Welcome to Get The Gist, where every weekday we share an easy-to-read summary of the latest and greatest developments in AI—news, innovations, and trends—all delivered in under 3 minutes! ⏱

In today’s edition:

• Google is Rolling Out Gemini 2.5 Flash

• Meta Pushes AI Closer to Human-Like Perception

• Grok Gets Smarter with Memory Update

• Trump Admin Weighing to Ban DeepSeek

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

Google

Google is Rolling Out Gemini 2.5 Flash

The Gist: Google is previewing Gemini 2.5 Flash, a faster AI model that lets developers fine-tune how much reasoning it uses based on the task. It offers more control over cost, speed, and accuracy.

Key Details:

• Developers can set a “thinking budget” to control how deeply the model reasons.

• The model supports text, image, video, and audio inputs with text output.

• It features a 1 million-token context window and up to 64K-token responses.

• Now available in Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini app.

Meta

Meta Pushes AI Closer to Human-Like Perception

The Gist: Meta has released a wave of new tools and models that improve how AI understands the world through sight, language, and collaboration. It's all part of building smarter, more capable systems.

Key Details:

• The new Perception Encoder leads in visual tasks like image recognition and video analysis.

• A vision-language model, PLM, is trained on over 2.5 million video and caption samples.

• Meta Locate 3D helps AI pinpoint objects in 3D space based on natural language.

• Collaborative Reasoner teaches AI to solve problems through teamwork and conversation.

xAI

Grok Gets Smarter with Memory Update

The Gist: xAI’s Grok chatbot now remembers past chats, letting it offer more personal and context-aware responses over time.

Key Details:

• Users can see, edit, or delete what the chatbot remembers.

• The feature is in beta on Grok.com and the mobile apps, but not available in the EU or UK.

• Grok learns user preferences to improve future interactions.

• Similar updates were recently added to ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

Quick Gist

Meta leads the AR glasses market with its Ray-Ban Meta glasses and the upcoming Hypernova model, while Apple and Google race to develop smart glasses of their own, reflecting both rising competition and technical hurdles in the space (Read More).

Google upgraded its Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model with a new "thinking budget" feature, allowing developers to fine-tune the model’s reasoning complexity to improve performance efficiency (Read More).

Google Cloud has integrated NVIDIA's Blackwell platform with confidential computing to enhance secure and sovereign AI processing across cloud and hybrid environments (Read More).

Microsoft unveiled BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a lightweight 2-billion parameter AI model optimized for CPUs and released under an open MIT license to promote broader AI accessibility (Read More).

Google is giving every U.S. college student free access to Gemini Advanced for one year in a major push to grow its user base to 500 million by 2025 (Read More).

The Trump administration is weighing a national ban on Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, citing security concerns related to military ties and Nvidia chip acquisitions (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!