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🤖 Meta Wants Its AI to Remember Your Ex Too

Plus: OpenAI Restructures for Growth and Drops $3B on Coding Tool

May 08, 2025

Hello AI Enthusiast,

OpenAI's making big moves this month - restructuring their company to secure future funding while dropping $3 billion to acquire coding assistant Windsurf. Meanwhile, Meta's jumping into the AI race with a standalone app that promises to "get to know you" by tapping into your social media activity. From corporate shuffling to privacy questions, this week shows how the biggest AI players are positioning themselves for what comes next. Let's dive in.

The Big Picture 🔊

Meta Launches AI App with Cross-Platform Memory

Meta has released a standalone AI app powered by Llama 4 that remembers conversations and user preferences across devices. The app includes social features, serves as the companion for Meta's AI glasses, and offers enhanced voice capabilities in select countries. The system integrates with Meta's platforms and becomes more personalized by learning from user interactions.

James Varnham
James VarnhamCEO and Rainmaker

Meta's betting on personalization as their edge in a crowded AI market. By tapping into your social media activity, they can create an assistant that feels uniquely personal - referencing your relationships and interests in ways competitors can't.

The question is whether users will find an AI that knows their social connections helpful or just plain creepy. Recent concerns about AI attachment suggest this path might lead somewhere Meta hasn't fully thought through.

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OpenAI Restructures to Secure Future Funding

OpenAI is restructuring - their for-profit LLC will become a Public Benefit Corporation, while the nonprofit will maintain control and become a major shareholder. This change aims to simplify their capital structure, secure billions in funding for AI development, and provide resources for the nonprofit to support AI benefits across different communities.

Gianluca Mauro
Gianluca MauroFounder and AI Rockstar

The restructuring helps OpenAI distribute equity and secure huge investments, but Altman's confident AGI talk is what catches our eye.

His "I trust humanity" message feels oddly simplistic, and that pivot to "many great AGI companies" is quite the shift from their earlier sole-frontrunner positioning. As for open sourcing models? We'll believe it when we see it.

OpenAI Acquires Windsurf for $3B to Boost Coding Capabilities

OpenAI is buying Windsurf (formerly Codeium), an AI coding assistant, for $3 billion - triple its previous valuation. This marks OpenAI's largest acquisition and positions them to compete directly with GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools. Windsurf generates $40 million in annual revenue and will likely enhance OpenAI's coding capabilities alongside their new Codex CLI product.

Gianluca Belloni
Gianluca BelloniCMO and Marketing Nomad

The $3 billion Windsurf purchase (at triple its previous valuation!) highlights the heated AI coding race. OpenAI isn't just buying tech - they're acquiring scarce engineering talent and a loyal user base in one move.

With all major AI players rushing into dev tools, we're still waiting to see that first breakout product built entirely with AI-assisted coding.

Bits and Bobs 🗞️

  • OpenAI shared that a recent GPT-4o update unintentionally made the model more sycophantic and outlined steps to improve its alignment.

  • Claude now integrates with Zapier, Atlassian, and Intercom to streamline work and boost automation.

  • Anthropic has launched the AI for Science program, providing free API credits to researchers in biology and life sciences to accelerate scientific discoveries.

  • Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, an improved version of its AI model, featuring enhanced coding and web app building capabilities.

  • Hugging Face has introduced Open Computer Agent, a free AI tool for simple computer tasks.

  • Apple is teaming up with Anthropic to add Claude Sonnet to Xcode, automating coding with “vibe-coding” AI.

  • Microsoft Research Asia’s 2022 “Societal AI” workshop explored AI’s impact and ethical challenges.

  • Visa is partnering with OpenAI and Microsoft to link AI agents to its payment network, enabling automated, personalized shopping.

  • The US data center industry warns Trump’s renewable energy crackdown could raise costs, slow growth, and hurt the country’s AI competitiveness.

  • Amazon Q Developer boosts coding with clear suggestions, local integration, and multilingual chat, including Spanish.

From Our Founder’s Channels 🤳

Remember that GPT-4o sycophancy issue we covered last week? As mentioned in the Bits and Bobs OpenAI published a detailed explanation of what went wrong. Check out Gianluca's TikTok where he unpacks their admission.

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