Google released an early preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition, delivering:

—Enhanced performance for frontend and UI dev, code editing, and agentic workflows
—Top score on LM Arena and WebDev Arena, beating Claude 3.7 Sonnet
—Video understanding features

HeyGen dropped Avatar IV, an AI for expressive animations

With one photo and voice script, its audio to expression engine captures tone, rhythm, and emotion to generate facial motion

Also supports different subjects, camera shots, and formats

Lighttricks released LTXV-13B, an open-source AI for video generation

—Multiscale rendering for creating smoother content, 30x faster
—Can run on consumer GPUs
—Includes camera motion control, keyframe editing, and multi-shot sequencing

AI coding platform Windsurf launched its Wave 8 update, focusing on enterprise and teams with:

—GitHub app to review PRs and edit titles
—Docs-connected context awareness engine
—Cascade conversation sharing
—Team deploys
—Refreshed analytics

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt-backed FutureHouse released Finch, an AI agent for discovery in biology

Currently in beta, Finch can do open-ended and directed data analysis

It joins FutureHouse's four previously announced 'superintelligent' AI agents

Ace Studio dropped ACE-Step v1-3.5B, an ultra-fast, open-source music generation model

It can generate 4 minutes of music in 20s (15× faster than LLMs) with support for several genres and structure control

AI design startup Recraft added Advanced Style Controls to its platform

The offering allows users to mix the look and feel of ready-to-use styles with their own images

It saves the hassle of reworking images time and again to ensure style consistency

Unitree partnered with SF-based Reborn to co-develop cutting-edge AI for its humanoids

The Chinese co will tap Reborn's Roboverse simulator, motion datasets, and developer tools to make its humanoids smarter, more adaptable, and capable of complex tasks

OpenAI just dropped a GitHub connector for ChatGPT’s Deep Research

Now you can plug into GitHub repos to search code, scan PRs, and auto-generate detailed, citation-backed reports — all inside ChatGPT.

Dev workflows just got smarter

Tencent released HunyuanCustom, an open-source AI system for video generation — powered by HunyuanVideo-13B

It generates customized video from text, images, audio, and video inputs with consistent subjects

Outperforms open-source rivals!

Microsoft dropped Pages, a new Copilot feature that allows users to collaborate with the AI assistant on answers

It works pretty much like ChatGPT Canvas, but doesn't seem to have coding capabilities

Meta AI launched Locate 3D, an AI for 3D object localization

Particularly useful in robotics, it can help humanoids and other systems understand and interact more naturally with their surroundings

Model, data, and code are all available on HF

Ahead of I/O 2025, Google announced it's taking Gemini to more Android-powered devices and platforms

It will first launch on Wear OS smartwatches, followed by Google TV-powered televisions, Android Auto cars, and the upcoming Android XR headset

TikTok dropped AI Alive, a feature that converts static photos into short-form videos

The feature works directly on the TikTok stories platform, allowing users to express their creativity right where they are

Notion released AI for Work, a suite of work-centered AI features, including:

— AI Meeting Notes
— Enterprise Search to find answers across tools
— Research Mode to draft docs
— Access to models, including GPT-4.1 & Claude 3.7

Perplexity's agentic browser, Comet, will launch in 3-5 weeks

CEO Aravind Srinivas said the browser will have native virtual meeting recording, transcription, and searches

However, it won't be a part of the first release, but a follow-up update

Tesla released another clip of Optimus, this time showing even more complex dance moves than the last time

CEO Elon Musk also shared that multiple Optimus robots walk around their office 24/7 with "no one watching, charging themselves as needed"

Alibaba's Qwen team announced that Deep Research on Qwen Chat (similar to that of ChatGPT) is now available for everyone

It puts together a detailed report on complex subjects, complete with citations.

Google launched the AI Futures Fund

The initiative gives AI startups early access to the company's advanced models (Gemini, Veo, Imagen), funding, and technical expertise to boost growth

Early partners include companies like Replit, Fal, and Synthesia

Meta AI debuted two new products:

—A framework to improve collaborative reasoning in LLMs and enable social agents

—An 8B param Dynamic Byte Latent Transformer that serves as an efficient and reliable alternative to traditional tokenization methods