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Howdy again. It’s Barsee, and welcome back to AI Valley.
Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:
👨💻 Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro update makes the AI model even better at coding
🔍 AI is eating search
🤖 AI trends to watch: May 2025
🤖 Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources
Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…
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THROUGH THE VALLEY
👨💻 Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro update makes the AI model even better at coding
Google has quietly released early access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, ahead of its planned debut at I/O. The new version brings major upgrades for coding tasks like building web apps, editing code, and creating agent workflows. It now tops the WebDev Arena Leaderboard and scored 84.8% on the VideoMME benchmark, prompting Google to launch it early after strong developer feedback.
📊 GenAI Traffic Share Update – Trend Breakdown Over 6 Months
Source: Similarweb
ChatGPT holds strong at 80.1% traffic share, recovering from a recent dip. DeepSeek drops to 6.5%, while Google edges up to 5.6%. Grok falls to 2.6%, and Perplexity continues sliding at 1.5%. Over six months, ChatGPT has faced rising competition, but it remains dominant. Newcomers gained ground quickly but are now losing momentum, suggesting users still prefer the reliability and features of ChatGPT in the fast-moving GenAI space.
🔍 AI is eating search
Source: X
Safari searches just dropped for the first time in 22 years and Apple exec Eddy Cue says AI is to blame. During the DOJ’s antitrust trial against Google, Cue revealed Apple is exploring a Safari revamp to prioritize AI search tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. While Google remains the default (and pays Apple ~$19B for it), Cue admitted AI search is “so much better” that users may shift even if it means ditching traditional search entirely.
🦾 Amazon says new warehouse robot can ‘feel' items, but won't replace workers
Amazon has introduced Vulcan, a new warehouse robot that can “feel” items using a touch-sensitive gripper. It can handle 75% of the 1 million unique products at Amazon’s Spokane facility, lifting up to 8 pounds and running 20 hours a day. Amazon says Vulcan won’t replace workers instead, it’ll free them up for higher-skilled roles as automation expands.
✨ Figma introduces ‘vibe-coding' AI software design feature
Figma has announced Figma Make, a new AI-powered “vibe-coding” feature that automates website and app design. It’s built on Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet model and is currently in testing. When launched, it will cost $16 per user per month (billed annually) with no free tier. A release date hasn’t been confirmed yet.
🤖 Hugging Face releases a free Operator-like agentic AI tool
We're launching Computer Use in smolagents! 🥳
-> As vision models become more capable, they become able to power complex agentic workflows. Especially Qwen-VL models, that support built-in grounding, i.e. ability to locate any element in an image by its coordinates, thus to
— m_ric (@AymericRoucher)
3:58 PM • May 6, 2025
Hugging Face has released a free, web-based AI agent called Open Computer Agent, designed to mimic human computer use. It runs on a Linux virtual machine with apps like Firefox and can perform tasks like finding locations on Google Maps. It's slow, struggles with CAPTCHAs, and sometimes fails on complex requests but the point isn’t perfection. Hugging Face aims to show how capable and affordable open AI models are becoming for real-world agentic workflows.
TRENDING TOOLS
TRENDS TO WATCH: May 2025
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
OpenAI’s new video model (gpt-image-1) is live now on their API. Go wild with those prompts.
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash is in preview. It’s a “hybrid reasoning model” that lets you set a thinking budget (tokens, time, money).
OpenAI just dropped o3 and o4-mini. o3 is their smartest model yet; o4-mini trades size for speed and price.
OpenAI launched GPT-4.1 with mini and nano versions. It’s sharper at code and instructions, all with a 1M token window - API only for now. GPT-4 and 4.5 are on their way out.
DeepMind researchers are tackling prompt injection for real this time. Simon Willison says it might be the first actual breakthrough in two years.
ChatGPT can now pull from your entire chat history, not just a few memory bits. Big upgrade for continuity lovers.
DeepCoder just landed a 14B coding model that rivals o3-mini. Fully open-source with all training data and logs out in the wild.
Two new papers from Anthropic explore how AI agents think. Plus, a Google duo questions what “intelligence” even means.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is everywhere now. Want servers? Hit mcpservers.org, awesome-mcp-servers, Glama, or Cline’s Marketplace.
OpenAI’s adding watermarks to image generations (maybe thanks to that “Studio Ghibli” filter backlash). Paid users can still save clean shots.
OpenAI might release an open model? Yep. It’s not here yet, but they’re already asking what you think about it.
Gemini 2.5 is now rolling out to free users. Just pick Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental) in the app, though uploads and a few features are locked.
ROBOTICS
THINK PIECES / BRAIN BOOST
Anthropic CEO admits we have no idea how AI works.
Turning AI into a senior software developer. 1 hour masterclass.
This guy turned a ChatGPT prompt into a $20K growth consultant.
How to get AI to code for you in 20 minutes.
What’s the most useful thing you’ve done with AI so far? Reddit post.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gets first pay raise in a decade, now earns $49.8 million.
Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis?
ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why.
What Is Hugging Face and how to use It by Angel Poon.
VALLEY GEMS
Email from Fiverr CEO to his team about AI ($1b company):
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
12:41 AM • May 7, 2025
Start building your moat now it’s not too late
— The Boring Marketer (@boringmarketer)
1:02 PM • May 7, 2025
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