13th July - AI News Daily - Beyond Billions: How Hugging Face, xAI, and Perplexity Are Democratizing Tomorrow's AI
- Author
- Sandy
- Published
- Sun 13 Jul 2025
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AI News Summaries:
https://s.server489.com/AI-2025-07-13
AI Tweet Summaries:
https://s.server489.com/XAI-2025-07-13
Industry Updates
Hugging Face is democratizing robotics with a $250 3D-printed robotic hand called "The Amazing Hand," making advanced hardware accessible to more people. xAI has reached a $200 billion valuation despite no reported revenue, generating market debate. Google's Stitch platform now offers more free generative outputs with improved speed and language support. Major hackathons like WeaveHacks are advancing AI agent protocols.
New Tools & Technologies
New releases include mlx-vlm v0.3.1 with improved vision capabilities, Technion's SingLoRA for efficient model fine-tuning, SmolTalk 2 for multi-turn multilingual reasoning, and DSPy for accessible local model fine-tuning.
LLM Landscape
Kimi K2 has emerged as a performance leader, surpassing Grok-4 and Llama Behemoth on key benchmarks thanks to innovative training methods like QK-Clip and MuonClip. Grok-4 is underperforming expectations, while xAI's Grok-3-mini is gaining recognition for balanced performance. New models like Kimi-Dev's 72B-parameter are fueling experimentation.
Product Innovations
Perplexity's Comet Browser is transforming online shopping with AI-powered memory-native features. OpenAI is developing an AI-integrated web browser to rival Chrome. Google's Gemini app now enables photo-to-video conversion. Healthcare is seeing innovations like CellLENS for 3D tumor mapping.
Industry Competition
The AI talent war intensifies with Google securing Windsurf's team after OpenAI's acquisition attempt failed. Meta is offering up to $300 million compensation packages to top researchers. OpenAI has postponed its open-source model release for safety testing. Anthropic's revenue has reached 40% of OpenAI's.
