Welcome, humans.

Robots are so back—Boston Dynamics, the godfathers of the modern humanoid robot movement, are making some exciting moves. The company is teaming up with their former CEO Marc Raibert to make Atlas (the parkour bot) even smarter.

The partnership with Raibert's RAI Institute will focus on making Atlas better at learning through trial and error (reinforcement learning) just like us humans. Think: running faster and lifting heavier things without falling over.

It’s like hitting the robot gym, except instead of pumping iron to build muscle mass, Atlas will be getting its reps in to build brain power. If only our human gym sessions made us smarter instead of just sore!

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• Google goes all out with releasing Gemini 2.0.

• Amazon could release genAI Alexa by end of February.

• AI legend Andrej Karpathy dropped an epic AI explainer.

• Researchers found a life-saving treatment for iMCD with AI.

Google’s new AI models are here—and here’s how you can use them…

Maybe it was in response to the stock drop. Maybe it was in response to o3-mini, or R1, or, more likely, both. It could have even been planned well in advance.

Whatever the reason, Google launched its new AI models yesterday, which we’ll affectionately call “Gemini 2.0 (but for real this time).”

The lineup includes three new Gemini models:

• Gemini 2.0 Flash: The “workhorse model”, now generally available.

• Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: A new budget-friendly option that makes AI more accessible.

• Gemini 2.0 Pro: Google’s “most powerful model yet”, perfect for coding and complex tasks.

The standout updates? Better performance at lower costs (they eliminated the pricing difference between short and long prompts), plus some serious technical upgrades:

• A massive 2-million token context window for 2.0 Pro.

• Built-in tool use (like Google Search integration).

• Multimodal capabilities for understanding images, video, and audio.

Google’s experimental “thinking” model apparently got an upgrade too, scoring 73.3% on AIME (a notoriously difficult math competition) and 74.2% on GPQA Diamond (complex science questions).

To actually use these models, you have multiple choices:

• Use the Gemini app.

• Use Google AI studio.

Why are there two options? Because… why not? The thinking probably is Gemini = the normie app and AI studio = for the nerds.

Where this is all headed: Google search becoming an agent instead of a platform. That’s right—on yesterday's earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai laid out Google’s vision for 2025 as “one of the biggest years for search innovation yet.” Think less “ten blue links” and more “AI assistant that browses the web for you.”

The plan includes three major initiatives:

• Deep Research: An AI agent that creates detailed research reports, automating what people typically do manually with Search (here now).

• Project Mariner: A system that can navigate websites for users, potentially changing how we interact with the web entirely (like OpenAI’s Operator).

• Project Astra: Google’s multimodal AI that can process live video and answer questions in real-time (potentially powering AR glasses someday).

And Google knows it needs to move fast—one, so it doesn’t kill its search business without a good backup, and two, so it doesn’t lose anymore key talent.

Just look at NotebookLM: despite being one of Google's most successful AI products, Microsoft just managed to poach the team behind its popular “Audio Overview” feature (the DIY AI podcast one). Some of these same folks also worked on Project Astra. Ouch. 

This obviously has massive implications for businesses that rely on SEO. If (more like when*) bots do all the searching, any added time spent clicking on extra links will literally cost users money. Making info easy to find fast (i.e., bot-friendly) could be key.

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Level up your AI in 2025, Part 3: LLM Deep Dive.

Want to understand what actually happens when you hit “send” on ChatGPT? Andrej Karpathy, one of the world's leading AI researchers, takes you under the hood of large language models in this comprehensive but accessible deep dive for general audiences.

Don’t worry—you don't need a PhD to follow along. Whether you're a developer looking to better understand the tools you're using, or just someone curious about how AI assistants actually work, this video gives you the mental models to understand both the magic and limitations of modern AI.

P.S: The video is 3 hours long, and an AMAZING resource. We’re going to dive more in depth on this tomorrow!

Treats To Try.

1. ImageFX is Google’s image lab that lets you test its Imagen 3 image model with easy to apply style filters like 35mm film, sketchy, abstract, or charcoal—and totally free btw. Pro tip: test the base prompt it provides by just hitting tab.

2. DeepSeek-VL2 Small is a small model from DeepSeek with a new demo available to try—apparently they released this on Hugging Face 2 months ago, and now could be preparing a reasoning version.

3. Airtop lets you control web browsers with words instead of code to make automations.

4. Jump helps wealth advisors turn client meetings into organized notes and tasks automatically.

5. A0dev generates complete mobile apps from your text description.

6. Pressdeck builds you a searchable press website in seconds, replacing messy PDF press kits and shared folders.

7. ISSEN helps you master any language through real-time conversations with a tutor available whenever you want (demo).

See our top 51 AI Tools for Business here!

Around the Horn.

• Amazon will reportedly preview the revamped genAI Alexa at an event in New York on February 26th—it can apparently handle multiple commands in a row, and will either be available for free to a limited group or could cost ~$10/month.

• Workday laid off 1,750 employees and said it will be “prioritizing innovation investments like AI and platform development.”

• Researchers used an AI tool to uncover a life-saving medication for a rare disease (iMCD) after combing through 4K existing medications.

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Thursday Trivia

One is a real image, and one is AI. Which is which? (vote below!).

A.

B.

Here are the results from last week’s poll:

Here’s what you said:

• B.P. chose A: “Although AI usually gets fingers on hands wrong, I think B is AI because it seems too uniform for cave art.”

• A.S. chose B: “A few of the handprints are distorted. They're not consistent with the overall image.”

• C.F. chose A: “It's literally a xenomorph lol. I don't think our ancestors were cave-painting the antagonist from the hit sci-fi/horror movie "Alien" but I've been wrong before.”

A Cat's Commentary.

Trivia answer: B is AI. But after yesterday’s article, are you surprised?