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If this week had a theme, it's this: smarter AI, faster tools, and a growing obsession with reasoning power. From Google's customizable Gemini 2.5 Flash to Profluent’s biological breakthroughs, and Meta’s push to give AI real-world perception — it’s clear the arms race isn’t just about chatting anymore. It’s about building agents that think, see, and solve like never before.

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📊 Gemini’s Flashy Comeback

Google Drops Gemini 2.5 Flash With a “Thinking Budget”
Because even AI needs to mind its wallet.

Google just launched Gemini 2.5 Flash, a lightweight but sharp new model that rivals o4-mini and beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet on STEM and reasoning tests — all while letting users customize how much "brain power" it uses per task.

The details:

• 🚀 Huge reasoning gains vs. 2.0 Flash, with control over how much “thinking” the model does — toggle it like a power-up.

• 📊 Competitive on visual and STEM benchmarks, yet cheaper and faster than many rivals.

• 🧠 Developers can assign a “thinking budget” of up to 24K tokens, letting them fine-tune performance vs. cost on the fly.

• 🛠️ Available via API (Google AI Studio & Vertex AI) and in preview on the Gemini app.

Why it matters: OpenAI may have hogged the spotlight, but Google’s not slowing down. The budgeted reasoning concept is a clever twist — letting developers reserve brainy responses for complex tasks, while keeping it cheap for simpler ones. Smart, right?

🧬 Proteins Just Got Pro-Level

Profluent Finds the First AI Scaling Law in Biology
Making protein design feel less like science fiction, more like engineering.

Biotech startup Profluent launched ProGen3, a suite of models that can design complex proteins from scratch — and, for the first time ever, proved that AI scaling laws apply to biology.

The details:

• 🧠 The flagship 46B model trained on 3.4B protein sequences, delivering major upgrades in protein design.

• 💉 Designed new antibodies that perform like FDA-approved drugs — but with different structures to avoid patent issues.

• ✂️ Created gene-editing proteins smaller than CRISPR-Cas9, paving the way for new delivery methods.

• 🤝 Making 20 “OpenAntibodies” available via royalty-free or upfront licensing.

Why it matters: Profluent is flipping biotech on its head. Instead of years in a lab, we’re entering an era where protein design becomes programmable. Drug discovery just got its ChatGPT moment — and it’s only getting started.

🔍 Meta Makes a Move on Perception

Meta’s FAIR Drops 5 Projects to Train Smarter, More Collaborative AI
Because what good is AI if it can’t ID a camouflaged jaguar?

Meta’s AI research division, FAIR, just released a stack of new open-source tools focused on visual perception, 3D understanding, and collaborative reasoning.

The details:

• 👀 Perception Encoder hit SOTA scores in visual tasks, like recognizing hidden objects and tracking motion.

• 🎥 Rolled out Meta PLM and PLM-VideoBench, a new benchmark for video understanding.

• 🧱 Locate 3D helps AIs understand physical objects better, backed by 130K spatial language annotations.

• 🧠 Collaborative Reasoner trains AI to think together — improving performance by up to 30% when working in teams.

Why it matters: FAIR is laying the foundation for a world where AIs see, reason, and collaborate like humans. It’s not just about smarter bots — it’s about building agents that can interact with reality in real-time. This is the groundwork for your future robot co-worker.

🗞️ Other News

⚙️ OpenAI’s o3 scored a 136 on the Mensa Norway IQ test — the highest recorded yet, even beating Gemini 2.5 Pro.
🏢 Chatbot Arena, UC Berkeley’s model testing platform, is spinning out as a standalone company called LMArena.
📱 Perplexity is partnering with Motorola and in talks with Samsung to become the default AI assistant on mobile devices.
🧠 xAI’s Grok gets memory features and a new “Workspaces” tab to organize your files and chats.
🖼️ Alibaba launched Wan 2.1-FLF2V-14B, allowing high-quality image generation using just first and last frames.
🎶 Deezer says 20,000+ AI-generated songs are uploaded daily — it’s now using AI to filter out the musical noise.
💼 OpenAI reportedly considered acquiring Anysphere, creator of Cursor, before its current talks with coding platform Windsurf.

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💡What else are we reading and seeing?

• 2025 generative AI in professional services report

• A practical guide to building agents

• Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Monopoly

• Inside Meta's secret experiments that improve its AI models

• OpenAI launches Flex processing for cheaper, slower AI tasks

• Co-Intelligence - using AI to think better, create more and live smarter

• Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield

💡 That’s a Wrap

Big brains, smart proteins, and perceptive bots — the future’s cooking 🔥. Whether you're building apps, designing drugs, or just trying to keep up with the AI arms race, this week was anything but artificial.

Catch you on Next Week
— Not So Artificial

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