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Ainsider Weekly Newsletter
Summary of most important events and upadates in AI and LLM world | Set of very powerful new AI tools and AI platforms - AI Agents, App Builders and Video Short Ads Generators
Piotr Macai
May 18, 2025
Ainsider Newsletter: Table of Contents
The Latest Breakthroughs in AI and Gen AI: Key Events from May 2025
OpenAI’s Codex: A Game-Changer for Software Engineering
OpenAI launched Codex, a cloud-based AI coding agent integrated into ChatGPT for Pro, Enterprise, and Team users. Powered by codex-1 (a specialized version of OpenAI’s o3 model), Codex autonomously navigates codebases, writes features, fixes bugs, and proposes pull requests for review.
Key Features:
Operates in isolated cloud sandbox environments for each task.
Handles complex workflows like implementing and testing code changes.
Initially free during the research preview, with pricing to follow.
Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve: Redefining Algorithm Discovery
Google DeepMind introduced AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent designed for algorithm discovery and optimization. It evolves entire codebases and has already been deployed across Google’s ecosystem.
Key Achievements:
Optimized Google’s data centers, achieving up to 23% speedups.
Enhanced chip design and AI training processes.
Discovered new matrix multiplication algorithms, surpassing AlphaTensor (DeepMind’s 2022 model).
Solved 75% of 50 open math problems and improved solutions in 20% of cases, including the kissing number problem.
Windsurf’s SWE-1 Models: AI for End-to-End Software Engineering
Windsurf launched SWE-1, a family of AI models designed to handle complete software engineering workflows, from coding to deployment.
Key Features:
Trained on incomplete states and multi-surface interactions.
Claims performance competitive with Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Anthropic’s 2024 model).
Notion’s “AI for Work”: Boosting Workplace Productivity
Notion unveiled “AI for Work,” a suite featuring AI Meeting Notes, Enterprise Search, and Research Mode, available for Business and Enterprise plans.
Key Features:
Unlimited Notion AI with automatic transcription.
Cross-platform search across Slack, Google Drive, Jira, GitHub, and more.
Adheres to strict security standards (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA).
Anthropic’s Mobile Research Feature for Claude
Anthropic rolled out a mobile Research feature for Claude, enabling interconnected searches across internal work contexts and the web.
Key Features:
Conducts comprehensive research on the go.
Builds on Claude’s 2024 web-based research capabilities.
Claude’s Zapier MCP Integration: Unlocking 8,000+ Apps for AI Agents
Anthropic’s Claude, a conversational AI model, now integrates with Zapier via MCP, enabling it to interact with over 8,000 apps and 30,000 pre-built actions without requiring custom integrations.
Details:
Zapier’s MCP integration allows Claude to perform tasks like sending Slack messages, updating Google Sheets, or automating email campaigns directly from a chat interface.
This eliminates the need for developers to write complex API integrations, a process that typically takes hours or days.
Claude can now handle multi-step workflows, such as pulling data from PayPal, summarizing it, and sending a report via Gmail—all through natural language prompts.
CopilotKit’s MCP Client Component: Simplifying AI Agent Integration
CopilotKit released an MCP Client Component, allowing developers to connect any app to an MCP server (like Cursor or Claude Desktop) with a single command: npx copilotkit@latest init -m MCP.
Details:
The component enables agentless architectures, meaning developers can build smart applications without managing complex AI agent frameworks.
It supports platforms like Cursor and Claude Desktop, allowing apps to tap into MCP servers for tasks like email drafting or data retrieval.
CopilotKit’s framework simplifies the integration process, reducing setup time to under 30 minutes, as noted in their documentation.
Gradio’s Docs MCP: Supercharging AI Agents with Contextual Knowledge
Gradio launched an MCP server that provides large language models (LLMs) with rich context from Gradio’s documentation, enhancing their ability to answer technical queries and perform tasks.
Details:
The MCP server converts Gradio’s documentation into a tool that LLMs can query, using docstrings to describe functions and parameters.
AI agents can now access detailed guides on building machine learning interfaces, enabling them to assist developers in creating Gradio apps or troubleshooting issues.
It integrates with MCP clients like Cursor, Cline, and Tiny Agents, making it easy to plug into existing workflows.
Baserow’s MCP Server: Natural Language Data Management for AI Agents
Baserow introduced an MCP server that allows AI agents to manage data through natural language prompts, supporting all standard CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations.
Details:
Users can interact with Baserow databases via conversational AI, saying things like “Add a new record to my customer table” or “Update the status of order #123.”
The server integrates with platforms like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf, requiring only a secure MCP URL to connect.
It emphasizes security, treating MCP URLs as sensitive credentials to prevent unauthorized data access.
Tencent’s HunyuanCustom: Multimodal Video Generation
Tencent launched HunyuanCustom, an open-source 13B multimodal video generation platform supporting text, image, audio, and video inputs.
Key Features:
Ensures subject consistency across single and multi-subject scenarios.
Competes with OpenAI’s Sora (released in 2024).
Meta’s Collaborative Reasoner (CoRaL): AI That Works Together
Meta introduced CoRaL, a system that teaches AI models to collaborate through multi-agent conversations, enhancing Llama models.
Key Features:
Uses synthetic self-dialogue training.
Achieves a 29.4% improvement in collaborative reasoning tasks.
ElevenLabs’ SB-1 Infinite Soundboard: Audio Innovation
ElevenLabs launched SB-1 Infinite Soundboard, a tool combining a soundboard, drum machine, and ambient noise generator, powered by their Text-to-SFX model.
Key Features:
Generates custom sound effects from text descriptions.
Targets creators needing versatile audio solutions.