AI Native Foundation Weekly Newsletter: 23 May 2025

Google I/O 2025 unveiled major AI advances: 50x growth in token processing, 10%+ Search usage increase with AI Overviews, new Gemini 2.5 models leading industry benchmarks, AI Mode rollout, Veo 3 video generation, Android XR partnerships with Samsung, and enhanced developer tools. Key partnerships include Samsung for XR glasses and collaboration with eyewear brands like Warby Parker for mainstream AI adoption.

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, setting new coding standards with 72.5% on SWE-bench. Features include extended thinking mode for deeper reasoning, tool use capabilities, and improved memory. Available on Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud. Pricing: Opus 4 at $15/$75 per million tokens, Sonnet 4 at $3/$15. Claude Code now generally available with IDE integrations.

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Former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Sam Altman announce that ‘io’, the new company founded by Ive for the development of AI hardware, will merge with OpenAI. This move aims to deeply integrate Ive’s (and his creative collective LoveFrom’s) renowned design expertise with OpenAI’s leading-edge AI technology, to collaboratively develop a revolutionary family of AI hardware products, empowering users in new ways and delivering Ive’s signature ‘delight and wonder’ experience.

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Codex is a cloud-based AI agent that handles coding tasks like writing features, fixing bugs, and proposing pull requests in isolated environments preloaded with your repository. Powered by codex-1 (an OpenAI o3 version optimized for software engineering), it runs multiple tasks in parallel and verifiably reports its actions through citations and test outputs. Now available for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users.

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Microsoft is open-sourcing GitHub Copilot Chat extension under MIT license and integrating key AI components into VS Code core. This move reflects their belief that AI-powered coding should be transparent, community-driven, and secure. The shift comes as LLMs improve, common AI UX patterns emerge, and security concerns grow—addressing extension developer needs while enabling community contributions to shape the future of AI-assisted development.

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Microsoft unveils the ‘open agentic web’ where AI agents handle complex tasks autonomously. Key highlights: GitHub Copilot evolves into an async coding agent helping 15M developers, new Windows AI Foundry platform, Azure AI adds 1,900+ models including Grok 3, and Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning lets companies train custom agents. Real impact: Stanford Health speeds tumor board prep, law firms generate specialized docs, and Fortune 500 companies automate workflows—transforming development and business operations.

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G42, OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, SoftBank and Cisco are partnering to create Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt AI compute cluster within the new 5-gigawatt UAE-U.S. AI Campus in Abu Dhabi. As the largest AI infrastructure deployment outside the U.S., the facility will accelerate scientific discovery and drive innovation across healthcare, energy, finance, and transportation sectors. Powered by sustainable energy sources, the first 200-megawatt cluster is expected to launch in 2026.

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Kunlun Tech’s Skywork Super Agents revolutionizes work with AI-powered document, PPT, and spreadsheet creation that completes 8 hours of tasks in just 8 minutes. Ranking #1 on GAIA (surpassing OpenAI Deep Research), it delivers expert-level content with verifiable sources at 40% of OpenAI’s cost. The system includes specialized agents for web pages, podcasts, and multimedia content creation. Try it now without invitation at skywork.ai or tiangong.cn and experience the future of AI-powered productivity.

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