So much AI

Google IO, ChatGPT Codex, Sonnet 4, Claude Code Max and Microsoft did something too I think?

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24 May 2025 — 4 min read

I thought we would be cutting through AI generated slop, but it seems that the leading companies are piping out actual products at a record pace.

OpenAI (ChatGPT)

Not one to be out done, OpenAI introduced Codex - an asynchronous development tool that lets you 'set and forget' tasks just days before Google IO.

I wanted to cover this on the day but unfortunately they made teams users wait for 3 days with confusing communications (and I didn't want to pay $200).

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Anthropic (Claude)

Unlimited Claude Code with Claude MAX dropped the other week, with the cadence of Claude Code updates increasing significantly since with multiple releases daily.

Just today it integrated into VS code (inc. cursor and windsurf), alongside dropping Sonnet 4.0

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Google (...)

Too much to cover in this highlight, check back for google deep dive in a few days.

TLDR: Glasses, AI Studio, Also Codex but make it Google (Jules), Flow Video generation.

I will highlight the end of their 100 things blog post below:

99. As Sundar shared in his opening keynote, people are adopting AI more than ever before. As one example: This time last year, we were processing 9.7 trillion tokens a month across our products and APIs. Now, we’re processing over 480 trillion — 50 times more.

Microsoft

and Microsoft? Well they fired an employee who protested their supply of AI for military applications, along with 3% of their workforce - likely due to be replacement by Copilot.

On the flip side, they open sourced CoPilot, while at the same time investing in OpenAI, which purchased a VS code Fork (Windsurf) for 3 billion.

In parallel Cursor (also a VS code fork) has been valued at 9 Billion in the latest round of funding.

I saw this comment on the video below:

1. Hire Engineers to build product
2. Fire Engineers
3. Make product open source
4. Get the community to maintain the code
5. Profit

As always, Fireship explains it best.

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... one more thing

Jonny Ive and Sam Altman are I guess - a thing?

After acquiring Jonnys' hardware start up LoveFrom, they are now introducing io, not to be mistaken with Google io, a new hardware devision for Open AI.