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April 10, 2025
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Happy Thursday, brainiacs đź§
Google dropped an AI bomb at Cloud Next 2025, and the rest of the tech world scrambled to keep up. From new agentic coding platforms to Samsung’s home robot sidekick, it’s been a wild 24 hours in AI land. Let’s get into it 👇
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🤖 Google Goes Full Throttle at Cloud Next
Agentic IDEs, next-gen chips, and a buffet of model upgrades—Google isn't just playing catch-up anymore.
At Google Cloud Next 2025, the tech titan unveiled a monster lineup of AI announcements that touched every corner of its ecosystem.
Here’s what’s new:
Project IDX + Firebase Studio = Agentic App Dev: Google’s combining platforms to challenge the likes of Cursor and Replit with an intelligent development environment built for AI workflows.
Ironwood AI Chips: Google's new silicon beast brings massive performance gains and energy efficiency, potentially leapfrogging current industry standards.
Gemini 2.5 Flash: A streamlined version of its flagship model—faster, cheaper, and customizable based on reasoning complexity (read: better for your wallet).
Model Upgrades:
Veo 2: Edit videos like a pro + camera control.
Lyria: Converts text to music.
Imagen 3: Enhanced image generation & editing.
Why it matters:
This wasn't just a product update—it was a full-scale flex. With advancements in chips, models, and developer tools, Google is stacking its AI war chest to rival OpenAI, Microsoft, and everyone else in the arena.
🤝 Agent2Agent: The Protocol for Peace (and Power)
AI agents are getting a universal translator—and it might just change the game.
Google also unveiled Agent2Agent (A2A), an open protocol that allows AI agents from different companies and frameworks to talk, collaborate, and share tasks.
Key features:
Lets agents discover capabilities and coordinate tasks—even without shared memory or context.
Complements Anthropic’s MCP protocol (think: MCP = tools, A2A = teamwork).
Supported by a massive list of 50+ tech firms including Salesforce, SAP, PayPal, Atlassian, Deloitte, and McKinsey.
Why it matters:
A2A could become the backbone of agent collaboration. Think: hiring workflows done entirely by a team of AI agents from different companies—with zero human input. It’s interoperability meets autonomy.
🏠Ballie Is Back… and Smarter Than Ever
Samsung + Google = Your new AI-powered home buddy.
Say hello (again) to Ballie, Samsung’s long-teased home robot that’s finally making its debut—with Google’s Gemini AI under the hood.
What it does:
Rolls around your house on its own.
Projects videos, controls smart devices, responds to voice commands.
Takes in audio, visual, and voice inputs using multimodal AI.
Launching this summer in the U.S. and South Korea.
Why it matters:
Samsung is betting big on home robotics, and Ballie could be the bridge between smart homes and fully autonomous assistants. With Gemini inside, this isn't just a robot—it’s an intelligent roommate.
🗞️ Other News You Should Know
⚡ Anthropic launched Claude Max – New premium tier at $100/mo and $200/mo offers higher rate limits + early feature access.
🇺🇸 NVIDIA gets a China reprieve – U.S. halts planned restrictions on H20 chips after CEO Jensen Huang promises new American investments.
🧠Moonshot AI drops Kimi-VL – A 3B-parameter vision-language model that rivals models 10x bigger in reasoning.
🧬 UCL's MindGlide AI – Can scan MS patient brains in seconds, outperforming legacy tools by up to 60% in tracking disease progression.
🎠NO FAKES Act returns – Backed by YouTube, OpenAI, IBM and more to combat AI deepfakes in media and entertainment.
🚀 OpenAI’s Pioneers Program – Wants to co-build custom AI systems with startups solving real-world problems.
🇪🇺 EU’s AI Continent Action Plan – €200B earmarked to triple Europe’s data center capacity and build 13 new AI “factories.”
đź’» Mastery tools of the day
Nova Sonic - Amazon’s new speech-to-speech AI voice model
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Gemini Deep Research - Now available with 2.5 Pro Experimental
Airtable Assistant - They peg it as a app builder, data analyst, and web researcher all within Airtable
đź’ˇWhat else are we reading and seeing?
👋 That’s a Wrap!
Whether you're building agents, coding with Gemini, or just waiting for Ballie to vacuum your kitchen, it’s clear: the AI world isn’t slowing down anytime soon.
Thanks for reading Not So Artificial!
Catch you tomorrow for another dive into the wild world of AI đź’Ą
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