Google Cloud unveils Ironwood TPU and Axion instances

Google Cloud introduces Ironwood TPUs and Axion Arm-based instances targeting AI training and inference at scale. Ironwood offers a 10× gain over TPU v5p, while Axion shows strong price-performance for enterprises shifting workloads.

🗞 #ai

Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2 Thinking with 44.9% achievement on HLE

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter open-weight model, outperforms GPT-4.1 in reasoning and coding with groundbreaking accuracy and efficiency. Its MoE architecture and agentic tools mark a shift toward autonomous, task-oriented AI.

🗞 #kimi

Written by Kimi K2 Thinking 👀

UPD: And it was bad cuz it hallucinated the whole thing. Now fully re written by Erin!

ICYMI: Google Flow updates from 11/4/2025

- Adjusting the camera position or motion in a previously generated video is now available to Ultra subscribers.
- Prompt Expanders support with Ingredients to Video.

BREAKING 🚨: Comet browser got a major upgrade for its agentic capabilities.

- It can work longer and on more complex jobs across larger periods of time.
- It performs 23% better than its predecessor.

Longer context was a top request from all the users! Now it can write a weekly recap newsletter for me in one shot as well as seamlessly work with spreadsheets.

Testing time 👀

A new stealth model, "Polaris Alpha," is now available on OpenRouter. 256k context window and a quite good performance.

It is worth to test 👀

Google is working on a Chrome Extension for NotebookLM (not available yet). Possibly, it will let users add open pages as sources to the selected notebook.

Google rolls out Opal AI Agent builder in 160+ countries

Google has expanded Opal, its no-code AI app builder, to over 160 countries, targeting non-technical users who want to automate tasks or create content. The platform integrates with Google services and supports rapid app development.

🗞 #opal

Google test annotation and background removal on Mixboard

Google’s Mixboard is evolving as a visual tool for structuring complex topics, with new features like background removal and image annotations in development, suggesting its role in advancing multimodal workflows across Google products.

🗞 #aitestkitchen

Now you can upload PDFs and Spreadsheets from your Google Drive as a source to NotebookLM.

Now in ✅
Soon out 👀

BREAKING 🚨: OpenAI is preparing to ship GPT-5.1 family with 3 new models:
- GPT-5.1
- GPT-5.1 Reasoning
- GPT-5.1 Pro

These traces appear in the code for Enterprise RBAC settings, and the release date is set to "November 24".

You can now test upcoming GPT-5.1 on OpenRouter

OpenAI is preparing to launch the GPT-5.1 model family, including GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1 Reasoning, and GPT-5.1 Pro, with an expected release by November 24. Early testing under the name Polaris Alpha suggests strong benchmark results.

🗞 #chatgpt

Microsoft prepares Copilot Shopping updates ahead of Black Friday

Microsoft is transforming Copilot into an AI-driven shopping hub, introducing features like tracked prices, order history, product insights, and review summaries—positioning it as a competitive alternative to Amazon and Google Shopping.

🗞 #microsoftcopilot

ERNIE-5.0-Preview-1022 from Baidu got a preliminary high ranking on LMArena and scored 1432 points.

Feels like the gap is getting very small 👀

BREAKING 🚨: Nano Banana 2 appeared to be accessible via Media IO in Preview. All the tests we have made so far confirm this.

This won't last long 👀

Early look at images generated by Nano Banana 2

Google is set to launch Nano Banana 2, a visual AI upgrade offering improved accuracy, broader resolution and aspect ratio support, and a multi-step correction loop. It still runs on Gemini 2.5 Flash, with a likely shift to Gemini 3 Pro later.

P.S. Open this post on the web to see all samples.

🗞 #gemini

Nano Banana 2 excels at text rendering, infographics, world knowledge, charts, i18n and instruction following.

Check a gallery of samples above ☝️