$500B for Stargate, DeepSeek-R1 outperformed OpenAI-o1

AgentPulse: Your Weekly Dose of AI Agents News.

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Thrilled to welcome you to the very first edition of AgentPulse β€” your weekly dose of AI agents news and trends!

In today’s AgentPulse:

  • πŸ“° AI Agents News

  • πŸš€ 5 Trending AI Agents

  • ✨ 5 New AI Agents

  • πŸ“– Reading List

πŸ“° AI Agents News

πŸ€– Stargate: OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and partners launched the $500 billion Stargate Project to build AI infrastructure in the U.S., starting with Texas data centers, aiming to secure American AI leadership and create 100,000+ jobs

πŸ€– DeepSeek R1: Open-source reasoning model rivals OpenAI-o1 in math/code tasks, trained via pure reinforcement learning at 1/30th the cost, with API access and distilled smaller models for community use.

πŸ€– Alibaba Group launched Qwen 2.5-Max, , a large MoE LLM pretrained on massive data and post-trained with curated SFT and RLHF recipes. It achieves competitive performance against the top-tier models, and outcompetes DeepSeek V3 in benchmarks like Arena Hard, LiveBench, LiveCodeBench, GPQA-Diamond.

πŸ€– Jensen Huang shared during CES2025 keynotes:
➑️ β€œAI agents are a multi-trillion dollar opportunity”
➑️ β€œThe IT department of every company is going to be the HR department of AI agents in the future”

πŸ’‘OpenAI launched o3-mini and it is now available in ChatGPT and the API.

πŸ’‘OpenAI launched ChatGPT 'Tasks' that can schedule reminders or recurring requests. 

πŸ’‘Satya Nadella announced Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat making AI Agents more accessable to employees in every business. 

πŸ’‘ LangChain released Open Sourced:
➑️ AI Email Asisstant
➑️ Social Media Agent
➑️ Agent Inbox UI 

πŸ’‘ Windsurf Editor by Codeium released COMMAND feature, that doesn't use your credits. 

πŸ’‘ Lovable rolls out an experimental chat-only feature to chat with your codebase without making any changes 

πŸ’‘ Letta launched Development Environment (ADE) for agents in public beta that gives you complete, real-time control.
 
πŸ’‘Lutra AI released Dynamic UX with AI Agents to make it intuitive when AI agent works on large spreadsheet. 

πŸ’‘causaLens custom AI Agents in data science out performed GPT-4o general agent, delivering 62.5% better performance. 

πŸ’‘Mistral AI released Codestral 25.01 that is proficient in over 80 coding languages and specialized in low latency, high-frequency tasks such as code complition and testing. 

πŸ’‘Hugging Face anounced the interactive Agents Course to learn how to build and deploy your own AI agents.

πŸ’‘Hugging Face released smolagents v1.3.0 where you can log agent runs using OpenTelemetry to inspect them afterwards.

πŸ’‘Synthesia, AI Avatar startup, reased $180M in series D funding. 

πŸ’‘Google Workspace Business and Enterprise customers will now have access to NotebookLM Plus! 

πŸ’‘NVIDIA has released a blueprint for Document Research Assistant for Blog Creation.

πŸ’‘ Relevance AI introduced Agent Generator β€˜Gen’ the simple way to build your own AI agents w/o tech experience!

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πŸš€ Trending AI Agents (7d)

  • aiXplain: Production-ready AI Agent with Trusted outcome.

  • LM-Kit SDK: Build Samrt Apps with Language Models

  • THub: Powering the Future with Intelligent AI Agents

  • Conveyor: Handle end-to-end B2B security reviews

  • Agent WordLift: Your AI-powered SEO Assistant

✨ New AI Agents

 πŸ“– READING LIST

πŸ“Microsoft: 6 AI trends you’ll see more of in 2025

πŸ“Google: AI Trends 2025 in manufacturing and automotive.

πŸ“Anthropic: Building Effective Agents.

πŸ“LangChain: State of AI Agents.

πŸ“ Langbase: 2024 State of AI Agents.

πŸ“ KPMG: AI Quarterly Pulse Survey.

πŸ“ Deloitte Insights: Tech Trends 2025.

πŸ“51 Insights: State of the Web3 2025 Report

πŸ“A16Z: Big Ideas 2025

πŸ“IBM: 5 Trends for 2025