AI news
May 2025
LlamaCon announcements
Meta just made a series of AI announcements at its first LlamaCon developers event, including a standalone app for its Meta AI assistant with upgraded personalization, a new Llama API preview, and AI security tools.
Run LLMs on-device in React Native
`react-native-ai` is an experimental On-device LLM execution in React Native with Vercel AI SDK compatibility.
Bun's llms.txt File for LLM Integration
Bun includes a file (llms-full.txt) containing its documentation in a format suitable for training or querying Large Language Models (LLMs), facilitating AI-assisted development with Bun.
April 2025
Baidu Launches Low-Cost ERNIE Turbo AI Models
Baidu introduced ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and ERNIE X1 Turbo models, offering upgraded multimodality, faster responses, and strong reasoning at significantly lower costs compared to competitors like GPT-4.5 and DeepSeek R1, aiming to challenge the economics of frontier AI.
xAI Updates Grok with Algorithm, Vision, and Memory Features
Elon Musk's xAI is enhancing its Grok chatbot with significant updates, including a much-improved algorithm, a new Vision feature allowing interaction via camera, and a memory recall capability, aiming to improve its performance and multimodal interaction.
Alibaba Launches Qwen3 Open-Source AI Models
Alibaba released Qwen3, a family of eight open-weight language models under Apache 2.0 license, with the flagship Qwen3-235B model rivaling top models like OpenAI's o1 and Grok-3 on benchmarks. The models support 119 languages and show strong performance in coding and tool use.
Firefly's Image Model 4
The latest release of Firefly unifies AI-powered tools for image, video, audio, and vector generation into a single, cohesive platform and introduces many new capabilities.
Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemma 3 QAT
Google introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash, a fast, cost-efficient model with controllable reasoning, and Gemma 3 QAT, which enables powerful 27B models to run on consumer GPUs, expanding accessibility for developers building AI applications.
Microsoft Predicts Rise of Hybrid Human-AI Teams
Microsoft's Work Trend Index highlights the emergence of "Frontier Firms" built around hybrid teams of humans and AI agents, predicting a shift in workplace structure and the integration of AI agents into core strategies and workflows.
OpenAI Releases GPT-image-1 API
OpenAI has made its advanced image generation model, GPT-image-1 (which powers ChatGPT's image feature), available via API for developers, enabling integration into third-party applications and creative workflows.