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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash introduces ‘thinking budgets’ that cut AI costs by 600% when turned down

April 18, 2025
Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Flash, a major upgrade to its AI lineup that gives businesses and developers unprecedented control over how much “thinking” their AI performs. The new model, released today in preview through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, represents a strategic effort to deliver improved reasoning capabilities while maintaining competitive pricing in the increasingly crowded AI…
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Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable - and important - AI interview of the year

April 16, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in Vancouver last week. “I have never seen growth in any company, one that I’ve been involved with or not, like this,” Sam Altman told TED head Chris Anderson during their on-stage…
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Now it’s TikTok parent ByteDance’s turn for a reasoning AI: enter Seed-Thinking-v1.5!

April 14, 2025
It started with the announcement of OpenAI’s o1 model in Sept. 2024, but really took off with the DeepSeek R1 release in Jan. 2025. Now, it seems that most major AI model providers and trainers are in a new race to deliver better, faster, and cheaper “reasoning” AI language models — that is, ones that maybe take a little longer to respond to a human user, but ideally do so with better…
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Writer unveils ‘AI HQ’ platform, betting on agents to transform enterprise work

April 11, 2025
In a Nutshell Writer, an Enterprise AI company, launched AI HQ to enable businesses to bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world results. The platform features autonomous agents for complex workflows, self-evolving models, and a $1.9 billion valuation with unique enterprise-focused models. Writer aims to transform industries by offering innovation partnerships in AI-native enterprise…
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