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• ⚡️Google’s New Hybrid Reasoning Model?!

• 🎙️Has OpenAI Achieved AGI? Everyone’s Divided.

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• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

GOOGLE

⚡️Google’s New Hybrid Reasoning Model?!

Google officially launched “Gemini 2.5 Flash,” a small multimodal AI model with reasoning capabilities across text, images, audio, video, and code.

Key Details:

• It’s equipped with a hybrid reasoning engine that allows it to mimic a human’s decision-making capabilities and problem-solving capacity.

• It leverages Chain-of-Thought (CoT) techniques to break down complex problems into manageable sub-problems. Then, it solves each manageable sub-problem and combines each solution into a complete answer.

• “Gemini 2.5 Flash” also has a Thinking Budget feature, which enables developers to control the balance between cost, speed, and output quality.

Why It’s Important:

• “Gemini 2.5 Flash” highlights the computational costs of reasoning engines. For instance, developers pay $0.60 per million Tokens with thinking turned off and $3.50 per million Tokens with thinking turned on. Tokens are units of text that represent words, characters, and punctuation.

• That’s nearly a sixfold price increase between unreasoned outputs and reasoned outputs, where “Gemini 2.5 Flash” evaluates multiple potential methods to solve complex problems.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

OPENAI

🎙️Has OpenAI Achieved AGI? Everyone’s Divided.

OpenAI recently unveiled “OpenAI o3” with Agentic capabilities, fueling debates on whether we’ve reached AGI.

Key Details:

• “OpenAI o3” is a Large Reasoning Model (LRM) designed to imitate a human’s thought process, with the ability to analyze situations and deduce logical outcomes to generate informed decisions.

• In other words, LRMs enable conversational chatbots like ChatGPT to plan, reflect, and reason through inputs before generating outputs.

• “OpenAI o3” can also Agentically use, combine, and coordinate every feature within ChatGPT, including Operator and Deep Research.

• One of the most impressive achievements is “OpenAI o3’s” performance on the ARC-AGI benchmark, which evaluates an advanced AI model’s ability to learn and generalize new skills.

• “OpenAI o3” achieved 88% accuracy on the ARC-AGI benchmark, becoming the first advanced AI model to surpass the 85% accuracy threshold required to outperform humans.

• It also correctly solved 29 out of 35 of the visual patterns puzzles within 25 minutes on the Mensa Norway IQ Test, achieving an IQ of 132.

• These achievements have fueled debates on whether “OpenAI o3” has reached Artificial General Intelligence (AGI): when machines match or exceed the cognitive abilities of humans.

Why It’s Important:

• “It wipes the floor with humans,” stated American Economist Tyler Cowen. “It’s at or near genius level,” added Biomedical Scientist Derya Unutmaz.

• But not everyone’s onboard, showcasing instances of “OpenAI o3” unable to match names with colors or solve basic trick questions.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Perplexity AI struck a deal with Motorola to set their Answer Engine as the default search option for all the upcoming smartphones.

xAI’s Grok rolled out a new memory feature that enables it to recall your past conversations and generate personalized responses tailored to you.

The world’s first baby to be conceived by In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) through a remotely operated AI-enabled machine was born on April 14th, 2025.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hinted that OpenAI has lost “tens of millions of dollars” in electricity costs from people saying please and thank you to their advanced AI models.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Deck raises a $12M Series A to connect businesses to any data source.

• Exaforce lands a $75M Series A to transform cloud security with AI Agents.

• hellocare.ai closes a $47M Growth Funding Round to accelerate AI-assisted virtual hospital care.

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