🤝 Altman x Ive

Welcome back, Superhuman. A tech CEO and a design visionary walk into a café. That’s the premise behind a splashy new video announcing OpenAI’s largest-ever acquisition. With Apple vet Jony Ive’s design firm under its wing, the ChatGPT-maker wants to replace your smartphone with something even better.

Today’s Insights

• Ivy x Altman, Gemma 3n, and Mistral’s new coding model

• Our interview with Airtable CEO Howie Liu

• Tutorial: How to create Deep Research reports with public and private data

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. Design legend heads to OpenAI to work on mysterious device: Best known for his work on the iPhone and MacBook, Jony Ive has been working with Sam Altman on an experimental device that Altman claims is the “coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen.” Now, the pair has signed a $6.5B deal to fold Ive’s device startup, io, along with its 55 employees, into OpenAI’s growing hardware division. They plan to unveil a potential smartphone replacement sometime next year. In the meantime, Ive will spearhead all creative and design work for the ChatGPT-maker.

2. Everything you might have missed from Google I/O: Google dropped so many new announcements on Tuesday that I couldn’t even cover everything. For one, a new open-source model called Gemma 3n is so efficient that it needs just 2GB of memory, meaning it can run locally on your phone with no trouble. Other spinoffs include MedGemma for medical imaging and health expertise, SignGemma for sign language translations, and DolphinGemma, for one day communicating with dolphins. Finally, NotebookLM will soon let you generate Video Overviews — or change the length of your Audio Overviews.

3. Mistral unveils frontier coding model: The French startup showed off Devstral, which it claims is now the most powerful open-source coding model available “by a large margin.” Its agentic capabilities mean it’s especially good at understanding the context of larger codebases and spotting bugs hidden inside complex programs. It should make it much easier for developers to build their own coding apps, especially considering it can run locally on a high-powered Mac.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Airtable CEO Howie Liu on how AI is reshaping databases

Howie Liu is the CEO and co-founder of Airtable, a platform that lets anyone create AI-powered spreadsheets, databases, and apps from scratch. More than 500,000 organizations, including AWS, Walmart, and Dropbox, use it every day. We talked to Liu about how you can leverage AI to bring your boldest ideas to life.

1. AI is starting to supercharge databases: Agents now know how to interact with tabs inside your spreadsheets. That lets you automate multi-step tasks that used to take hours of manual work — for example, writing a personalized email to each and every one of your customers, with web research adding additional context to each message.

2. The trillion-dollar question haunting no-code app builders: Are ChatGPT-like chat interfaces here to stay, or are they just paving the way for something else? Liu says it’s probably a bit of both. Airtable’s new Siri-like chatbot can answer questions about your data, but it can also build tables and visuals, giving you another way to interact with your knowledge base.

3. Start by framing your problem: Before rushing into a bunch of new AI-powered workflows, take some time to think about what you actually want AI to do for you. Once you have a very specific goal defined, it becomes much easier to prompt engineer that workflow and measure the results.

4. If you’re a vibe coder, you can let AI teach you along the way: Anyone can now generate a simple app with AI, but scaling up isn’t easy unless you have coding expertise. One way to get around this is to use AI as your interactive teacher, guiding you step-by-step through difficult technical challenges.

5. Reasoning models are far more capable than many of us realize: With models like Claude 3.7 and OpenAI’s o3, “we’ve just crossed the threshold where the models are actually good enough to reason about domain problems,” Liu said. “I encourage people to actually try the most bold, audacious thing you can throw at AI as you can…You try really advanced stuff, and you will be surprised at how good it is.”

👉 Watch our full conversation here

THE AI ACADEMY

How to create Deep Research reports with public and private data

• Go to Gemini and login with your account

• Now turn on ‘Deep Research’ and enter your prompt

Sample prompt: Research and draft a report on [insert topic] based on the key themes in my meeting notes.

• Upload any file (PDF, DOCX, image, spreadsheet, etc.) you want Gemini to analyze

• Gemini will analyze the content and give you structured report based on the file you shared

• Once done, click on ‘Create‘ to turn your report into a quiz, webpage, infographic, an app, or an audio

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🛒 Supercharged Sales: E-commerce giant Shopify just launched an AI-powered online store builder, an upgraded commerce chatbot, and a no-code block generator as part of its Summer ‘25 showcase, where it showed off more than 150 upgrades.

🪽 Spreading Its Wings: LMArena, which hosts the popular crowd-sourced Chatbot Arena leaderboard, is officially spinning out into a startup. It has so far raised $100M in seed funding, bringing its valuation to $600M.

👀 Rumor Mill: Developers have spotted references to “Claude 4” hidden in Claude’s source code, suggesting Anthropic’s next model is coming very soon.

✨ Force Multiplier: OpenAI’s Responses API, which helps developers build their own agents, is getting some major updates, including MCP servers, image generation, and code interpretation.

💾 Thinking Big: Crusoe, the startup tasked with building OpenAI’s massive Texas data center, just landed $11.6B in new funding commitments, which it’ll spread across eight sprawling server buildings.

PRODUCTIVITY

5 AI Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🍝 Making Waves: Google’s Veo 3 has only been out for a day, and already, creators are doing some really cool things with it. AI storyteller Ari Kuschnir made this viral video in just two hours. Plus, the model might be the first to officially pass the spaghetti test.

🎮 Slippery Slope: On a more unsettling note, people are also using the new Veo to create fake video game livestreams and other believable deepfakes.

⚔️ Head-to-Head: a16z’s Olivia Moore shares a useful breakdown of how Google’s new agentic browser capabilities compare to ChatGPT Operator.

🧑‍💻 Show and Tell: Builder Sherry Jiang shows the exact stack she used to vibe code an app in just three hours that went on to generate $275K in funding.

💬 Missing Link: Cornell researchers say they were able to translate embeddings from one AI model to another without sharing any data between them, suggesting there’s a “universal geometry” that bridges most LLMs.

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