Top Model Drops
Mistral 3: New reasoning king (41% Humanity’s Last Exam, 45% ARC-AGI-2)
Gemini 3 Deep Think: Live for Ultra users, crushes multimodal reasoning
Grok 5: Teased for early 2026, full architecture overhaul
Voice & Creation
Microsoft: 0.5B real-time voice model (edge-ready)
Alibaba & ByteDance: Hyper-realistic TTS + visual-aware ASR
Meituan LongCat: Long-form video/image generation
Business & Reality Check
Azure AI growth rumors denied, but memory/GPU prices exploding
Vistra (nuclear for data centers) + BigBear.ai surging on AI infra bets Big Picture
Reasoning models now 30× more power-hungry
Bill Gates: AI vaccines for HIV/malaria first to poorest
Decentralized AI & wearables rising; courts push back on AI in law/kids
Bottom line: We’re past hype—2025 is the year of brutal energy bills, supply crunches, and real deployment wars.