💥 OpenAI Buys Windsurf for $3BN plus Gemini 2.5 Gets Buffed

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Date: 11-May-2025

Hey AI enthusiast,

And just when you think you’ve seen it all…there’s always One More Thing in AI.

In this edition:

• OpenAI Buys Windsurf for $3 B: Talk Your App into …

  • Why the Move Matters

  • The Bigger Picture

• 🚀 Gemini 2.5 Pro just leveled up for coders

• AED 25k for UAE Business owners

• 🎓 Top 20 Study Prompts Students Use With ChatGPT

• More News scoured from X.com

  • Meet Avatar IV—it flips the script on digital faces.

  • Nvidia releases Parakeet

  • Figma unveils a suite of AI-powered features

  • Lightricks releases an open-source AI video model called LTXV.

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You are going to enjoy reading this one!

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OpenAI Buys Windsurf for $3 B: Talk Your App into Life 

Vibe coding is all the rage now. Type/ Speak an idea, ship a product- that future just got closer.

Why does this Acquisition Matters
Imagine talking your idea into life. That’s the promise behind OpenAI’s biggest deal yet- snapping up Windsurf, the team behind the Codeium AI IDE. Here’s why founders and tech leaders should watch this wave.

Why the Move Matters

• OpenAI now owns the full developer journey- from prompt to production.

• 🛠️ Windsurf’s “vibe coding” lets anyone build apps with plain language, no keyboard gymnastics.

• It arms OpenAI to spar head-on with GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer.

• 🌐 The purchase shows how coding is shifting from craft to conversation.

What Developers Get

• Cascade, Windsurf’s agent system, writes code, runs commands, and debugs- so you stay in flow.

• 🔄 Sessions remember context. Suggestions stay relevant, errors drop, momentum climbs. Real-time co-editing means teams riff together without the merge-pain.

• 📈 Faster cycles free time for features, not fixes.

The Bigger Picture

Software once needed specialists. Now AI handles the heavy lifting while humans steer strategy. The Windsurf plus OpenAI combination blurs the line between coder and coach and shrinking the gap from idea to launch.

🚀 Gemini 2.5 Pro just leveled up for coders

Google’s updated Gemini model is now sharper at web development and code editing.

You can now:
– Build full web apps, games, and simulations from a single prompt
– Transform images into code to capture patterns and styles
– Create clean UIs and handle backend logic
📈 It’s topping both the WebDev Arena Leaderboard and LM Arena for coding performance.

Also supports:
– Code refactoring
– Multi-agent workflows (this is going to be fun!)
– Complex editing tasks

Live now on:
• Gemini App / Google AI Studio / Google Cloud Vertex AI

Read more here → https://goo.gle/4iIoysB

So What? 

Well, now you have another AI powered coding tool other than Cursor and Windsurf (see above) for your startup.

There are however the usual caveats about vibe coding (need for secure code, version control etc), that you need to observe while you build.

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🎓 Top 20 Study Prompts Students Use With ChatGPT

(And honestly, you don’t have to be a student to use these.)

These aren’t just for finals. They’re productivity and learning prompts for anyone trying to think better, write smarter, and learn faster.

Here are a few standouts:

🧠 “I want to learn by teaching. Ask me questions about [topic] so I can explain them back.”
🔍 “Explain [topic] to me at 3 levels from elementary to college.”
🧩 “Suggest opposing viewpoints to pressure test my thesis.”
🎤 “Act as my public speaking coach and give feedback on this talk.”
📊 “Help me learn this deck in a faster, more interesting way.”
🕹️ “Turn this topic into a game to help me learn.”
🧾 “Create a checklist from the assignment brief.”
🗞️ “Find 3 expert views on [topic] and compare their opinions.”
💥 “Motivate me. I’m studying [topic] and stuck.”

Shared by the ChatGPT for Education team (you can search for the full list of prompts there). This is how AI becomes your learning partner- not just a search box.

Which one would you try today?

More News scoured from X.com

1. Meet Avatar IV—it flips the script on digital faces.
   
   • One photo, one script. Upload both and let the model handle the rest.
   • New audio-to-expression engine. It listens to your voice and copies your tone, rhythm, and emotions, then moves the face so naturally it feels alive.
   • Not just people. Pets, aliens, or any creature you dream up- Avatar IV can animate them in seconds.

2. Nvidia releases Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v2:

   This is a fully open-source transcription AI model that can process 60 minutes of audio in just one second. It tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with the lowest error rate.

3. Figma unveils a suite of AI-powered features to help designers.

4. Lightricks releases an open-source AI video model called LTXV.  

   This 13B parameter model comes with camera control, multi-scale rendering, keyframes, and motion previews via LTX Studio.