Howdy again. It’s Barsee, and welcome back to AI Valley.

Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:

• 🏛️ OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company

• 📚 The push for mandatory AI education by Tech Giants

• 👓 ByteDance is developing AI Smart Glasses

• 🤖 Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

🏛️ OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company

OpenAI is keeping its nonprofit in control as it restructures its business arm into a public benefit corporation (PBC). This reverses a December 2024 plan where the PBC would eventually take over operations. Now, the nonprofit will retain both control and a major stake, while hiring a team to pursue charitable initiatives. The change follows backlash from Elon Musk, Encode, and others. Microsoft, its biggest investor, is reportedly still not fully on board.

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💰 OpenAI buys Windsurf for $3bn

OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for around $3 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal puts OpenAI in direct competition with coding tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Replit. Windsurf had recently sought funding at the same valuation, after being valued at $1.25 billion last year. The move follows OpenAI’s push to improve coding performance with its o3 and o4-mini models. Meanwhile, Apple and Anthropic are building their own internal AI coding tool, based on Claude Sonnet.

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🚖 Uber and WeRide set their robotaxi sights on 15 more cities

Uber and WeRide plan to expand their robotaxi partnership to 15 more cities over the next five years, focusing on markets outside China and the U.S., including parts of Europe. The move follows their launch in Abu Dhabi, where WeRide provides the autonomous tech and Uber handles the app and routing. This mirrors Uber’s setup with Waymo, now active in Austin and soon in Atlanta. Dubai is next on the expansion list.

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📱 Google just leaked Android’s new design language

Google accidentally leaked its next major Android redesign, Material 3 Expressive, in a now-deleted blog post spotted by 9to5Google. The update focuses on usability through color, shape, and motion, and is based on 46 rounds of testing with over 18,000 users. Google claims it helps people find UI elements up to 4x faster and even levels performance across age groups. Expect more details at Google I/O this month.

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🤖 California startup announces breakthrough in general-purpose robotics with π0.5 AI

A California startup has unveiled π0.5 AI, a new vision-language-action model that brings us closer to general-purpose home robots. Trained on real-world home data, it can follow natural commands to clean rooms, do dishes, and organize clutter without needing to see the space beforehand. Early tests in San Francisco homes showed strong results. It’s not mainstream yet, but it’s a major leap toward robots that do your chores.

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📚 The push for mandatory AI education by Tech Giants

Over 250 tech leaders, including CEOs from Microsoft, Adobe, Airbnb, and Zoom, have signed an open letter urging U.S. states to make AI and computer science mandatory in high schools. They argue it's key to staying competitive with countries like China and preparing students to be AI creators. Backed by wage-boosting research and a new White House task force, the push aims to make AI a core part of U.S. education.

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👓 ByteDance is developing AI Smart Glasses

ByteDance is developing AI-powered smart glasses, its most serious consumer hardware push yet. The wearable aims to offer real-time AI features like voice commands, object recognition, and translation, powered by its in-house model Doubao. Still in early prototyping, the glasses may combine high-res video, strong battery life, and privacy-first design. As Meta and Amazon bet on AI wearables, ByteDance is looking to move beyond TikTok and into the post-smartphone future.

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🖥️ Google tests Computer Use tools and Cloud Run hosting in AI Studio

Google may be prepping a major upgrade to AI Studio. A now-removed code reference hinted at a “Computer Use” feature. An industry shorthand for agents that can control your screen, mouse, and apps. The same code suggests developers could soon deploy Gemma 3 models directly to Cloud Run from the browser. If released, this would give AI Studio both local control and remote serverless inference, making it a full-stack hub for building and running AI agents.

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🔍 Reddit adds an AI Search Bar

Reddit is making it easier to use its platform as a search engine. Its AI-powered Reddit Answers feature was previously hidden in a separate tab, it’s now being added to the main search bar. Instead of digging through threads, users get curated summaries with direct links and helpful tips from real posts. CEO Steve Huffman says the goal is to streamline search and surface real opinions from real people, not generic answers.

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TRENDING TOOLS

• Lambda Inference API - Run DeepSeek models starting at $0.34 per 1M input tokens, $0.88 per 1M output tokens. *

• Suno 4.5 - Next-gen AI music generation model.

• Chai by Langbase - Vibe code any AI agent. Chai turns prompts into prod-ready agents.

• DeepWiki by Cognition - Deep Research for GitHub – powered by Devin.

• Simular for macOS - macOS-native agent, performing digital actions
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THINK PIECES / BRAIN BOOST

• Curated collection of system prompts for top AI tools. Perfect for AI agent builders and prompt engineers. Incuding: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Manus, Claude-Code, Loveable, v0, Grok, same new, windsurf, notion, and MetaAI.

• The 9 best vibe coding tools developers are using to improve their workflows.

• How to use Gradio to build an MCP Server in 5 lines of Python.

• AI pathways to AGI: 7 leading theories experts are betting on.

• An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about AI and the evolution of social media.

• Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding - by Anthropic.

• As an experienced LLM user, I actually don't use Generative LLMs often.

VALLEY GEMS

THAT’S ALL FOR TODAY

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