It continues to be quite overwhelming to keep following all the updates in AI. It’s both exciting and stressful because just when you think you’re going to have a quiet week, all the major AI providers release significant updates that rock the entire world that you previously knew.

Here are the biggest AI updates that have happened in the last few weeks, with sources so you can learn more about each innovation:

🖼️ ChatGPT’s New Image Creation Model

  • Photoshop-like editing capabilities with precise text rendering in images
  • Ability to transform existing images and inpaint details

Read more at TechCrunch | See examples at VentureBeat

🧠 Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro

  • Google’s most advanced “thinking model” with 1 million token context window
  • Leading scores on math, science, and coding benchmarks

Official Google Announcement | Technical Details

🔍 Claude Adds Web Search

  • Real-time search with direct citations for fact-checking
  • Information delivered in conversational format rather than as search results

Anthropic’s Announcement | TechCrunch Coverage

🚀 DeepSeek’s V3-0324 Model

  • Latest release on Hugging Face
  • Significant improvements in coding benchmarks over previous versions

DeepSeek V3 on HF | Analysis by Simon Willison

📊 Claude’s Data Analysis Tool

  • Runs JavaScript code on the fly for processing complex data
  • Shows all code being written while performing analysis

Note: This feature was released in late 2024 but continues to be a standout capability. I’ve created a Markdown converter tool that works great with Claude’s output to create nice looking PDF reports.

My Current AI Stack

  1. Claude Pro ($20/month)
    • Using Sonnet 3.7 for creating React layouts and generating Snowflake MySQL queries
    • Impressive at complex one-shot queries with optimizations like sampling rates
    • Now with added internet search capability
  2. Gemini Advanced ($20/month)
    • Experimenting with Gemini 2.5 Pro’s advanced reasoning capabilities
    • Testing the latest general-purpose model improvements
  3. ChatGPT Plus ($20/month)
    • Access to GPT-4.5 and native image generation
    • Despite some disappointments with ChatGPT Operator, the core model remains useful
  4. Perplexity Pro ($20/month)
    • 300+ Pro searches per day with choice of advanced AI models
    • File upload capabilities and improved research tools
  5. Paid subscription to Cursor ($20/mo)
    • Now featuring integration with Gemini 2.5 Pro
    • First non-Claude model that makes meaningful code updates without errors

Everyone continues to buzz about MCPs (Model Context Protocol). I recently updated my MCP stack with Claude Desktop, and open sourced it here , which builds on my previous post about MCP here .