Google Announced an Initiative to Invest in AI Startups

Google announced its AI Futures Fund this month. The fund will invest in startups from seed to late-stage using AI tools developed by DeepMind, the company’s R&D lab. Google's support will also include early access to Google AI models from DeepMind, working with experts from DeepMind and Google Labs, and Cloud credits. Some startups will also have the opportunity to receive direct investment from Google. "When we come across companies that align with the fund’s thesis, we may choose to invest," said a Google representative. AI Futures Fund already has some case studies, such as the meme-making platform Viggle and the webtoon app Toonsutra. Over the past few months, Google has committed to supporting the next generation of AI talent and scientific breakthroughs. • In November 2024, Google.org, the company’s charitable wing, announced a $20 million cash commitment to researchers and scientists working in AI. • In September, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the company was creating a $120 million Global AI Opportunity fund to help bring AI education and training to more places worldwide. • Google.org also launched a $20 million generative AI accelerator program to cut checks to nonprofits developing AI tech. • Google for Startups Founders Fund supports founders from an array of industries and backgrounds building companies, including AI companies.

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Google Now Offers AI Mode to Every Search User In The U.S.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his executives presented at the company’s I/O 2025 event new ways to bring users the web intermediated through a series of AI agents, reviewing the concept of Search, based on bringing people from the web for any given search query. “We believe AI will be the most powerful engine for discovery that the web has ever seen,” said Google’s VP of Search, Liz Reid, onstage at I/O. Essentially, the company suggests that the future of the web, and the company, involves AI agents fetching information from the web and presenting it to users in whatever way they’d like. At the I/O 2025, the largest announcement was that Google now offers AI mode to every Search user in the U.S. Users will be able to converse with an AI agent that will visit web pages, do summaries, and help them shop. Google also announced on Tuesday that the SDK for Gemini models will now natively support Anthropic’s MCP, an increasingly popular standard for connecting agents to data sources across the internet. On Wednesday, Google detailed its plans to bring ads to AI Mode, which lets Google Search users ask a question and get an AI-generated response, with the ability to go deeper through follow-up questions and links to websites. Perplexity and several of Google’s rivals have experimented with ads in their AI products. Google official: 100 things we announced at I/O

Microsoft Announced the Multi-Agent Orchestration System During Its Build Conference

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled the company's biggest product moves, including Copilot and Azure updates, developer tools, and more, during this week's Build conference in Seattle. "We’ve entered the era of AI agents. Thanks to groundbreaking advancements in reasoning and memory, AI models are now more capable and efficient, and we’re seeing how AI systems can help us all solve problems in new ways," said Satya Nadella. As an example, the company mentioned that 15 million developers are already using GitHub Copilot, streamlining the way they code, check, deploy, and troubleshoot. Hundreds of thousands of customers are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to help research, brainstorm and develop solutions, and more than 230,000 organizations — including 90% of the Fortune 500 — have already used Copilot Studio to build AI agents and automations. The Multi-Agent Orchestration, or how multiple specialized AI agents work together to accelerate work, was one of the notorious announcements. Today, at Build we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere. Here are 5 big things we announced today: — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) May 19, 2025 One example was an onboarding process handled by several agents: one managed human resources paperwork, another set up IT accounts, and a third scheduled training sessions. Each agent handled its part and reported back, with the system summarizing the results for the user. In sales, one agent pulled CRM data, another drafted a proposal, and a third scheduled follow-ups in Outlook. Microsoft announced that it is moving toward an open, connected agent ecosystem, with Model Context Protocol (MCP), a protocol that lets agents securely access data and services across platforms, and NLWeb, a system that helps websites become accessible to AI agents via natural language. The goal is to create an environment where agents can collaborate and interact freely across the web and different apps, no matter who built them or where they run. Also, the company presented its Agent Store, a platform where users can access and deploy various AI agents, including those built by Microsoft and third-party developers, within the Microsoft 365 Copilot and other Microsoft services. These agents are designed to perform specific tasks, such as summarizing documents, generating code, or managing meetings, and can be customized for individual needs or business requirements. • Microsoft Build 2025: All the Announcements • Official summary Microsoft Build 2025 Keynote: Everything Revealed, in 14 Minutes Grok is coming to Azure Foundry! Thanks @elonmusk for joining us at Build to talk about what it means for devs. pic.twitter.com/8x7dmrsKSB — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) May 19, 2025 Thanks for joining us at Build, @sama! Enjoyed our conversation about SWE agents and how the role of developers is evolving. pic.twitter.com/piUVxNqTht — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) May 19, 2025 Great to have Jensen at Build to talk about our partnership and how we are building and scaling the largest AI supercomputer in the world on Azure. pic.twitter.com/hNgXJkVfJL — Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) May 19, 2025

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Traffic to ChatGPT.com hit a new all-time high of 780 million visits in the US

According to data from Similarweb, OpenAI’s ChatGPT.com chatbot received 780 million visits from American users in April, a 14% jump from March. However, according to the same firm, 780 million monthly visits are still far behind the 16 billion visits to Google.com. Google is racking 96 billion web searches per week, versus ChatGPT’s 1 billion. The top 10 websites receiving traffic from the leading GenAI tools ChatGPT: pic.twitter.com/EnHnMSiWep — Similarweb (@Similarweb) May 5, 2025

Figma Releases New AI Tools for Creating Sites, App Prototypes, and Drawing

Figma, a design company, announced multiple AI features this month, during its Config annual conference. These include an AI creator for powering website and app prototypes, a way to create assets in bulk, a new drawing tool, and a blog post generator. With this launch, the company is trying to compete with Canva, Adobe, WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Replit, Lovable, and Hostinger, among other firms. However, the company denies directly competing with these creative tools by saying that it is in the business of building digital products, with a third of the company’s users being developers. Figma also announced a new plan, a content seat, starting at $8 monthly. This plan will give users access to Figma Buzz, Slides, FigJam, and Sites CMS.

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