SunnyDigest - July 25
July 25, 1975: Jaws hit theaters.
July 25, 2025: The AI seas are stirring again. And these tech titans aren’t exactly swimming with the minnows.
🌊 GOOGLE'S GEMINI 2.5: THE BUDGET SHARK
From the depths of Mountain View emerges Gemini 2.5 Flash‑Lite. Sleek, efficient, and hungry for scale. This isn’t a great white; it’s more like a blue shark: fast, lean, and terrifyingly good at finding value.
Clocking in at 45% faster speeds and 30% lower energy use, it slices through chat, video, translation, and multimodal tasks with surgical precision. And the cost? Just $0.10 per million input tokens.
This one isn’t just nibbling on the competition, it’s making serious waves in the value-for-performance pool.
🌪️ OPENAI + ORACLE: WELCOME TO THE STARGATE LAGOON
Cue the ominous cello. OpenAI and Oracle have joined fins to construct Stargate, a deep-sea monster of a data center project with over 5 gigawatts of AI power coursing through it.
Built to fuel future models and feed a ravenous compute appetite, the initiative is set to cost OpenAI a whopping $30 billion per year, and it’s already reshaping the cloud ocean floor.
Think of it as a megashark: invisible from the surface, but dominating everything below.
🐟 META'AS TALENT HUNT: SHARK TANK GOES SUPERINTELLIGENT
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta isn’t just swimming with sharks, it’s poaching them. The company has kicked off a high-stakes talent hunt to power Meta Superintelligence Labs, luring ex-OpenAI wizards and AI elite with deals reportedly reaching $200 million.
With Alexandr Wang at the helm and a streamlined R&D crew, MSL is less about size and more about bite.
Call it what you want: a feeding frenzy, a brainy bait line. But this crew is building something deep and potentially dangerous.
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