This week with key AI. Weekly Summary.

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In case you missed out individual updates on my social media. Here’s this week’s update.

Chinese Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max

  • Build on Qwen 3.5.
  • 2.4 trillion parameters.
  • Weights now available for download. Right now, free access is available in multiple locations, but not in India.
  • 3 billion downloads.

Google Gemini Robotics ER 2: Making robots human-like.

Gemini Robotics ER 2 (The Gemini Embodied Reasoning (ER) model) — It’s an intelligence layer- not a robot. It has demonstrated its performance on the robots mentioned below. It makes robots think, act, and accomplish.

Gemini Robotics 2 can control many kinds of robots to accomplish a physical-world task, as demonstrated here with:

  • 1. Apptronik Apollo Robotics and Duo robots, multi-robot collaboration.
  • 2. Apptronik’s Apollo with Inpire hands.
  • 3. Apptronik’s Apollo with Sharpa hands.

Gemini 3.7 Flash

  • Google upgrade for coding, websites, and agents: Antigravity now comes with Gemini Flash 3.7.
  • Gemini Spark is Google’s 24/7 autonomous personal AI agent is also powered by Gemini Flash 3.7.
  • All at half the cost till end of this year. $0.75 / 1M input tokens, $3.75 / 1M output tokens.

Google Antigravity with Gemini 3.7 Flash

  • Makes you make apps and agents in minutes

China’s AI

GLM-5.3 BY Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu AI, one of China’s six major AI companies.

Grok 4.6

  • AI chatbot developed by SpaceXAI (previously xAI).
  • Access to information from X
  • It competes with major AI players on all major AI datasets.
  • Grok 4.6 is in Cursor and Grok Build.
  • Not open-weight
  • Available in the API.
  • Try it for free.

Chinese DeepSeek

  • DeepSeek V4-Flash Vision Release. Allows agents to process and accept multimodal — i.e., both image and text inputs.
  • API is now live.
  • DeepSeek Harness 0.1.1 Release. It is an agentic coding framework by DeepSeek.
  • Under MIT licence.

Meta #1 Trillion Lawsuit

  • Lawsuit filed in 2023 by 29 US states, over children’s privacy laws.
  • Meta being an addiction to children.
  • Teens being content to be monitored.
  • End of autoplay of video content.
  • Right now Meta is worth around $1.5tn as per news.

    This week’s code, made in minutes with AI.

    Here is the prompt to Agentic Coding:

    “Make a climate app that alerts people well in advance about earthquakes, forest fires, cloud bursts, heavy rain, and severe droughts. So that people and the government can plan things.”

    GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Nidhika1121/climateApp

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    In the AI blog, Nidhika Yadav covers topics of and related to Artificial Intelligence. She primarily talks about AI applications for good. She also talks about how AI can become harmful. She manages three independent blogs here, you can subscribe one or all of them. 1. Blog on Artificial Intelligence and future. https://nidhikayadav.org 2. In Blog on Global Issues and future, she covers important international issues and their future implications. https://nidhikayadav.com/ 3. Blog on cooking. Here she describes some delicious innovations and nutritious food. https://nidhikasrecipes.com/ Do subscribe to one or all of them.

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