Competitive Dynamics in AI: OpenAI vs. Google

Google’s AI efforts & Gemini Pro 2.5 take a major step forward with updates to Deep Research, new Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) & more. Sadly, OpenAI teases o3 and o4 but delays GPT-5. 

Plus, Meta’s new Llama 4 models are out but have issues, Midjourney v7’s debut, John Carmack’s smackdown of an AI video game engine hater, Gavin’s deep dive into OpenAI 4o Image Generation formats & the weirdest robot horse concept you’ve ever seen. 

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Google Cloud 25 Live Stream “A New Way To Cloud!”

https://youtu.be/Md4Fs-Zc3tg

Google Cloud Blog Post

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/next-2025/

Upgraded Deep Research Out Preforms OpenAI Deep Research

https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/1909721519724339226

Google’s Deep Research Vs OpenAI Deep Research

https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/1909727195402027183

New Ironwood TPUs

https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/ironwood-tpu-age-of-inference/

Gavin’s Experiences Google Gemini Deep Research:

Baltro Test: https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1909813850817675424

KP Biography: https://g.co/gemini/share/7b7bdb2c400e

Agent2Agent Protocol

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/

Google Paying Some AI Stuff To Do Nothing Rather Than Work For Rivals

https://x.com/TechCrunch/status/1909368948862181584

Solar Glow Meditations on AI

http://tiktok.com/@solarglowmeditations/video/7491038509214518559?_t=ZT-8vNNgF7QpyM&_r=1

o4-mini & o3 coming before GPT-5 in shift from Sam Altman

https://x.com/sama/status/1908167621624856998

OpenAI Strategic Deployment Team (new role to prep for AGI)

https://x.com/aleks_madry/status/1909686225658695897

AI 2027 Paper

https://ai-2027.com/

Llama 4 is here… but how good is it?

https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

Controversy Around Benchmarks: https://gizmodo.com/meta-cheated-on-ai-benchmarks-and-its-a-glimpse-into-a-new-golden-age-2000586433

Deep dive on issues from The Information 

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/llama-4s-rocky-debut?rc=c3oojq&shared=3bbd9f72303888e2

Midjourney v7 Is Here and it’s… just ok?

https://www.midjourney.com/updates/v7-alpha

John Carmack Defends AI Video Games

https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1909311174845329874

Tim Sweeney Weighs In

https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1909314230391902611

New Test-time-training = 1 Min AI Video From a Single Prompt

https://x.com/karansdalal/status/1909312851795411093

Kawasaki’s Robot Horse Concept

https://futurism.com/the-byte/kawasaki-rideable-horse-robot

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/vQDhzbTz-9k?si=2aWMtZVLnMONEjBe

Engine AI + iShowSpeed

https://x.com/engineairobot/status/1908570512906740037

Gemini 2.5 Pro Plays Pokemon

https://x.com/kiranvodrahalli/status/1909699142265557208

Prompt-To-Anything Minecraft Looking Game 

https://x.com/NicolasZu/status/1908882267453239323

An Image That Will Never Go Viral

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1jth5yf/asked_for_an_image_that_will_never_go_viral/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

How Toothpaste Is Made

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1jujzh2/how_toothpaste_is_made/

90s Video Game 4o Image Gen Prompt

https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1908985288116101553 1980s Japanese Posters

https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1909824824677192140

Buff Superbad 

https://x.com/AIForHumansShow/status/1909402225488937065