half the size. On July 2, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 achieved its 500th orbital