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Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:

• 🤖 AlphaEvolve: Google's self-coding AI agent

• 🏎️ OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPT

• 👨‍💻 Windsurf unveils SWE-1 AI for coders

• 🤖 Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

🤖 AlphaEvolve: Google's self-coding AI agent

Google has unveiled AlphaEvolve, a cutting-edge AI coding agent powered by its Gemini models. This tool autonomously writes and optimizes code to tackle complex problems. Already, it’s accelerated AI model training, enhanced chip performance, and solved challenging math problems. On 50+ open math challenges, AlphaEvolve matched the best-known solutions 75% of the time and improved on them in 20%, leading to real breakthroughs. By automatically testing and refining code, tasks that once took weeks can now be completed in days, potentially revolutionizing tech discovery.

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🏎️ OpenAI brings its GPT-4.1 models to ChatGPT

OpenAI just rolled out GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini in ChatGPT. The new models bring major upgrades, including a massive 1 million token context window (up from 128K), better coding and instruction-following, and noticeable speed boosts than GPT-4o. GPT-4.1 is now available for Plus, Pro, and Team users, while GPT-4.1 mini is free for all. OpenAI also removed GPT-4.0 mini and launched a Safety Evaluations Hub for more transparency.

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👨‍💻 Windsurf unveils SWE-1 AI for coders

Windsurf, an AI coding platform, has just released SWE-1, its first in-house family of AI models built to support the full software engineering workflow (not just code generation). The SWE-1 lineup includes three models: the full-size SWE-1 (for paid users), SWE-1-lite (free for all), and SWE-1-mini.

Benchmarks show SWE-1 beats all non-frontier and open-source models, just trailing Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Unlike typical code AI, SWE-1 is trained to work across editors, terminals, and browsers, using a “flow awareness” system to better sync with developers. This launch marks Windsurf’s shift from using third-party models to its own and comes shortly after rumors of a $3B OpenAI acquisition, hinting there might be more going on behind the scenes.

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📊 Poe’s report shows AI favorites are changing fast

AI platform Poe just released its Spring 2025 Model Usage Trends report, showing how fast user preferences are shifting across AI tools.

• Within weeks of launching, GPT-4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro took 10% and 5% of all message activity, while Claude’s usage dropped by 10%.

• Reasoning model usage jumped from 2% to 10%, led by Gemini 2.5 Pro. In image generation, GPT-image-1 grabbed 17% share, challenging established names like FLUX and Imagen3.

• In video, China’s Kling model surged to ~30%, and in audio, ElevenLabs dominated with 80% usage.

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🌐 ChatGPT is the new internet gateway

ChatGPT has surged from the 15th to the 5th most visited website globally, while giants like Wikipedia are losing traffic. More users now turn directly to ChatGPT for instant answers, signaling a shift away from traditional browsing. It offers a streamlined experience free from ads and clickbait, though some worry it may eventually face similar challenges as it grows.

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🏗️ Microsoft's CEO on how AI will remake every company

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI is becoming increasingly accessible, fueling widespread adoption. The company is developing its own AI architectures to stay ahead and anticipates its AI investments will generate trillions in economic value. Nadella emphasizes that AI will transform every company including Microsoft itself.

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🧠 Sam Altman unveils how young people use AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that younger generations are using AI far beyond simple searches, they treat it like a life operating system. In a recent talk, he explained that people in their 20s and 30s use AI as a digital advisor, memorizing complex prompts, linking multiple data sources, and consulting AI before making life decisions. Altman compared this to how young users quickly adapted to smartphones, showing AI is becoming an essential, personalized life assistant.

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🔮 OpenAI teases its next big release

OpenAI stirred up social media with a cryptic teaser about a new AI tool for developers. CEO Sam Altman launched the teaser campaign, calling it "another low-key research preview" and hinted it might get a better name than ChatGPT in case it takes off. Fans are eagerly speculating about what this next-level AI innovation could be.

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🎨 Viral startup Manus AI unveils new image gen capabilities

Viral startup Manus AI just unveiled powerful new image generation features. Unlike basic AI that simply follows text prompts, Manus understands your intent, plans workflows, searches the web, and combines multiple specialized tools to create ready-to-use visuals for marketing, product design, and more. This marks a big step toward smarter, more intuitive AI-generated content that truly supports creative workflows.

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🧬 Could AI double human lifespan by 2030?

In 1824, Americans lived just over 40 years on average, but today that’s nearly doubled thanks to medicine and public health. Now, AI experts like Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei predict AI could help humans live to 150 within five to ten years by discovering new life-extending treatments faster. However, many scientists remain skeptical, saying there’s no solid evidence AI can stop aging yet, though AI is already aiding drug discovery and health research.

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