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Google's in AI Mode

Google's in AI Mode

Another ChatGPT challenger is here

March 07, 2025

Welcome back! The Turing Award winners just called out the AI industry: Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton, the minds behind reinforcement learning, said AI companies are moving too fast. Barto put it bluntly: “It’s like building a bridge and testing it by having people walk across it.”

Are tech firms engineering intelligence, or building without guardrails?

Google’s AI Mode makes search feel more human

Via Adweek

This week, Google launched AI Mode, a new search experience that lets users ask multi-step questions and follow-ups. It’s powered by Gemini 2.0 and is rolling out to Google One AI Premium users now.

This isn’t just a feature. It’s Google’s play to keep AI search dominance against mounting competition from Perplexity and ChatGPT Search.

The big picture: Search is evolving from a tool that finds answers to one that thinks along with you.

A startup just crushed GPT-4o in accuracy

Contextual AI’s new grounded language model (GLM) outperformed OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic on factual accuracy.

Here’s the breakdown:

88% on the FACTS benchmark, vs. 78.8% for GPT-4o and 84.6% for Gemini 2.0 Flash
Unlike general AI models, GLM is built for regulated industries like finance and healthcare—where getting things wrong isn’t an option.

The big picture: AI’s biggest weakness has been hallucinations. The more accurate it gets, the more industries across the economy will trust it.

Amazon is all-in on AI agents

Amazon just created a dedicated AWS division for agentic AI, according to an internal email seen by Reuters. The goal? Build AI that acts autonomously, instead of just responding to prompts.

Why it matters: This follows Amazon’s move to make Alexa more proactive, reinforcing its push to be a leader in AI-driven automation. AI isn’t just getting smarter—it’s getting a mind of its own, and Amazon wants to be at the forefront of that movement.

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SEO on autopilot

Postwhale

Postwhale automates keyword research, content writing, and publishing, so you can grow traffic without a marketing team.

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A browser that curates the internet for you

Surf

Surf lets you run web agents that can search, analyze, and interact with websites—just like a human would.

Ways to use it:

Have an agent compare flight prices or find trade-in values across multiple sites.
Get AI to pull the top stories from your favorite news sites, summarize them, and send you the highlights.
Instead of opening 20 tabs, tell Surf to research a topic and compile the most relevant sources.

Pricing: Free