Google’s Flash Considering powerhouse

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. While everyone seems to be watching OpenAI’s next move, Google DeepMind just put out a reasoning powerhouse of its own.

With an enormous 1M context window and breakthrough math, science, and reasoning capabilities, the bar for model releases continues to trend in a single direction — up and to the suitable.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Google DeepMind debuts Gemini 2.0 Flash Considering

• Musk, Altman clash over $500B Stargate project

• Improve your content strategy with real-time AI evaluation

• ByteDance releases recent model, reasoning agent

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

GOOGLE DEEPMIND

🚀 Google DeepMind debuts Gemini 2.0 Flash Considering 

The Rundown: Google DeepMind just unveiled Gemini 2.0 Flash Considering, a brand new free experimental AI model that sets recent highs in mathematic, scientific reasoning, and multimodal benchmarks and has also moved into the No.1 spot on LM Arena’s leaderboard.

The main points:

• The model achieved a 73.3% on AIME (math) and 74.2% on GPQA Diamond (science) benchmarks, showing dramatic improvements over previous versions.

• A 1M token context window allows for 5x more text processing than OpenAI’s current models, enabling the evaluation of multiple research papers concurrently.

• The system also includes built-in code execution and explicitly shows its reasoning process — with more reliable outputs and fewer contradictions.

• The model is free during beta testing with usage limits, in comparison with OpenAI’s $200/m subscription for access to its top reasoning model.

Why it matters: Google continues to cook — with the brand new Flash Considering model beating out its own previous experimental release for the highest spot on the LLM leaderboard. Plus, with reasoning capabilities and an enormous 1M token context window, users are about to experience a powerhouse of intelligence and capabilities free of charge.

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ELON MUSK

🥊 Musk, Altman clash over $500B Stargate project

The Rundown: Elon Musk just publicly challenged the funding for OpenAI’s recently announced $500B Stargate Project in a reply on X, sparking a heated exchange with CEO Sam Altman on the social media platform.

The main points:

• OpenAI announced Stargate on Tuesday, with plans to construct extensive AI infrastructure across the U.S. with funding from Oracle, Softbank, and others.

• Musk claimed on X that SoftBank has “well under $10B secured,” questioning the project’s financial foundation despite close ties to the Trump administration.

• Altman refuted the claims and invited Musk to the project’s first construct site, also saying that Musk is “essentially the most inspiring entrepreneur of our time.”

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly reinforced the project’s backing in an interview on CNBC, confirming the corporate’s $80B commitment.

Why it matters: Following the White House Stargate reveal, many wondered what Musk’s response can be given his ascension into Trump’s orbit and OpenAI vendetta. We quickly have a solution — and the fight now moves into the political realm, with Elon’s role as each competitor and government advisor complicating issues much more.

AI TRAINING

🎥 Improve your content strategy with real-time AI evaluation

The Rundown: Gemini’s Real-Time Streaming feature lets you immediately analyze and improve your content by sharing your screen and getting immediate feedback and actionable suggestions.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit Google’s AI Studio website and choose the “Share screen” feature.

2. Share your screen showing your content (YouTube channel or Instagram profile) and use prompts to research content strategy, design, and performance.

3. Ask for advanced optimization suggestions for immediate implementation.

Pro tip: Run real-time evaluation during content planning sessions to iterate quickly. We’ve got also written detailed prompts that you could copy and paste from here.

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BYTEDANCE

🚀 ByteDance releases recent model, reasoning agent

The Rundown: ByteDance just released Doubao 1.5 Pro, a resource-efficient multimodal AI model that achieves high performance while using significantly fewer resources than competitors, and a brand new open-source reasoning agent model.

The main points:

• The brand new model beats out rivals like GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Deepseek V3 on a series of data, coding, reasoning, and Chinese benchmarks.

• Doubao’s pricing can be significantly below o1 and the brand new DeepSeek-R1, while claiming to make use of far fewer compute resources than other models.

• The corporate also open-sourced veRL, the reinforcement learning library used to realize o1-level reasoning capabilities.

• ByteDance also released UI-TARS, an open-source GUI AI agent model that may reason and perform computer interactions based on screenshots for input.

Why it matters: ByteDance can have had a drama-filled few months with the TikTok ban, nevertheless it hasn’t slowed down the Chinese giant’s AI research. With DeepSeek and ByteDance dropping OpenAI-level competitors, it looks like China is having no issues maintaining within the AI race despite chip restrictions geared toward slowing them down.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🔎 Sonar – Perplexity’s recent API for incorporating grounded, real-time search to third-party applications

• 🧊 Hunyuan 3D 2.0 – Tencent’s recent open-source AI system for creating and animating high-quality 3D assets

• ❤️ Lovable + Builder.io – Turn Figma designs into full-stack apps with AI

• 📝 MeetMinutes – Transform your pre-and-post meeting workflows with AI note-taking

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📰 All the pieces else in AI today

OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil said during a presentation at Davos that the corporate is already training the successor to its upcoming o3 reasoning model, projecting ‘one other big jump in capabilities’ despite the continuing compression of release cycles.

Microsoft modified its exclusive cloud agreement with OpenAI, retaining first-refusal rights for computing capability while allowing the AI company to pursue additional infrastructure partnerships.

Samsung unveiled its recent Galaxy S25 series phones at its ‘Unpacked’ event, featuring recent AI upgrades like enhanced Gemini integrations, multimodal agent capabilities, and context-aware natural language interactions.

Google is reportedly investing an extra $1B+ into Anthropic, bringing its position to over $3B — with a separate funding deal also within the works that is about to spice up the corporate’s valuation to around $60B.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in an interview with CNBC that the rift between Microsoft and OpenAI ‘cracked’ after Mustafa Suleyman was hired as CEO of Microsoft AI, and tensions rose between him and Sam Altman.

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