Today’s Headlines:

• OpenAI Expands Deep Research Access & Releases Safety System Card - This expanded access comes alongside the release of a new Deep Research system card, which outlines the safety measures, risk assessments, and governance reviews conducted before deployment.

  
  
  
  

• DeepSeek Open Source Week Day 3: DeepGEMM Boosts FP8 GEMM Performance - DeepSeek has unveiled DeepGEMM, a lightweight yet powerful FP8 General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) library designed to support both dense and Mix-of-Experts (MoE) GEMMs. The library plays a crucial role in optimizing DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 training and inference, boasting impressive efficiency gains on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs.
  
  
  
  

• DeepSeek Reopens API Access After Suspension as China’s AI Battle Heats Up - DeepSeek has resumed access to its API after nearly three weeks of suspension, allowing users to top up credits and continue building applications on its AI platform. The move comes as competition among China’s AI firms heats up, with major players like Alibaba also advancing their models.
  
  
  
  

• DeepSeek Speeds Up R2 AI Model Launch, Aiming to Disrupt Market Again - Originally slated for an early May release, sources indicate that the company is pushing to launch R2 ahead of schedule—though no official date has been announced.
  
  
  
  

• Google Launches Free AI Coding Assistant With High Usage Limits - Gemini Code Assist for individuals, a free AI-powered coding assistant offers significantly higher usage limits than competing tools like GitHub Copilot. The company also unveiled Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, an AI-powered code review agent designed to detect bugs and suggest improvements directly within GitHub.
  
  
  
  

• AAIA Names Cheryl K. Goodman as Founding Member of San Diego Chapter - The San Diego chapter of the Applied AI Association (AAIA) has announced Cheryl K. Goodman, co-founder of AskTuring.ai, as a founding member. Goodman, a seasoned technology executive with leadership experience at Sony Global and Qualcomm, brings extensive expertise in AI, startups, and deep tech to the organization.
  
  
  
  

• Alibaba Releases Wan2.1, an Open-Source AI Video Model Rivaling Sora - Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has introduced Wan2.1, an open-source suite of cutting-edge video generation models that surpass both open-source and commercial competitors on key benchmarks—including speed and quality.
  
  
  
  

• Alibaba Unveils QwQ-Max-Preview, a Powerful AI Model for Deep Reasoning - Alibaba has introduced QwQ-Max-Preview, a new AI model designed for deep reasoning, mathematics, coding, and agent-based tasks. Built on Qwen2.5-Max, this preview model offers a glimpse into the upcoming QwQ-Max release, which will soon be open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license.
  
  
  
  

• Anthropic’s Claude AI Plays Pokémon on Twitch, Showcasing AI Reasoning - Anthropic has launched "Claude Plays Pokémon," a Twitch livestream where its latest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, attempts to play Pokémon Red. The experiment serves as both a demonstration of AI reasoning capabilities and a nostalgic callback to past Twitch gaming events.
  
  
  
  

• Qatar Signs 5-Year AI Deal with Scale AI to Modernize Government Services - Qatar has signed a five-year agreement with AI data company Scale AI to integrate artificial intelligence into government operations, aiming to improve efficiency and service delivery. The deal marks a significant step in Qatar’s efforts to adopt advanced AI-driven tools.

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Today’s AI in Action: Find your next SaaS idea using AI research

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Perplexity’s Deep Research to build a validated software product, complete with development specifications and launch strategy.

Step-by-step:

• Visit Perplexity and select "Deep Research".

• Use the prompt: "You are a Market Research Specialist. Analyze [INDUSTRY] by identifying top 10 problems, severity levels, current solutions, and market size."

• Transform your chosen problem into a product by prompting: "Design a SaaS solution for [problem], including essential features, tech stack, timeline, and revenue streams."

• Get implementation details with: "Provide step-by-step coding instructions, including API specifications and deployment configurations."

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