Here’s the AI News for February 25.
DeepSeek R2 is coming soon Gemini Code Assist is available for free Convergence releases Proxy Lite and OpenAI opens up access to Deep Research here’s today’s AI news. DeepSeek R2 had been slated for launch in May, but the success of some of their competitors recent models has put the pressure on.
The release has now moved from May to ‘as soon as possible.’ Will DeepSeek R2 have the same huge impact as their R1 model did? I guess we won’t have to wait long to find out. Google’s Gemini Code Assist is a rival to Copilot. It gives users a set of coding tools aimed to supercharge their productivity.
Today, Google announced that the Gemini Code Assist tools would be available for free for all users with 180,000 code completions per month. With this huge allowance, it seems like Google are trying to take a big chunk out of Copilot’s market share. Will they be able to tempt coders to make the switch?
AI startup Convergence made headlines in recent weeks by launching a rival to operator called Proxy. It was very well received and made some instant fans. Now they’re back with Proxy Lite, a 3 billion parameter vision language model that’s open source and can run on your local machine.
That’s quite the contrast to the $200 operator offering from OpenAI. We can’t help but root for convergence with the approach that they’re taking. Finally, OpenAI announced that Deep Research would now be available to all of its plus subscribers, and that a version of Advanced Voice powered by GPT4o-mini would be available to all ChatGPT users, even to those on the free tier.
OpenAI are definitely feeling increased pressure to ship more often, and that’s good for the users.