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AI weekly Roundup
03 Jul 2025
Breakthroughs in AI
  • Baidu open-sources ERNIE X1, a powerful LLM, enabling global developers to build customizable AI apps; China’s biggest AI release since DeepSeek.
  • Intellistack launches Streamline, an AI-powered no-code platform enabling secure, dynamic workflows without data storage, migration, or manual compliance work.
  • Google introduces Doppl, an AI try-on app that visualizes outfits on users with animated previews from photos or screenshots.
  • Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics On-Device, enabling robots to perform tasks locally using natural language prompts and SDK training.
  • Linux Foundation launches Agent2Agent (A2A), a cross-platform AI agent protocol backed by AWS, Google, Microsoft, and 100+ companies.
  • Dario’s AI engine predicts glucose with 89% accuracy and sustains post-GLP-1 outcomes, powering personalized chronic condition care.
Enterprise adoption and ecosystem shift
  • Walmart unveils AI tools for 1.5M store staff, integrating task automation, real-time translation, AR inventory checks, and GenAI-powered support workflows
  • Pfizer and XtalPi deepen collaboration to scale AI-driven molecular modeling, enhancing predictive accuracy and speed in small molecule discovery.
  • Domo expands Snowflake partnership, launching fully managed AI-powered analytics tools to streamline data integration, transformation, and enterprise-scale decision-making.
  • Mattel adds OpenAI's generative AI to toys, enabling real-time storytelling, language learning, and interactive, intelligent play experiences.
  • Apptronik launches Elevate Robotics to develop AI-powered industrial robots, focusing on mobile manipulation systems for high-performance, real-world automation.
  • Germany urges Apple, Google to delist DeepSeek over AI chatbot’s privacy violations and unlawful data transfers to China.
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