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Today’s Menu 🥠

• Google Is Throwing Money Into Anthropic

• AI Agents for Non-Coders and Developers

• Gemini 2.0 Is Outmuscling The Competition 

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Big Checks, Bigger Ambitions
Google’s $3B Stake in Anthropic 🤑

Google is going big by throwing even more money into Anthropic.

This hefty investment ups the competition against Amazon, which recently invested $1 billion in the same company. Meanwhile, Microsoft is letting OpenAI expand with its own AI compute. Big Tech is clearly banking on AI domination, but with all these financial power moves, who is actually winning?

Probably not us regular folks if Netflix’s $18 standard plan is any indicator of where tech is heading. Netflix and chill might have to be cut back.

From APIs to AI agents
Postman Builds AI Agents for Non-Coders and Developers 👨‍💻

Postman is leveling up from APIs to AI agents.

Enter their new AI agent builder: a no-code and developer-friendly toolkit that blends APIs and large language models like OpenAI or Google’s Gemini. Pitch-perfect for non-coders, it offers a visual editor and testing tools. While tailored for backend operations, Postman plans to expand functionality over time. CEO Abhinav Asthana sees this as a key step forward in enhancing developer experience — a space cloud giants are still fumbling.

Pricing’s TBD, but the potential here is wild. Techies and noobs alike, you’re gonna want to keep an eye on this one.

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Gemini's Glow-Up
Google’s Gemini 2.0 Outshines GPT-4 and Claude 3.5

Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model just lapped its competitors in the Chatbot Arena, posting gains in fields like math, science, and creative tasks.

It even dethroned GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet—no easy feat. With upgrades like runnable code execution and a jaw-dropping one-million-token context window, this AI is more loaded than your holiday leftovers. But, before the bragging rights get too loud, it still fumbles with formatting outputs.

It’s clear Google is playing the long AI game—and winning. So far.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

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