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 5 minutes! ⏱

In today’s edition:

• OpenAI & Softbank Launch $500B Stargate Project

• Updated Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Model Released

• Lorum Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet

• Microsoft Extends its Multi-Billion-Dollar Partnership with OpenAI

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

OpenAI

OpenAI & Softbank Launch $500B Stargate Project

The Gist: OpenAI and Softbank, along with major tech partners, unveiled "The Stargate Project" — a $500 billion investment to build AI-focused data centers, starting in Texas.

Key Details:

• Initial funders include OpenAI, Softbank, Oracle, and MGX, with tech partners like NVIDIA, Microsoft, Arm, and Oracle supporting the infrastructure.

• Microsoft renewed its partnership with OpenAI through 2030, with continued Azure commitments and first refusal rights for new capacity.

• The project aims to create cutting-edge AI infrastructure in the U.S., with the buildout beginning in Texas and expansion planned nationwide.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son credited the initiative's launch to U.S. leadership under Donald Trump.

Google Gemini

Updated Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Model Released

The Gist: Google has released an updated experimental version of its Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering enhanced reasoning, coding capabilities, and context handling for solving complex problems.

Key Details:

• Features a 1-million-token context window, allowing users to analyze extensive datasets or codebases with greater reasoning depth.

• Introduces native code execution, enabling the model to write and execute code for more precise and dynamic problem-solving.

• Demonstrates improved performance on benchmarks like AIME2024 (73.3%) and GPQA Diamond (74.2%) for math and science reasoning.

• The model, available in Google AI Studio and via API, reflects rapid advancements since its initial release in December 2024, with further iterations promised.

Perplexity

Perplexity Launches Sonar API with Real-Time AI Search

The Gist: Perplexity has introduced Sonar, an API that delivers real-time, citation-backed AI search, outperforming competitors like Google and OpenAI while offering disruptive pricing for enterprises.

Key Details:

• Sonar offers a base tier for $5 per 1,000 searches and a Pro version with advanced features for complex queries.

• Its real-time web connectivity provides fresh data, distinguishing it from competitors relying solely on static training sets.

• Sonar Pro achieves superior performance on accuracy benchmarks like SimpleQA, scoring 85.8, ahead of GPT-4o and Claude.

• Early adopters, including Zoom, use Sonar for seamless integration of live search during meetings, transforming enterprise workflows.

Quick Gist

Microsoft extends its multi-billion-dollar AI partnership with OpenAI until 2030, solidifying a long-term collaboration to advance AI technologies and innovations (Read More).

Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers Lab released AutoGen 0.4, an open-source framework overhaul designed to enhance code quality, scalability, and usability for building advanced AI agent systems (Read More).

OpenAI announced the launch of Stargate, a collaborative computing system with partners like SoftBank, Oracle, and Nvidia, aimed at strengthening U.S. AI leadership and creating significant economic benefits (Read More).

Alphabet is investing an additional $1 billion in AI startup Anthropic, enhancing its competitive position against OpenAI in the generative AI market (Read More).

Clay, a startup focused on sales lead data, has rapidly grown to $30 million in revenue and achieved a $1.25 billion valuation after refining its product to meet market demands, fueled by generative AI capabilities (Read More).

Google has integrated its Gemini AI assistant into standard Workspace subscriptions without extra charges, while simultaneously increasing subscription prices, aiming to broaden access to generative AI features (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!