OpenAI’s Massive Funding and Gemini 2.5 Launch- Plus Ghibli images break the Internet

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Date: 29-Mar-2025

Hey AI enthusiast,

This week’s edition is packed with must-know AI updates for startup founders, solopreneurs, and tech enthusiasts.

Inside this Edition:

1. Master Vibe Coding with AI: Boost Your Skills 🚀

2. OpenAI Lands $40 Billion—Here’s Why It Matters

3. If Studio Ghibli Made “Lord of the Rings”… 🎬✨

5. Timbaland’s Latest Music Video is Powered by AI—Watch Now 🎵

6. Figure Robots Just Learned to Walk Better—See Them in Action

7. Meet Reve’s Halfmoon: Image Generation Like You’ve Never Seen

8. Gemini 2.5 Released—The AI Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For 🌟

11. Perplexity’s New “Answers” Feature—Instant Clarity for you

12. Nvidia Previews Groot N1 Foundation—And It is cute✨

AI is moving fast—make sure you stay ahead.

Best,

Renjit

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In this edition:

• Master Vibe Coding with AI: Boost Your Skills 🚀

• OpenAI Lands $40 Billion—Here’s Why It Matters

• Learn AI: Guidde generative AI platform that helps …

• If Studio Ghibli Made “Lord of the Rings”… 🎬✨

• Gemini 2.5 Released—The AI Upgrade You’ve Been Wai …

• Other useful AI news scoured for you from X /Twitt …

Master Vibe Coding with AI: Boost Your Skills 🚀

🚀 Vibe Coding 101 with Replit 🚀

🤔 What Is Vibe Coding?

Move beyond manual coding with the power of AI coding tools like Cursor, Replit, Vercel and so on. You feel like coding a new game? Fire up your friendly AI tool and just do it by prompting in English.

More often than not, the underlying model that is being widely used is Claude, although other LLMs are fast catching up.

“Vibe coding” helps you create software without coding skills. Effective vibe coding relies on structure, precision, and carefully crafted prompts.

🛠️Best Practice Approaches that are covered in the course:

- Break problems into clear modules
- Use precise, targeted prompts
- Test and debug incrementally

🎯 What You'll Learn:

- Core principles of agentic coding
- Maximizing Replit’s cloud IDE
- Building and deploying real applications

Start your vibe coding journey today at Deeplearning today ! Link» 

OpenAI Lands $40 Billion—Here’s Why It Matters

SoftBank’s $40 Billion Bet on OpenAI

Imagine investing $40 billion in one startup. That’s exactly what SoftBank is planning to do with OpenAI. Now, Softbank is no stranger to plonking large sums of money into single startups (remember WeWork and Uber?)

This huge investment would value OpenAI at about $260 billion, making it one of the most valuable tech companies around. The funding is still in the works and has not been confirmed.

Here’s what’s interesting:

📌 SoftBank’s $40 billion investment would make it the largest shareholder of OpenAI, even ahead of Microsoft.

OpenAI, known for tools like ChatGPT and Sora, has already received about $13 billion from Microsoft.

🚀 SoftBank’s money will help fund OpenAI’s new project called “Stargate,” a huge plan to spend up to $500 billion on AI infrastructure in the U.S. by 2029. Stargate is expected to create over 100,000 new jobs in America.

📌 Earlier this year, SoftBank and OpenAI started working together to build advanced AI products for businesses.

So what?

For startup founders and business leaders, this shows how serious big companies are about AI. Deepseek’s launch left us wondering if the big investments in AI are needed and if they will pay off.

Softbank does not seem to have any such concerns.

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If Studio Ghibli Made “Lord of the Rings”… 🎬✨

Open AI released its 4o model with advanced image creation capabilities and the Internet went nuts. Folks from Studio Ghibli are probably going to sue Open AI for copyright infringement. Here is a great example (X post below):

Gemini 2.5 Released—The AI Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For 🌟

Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro: A New Benchmark in AI Coding?

Google has released Gemini 2.5 Pro, an AI model that has received widespread acclaim for its advanced capabilities in coding and teaching. Users have praised its efficiency, speed, and insightful responses, positioning it as a significant advancement in AI technology.

Despite some critiques regarding its complexity and lack of personality, the model is generally seen as a breakthrough, with many users switching to it for its superior performance.

Gemini 2.5 Pro has already been integrated into various platforms like Cursor and Windsurf, indicating its broad acceptance and utility in the tech community. This is their most advanced model yet, and already #1 on the LMArena leaderboard.

So what?

It has great reasoning capabilities, 1M token context, and excels at coding, math, and science. 1M tokens? Yes you heard that right! Which could mean that it could consume your entire codebase and give you constructive feedback or add on to it.

This is significant but did not create as great a stir as OpenAI’s “Ghibli” release (see above). Google’s marketing engine needs to shape up!

Other useful AI news scoured for you from X /Twitter

1. Learn AI: Make show stopping YouTube thumbnails. If you have a YouTube channel this is going to be pretty useful : link

2. Timbaland releases his first AI powered Anime video. This is going to be a trend, I think: link

3. Figure Robots Just Learned to Walk Better—See Them in Action: link

4. Meet Reve’s Halfmoon: Image Generation Like You’ve Never Seen. Try it out for free at preview.reve.art 

5. Perplexity’s New “Answers” Feature—Instant Clarity, Powered by AI: link

6. Nvidia Previews Groot N1 Foundation—and It is cute: link

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