OpenAI untangles its own corporate knot, flipping the for-profit arm into a Public Benefit Corporation and teasing genuinely open weights at last. Right behind them, dev-tool darling Cursor bags $900 M from Thrive Capital and a16z, rocketing to a $9 B valuation—just one day before arch-rival Windsurf is snapped up by OpenAI for $3 B. That’s $12 B in AI coding tools in 48 hours.
Google refuses to be out-shone: Gemini 2.5 Pro “I/O edition” storms LM-Arena, grabbing #1 in coding and WebDev and showing off live app-building skills ahead of Google I/O.
Lightricks counters with LTX-Video 13B, an open-source video model (13 B parameters, multiscale rendering, keyframes, camera moves) that’s up to 30× faster on a single consumer GPU. HeyGen fires back with Avatar IV, whose new audio-to-expression engine turns one photo into an uncannily lifelike talking head. Creative tools level-up everywhere: Higgsfield first drops a blockbuster cinematic VFX pack—Thunder God, Turning Metal, Set on Fire—then doubles down with “Effects Mix” so users can fuse any effects together.
Freepik’s GPT-4o-powered “Composition” transforms rough sketches into polished layouts, while at Figma Config 2025 the star is “Figma Make,” letting you feed a design and a prompt into Claude 3.7 and walk away with a working prototype.
On the frontier of input methods, a viral demo shows Gemini coding an interactive earthquake map from nothing but a narrated screen-cast uploaded to YouTube. Meanwhile, rumors swirl that Grok 3.5 could drop any moment—complete with its mischievous sibling “Gork” in voice mode.
Enigma Labs flashes “Multiverse,” a real-time multiplayer world that materializes as you explore, and Persona AI unveils five purpose-built humanoids—miner, builder, welder, fabricator, assembler—racing toward factory floors.
Luma AI’s “Reframe” rescues cramped footage with smart out-painting and video resizing, while Figure Robotics proves Figure 02 can take a kicking and keep on ticking—though maybe stop kicking robots? Volonaut silences doubters with a real-world May-the-4th speeder-bike flight, and Dream Park turns a Santa Monica street into an AR playground via Quest 3.
In corporate land, Elon World goes into overdrive: reports peg xAI’s next raise at a staggering $125 B valuation; Tesla Semi joins US Foods’ fleet; Steak ’n Shake volunteers as a robo-taxi guinea pig; United Airlines starts rolling out 200 Mbps Starlink Wi-Fi from May 15; and TSLA pops almost 5 %. We’re still waiting on that Grok 3.5 drop, though.
And because robot dogs apparently weren’t menacing enough, someone just strapped a rifle to a quadruped; future warfare is officially having a moment—and yes, it’s terrifying.