AI Updates on 2025-05-19

Microsoft announced that xAI's Grok is coming to Azure, confirming earlier rumors @satyanadella @xai
Meta released UMA (Universal Model for Atoms), a machine learning interatomic potential trained on over 30 billion atoms for molecular chemistry @AIatMeta
Meta also released Open Molecules 2025 (OMol25), a new Density Functional Theory dataset for molecular chemistry @AIatMeta

DeepSeek released a comprehensive paper on large model training covering software, hardware, and mixed approaches - described as "the single best end-to-end paper on large model training" @deedydas
Stanford NLP Group launched Marin, an open lab focused on truly open-source AI with open development where the entire research process is public and anyone can contribute @stanfordnlp
Researchers released LEXam, a legal reasoning benchmark with 4,586 exam questions from Swiss, EU & international law, evaluating 20+ state-of-the-art LLMs @huggingface
MIT researchers developed an AI model that can predict the location of virtually any protein within a human cell by training it with joint understanding of protein and cell behavior @MIT

Microsoft introduced Magentic-UI, an open-source research prototype of a human-centered AI agent designed to work with people to complete complex web-based tasks in real time @MSFTResearch
Microsoft announced GitHub Copilot coding agent, evolving from pair programmer to peer programmer that can autonomously complete tasks like bug fixes and new features @satyanadella
Microsoft revealed Copilot Tuning which allows companies to train Copilot on their unique tone and language @satyanadella @Microsoft
Microsoft launched Healthcare Agent Orchestrator to bring AI capabilities into healthcare systems' existing enterprise software @MSFTResearch
Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Discovery, a platform that uses AI agents to generate ideas, simulate results, and learn for scientific research @satyanadella
Google released the NotebookLM mobile app for Android with iOS coming soon @sundarpichai @TechCrunch
GenSpark AI Sheets allows users to talk to their spreadsheets, automatically analyzing data and building reports and visualizations @fchollet
Overlap is an autonomous agent that creates viral clips from any video and posts them to social media @ycombinator
Hugging Face integrated MLX LM directly within their platform, allowing Mac owners to run 4,400+ LLMs locally on Apple Silicon @huggingface

Microsoft is open sourcing Copilot for VS Code, which makes VS Code more dominant as forks cannot access the VS Code marketplace @GergelyOrosz
Microsoft announced NLWeb, a new open project that lets users interact with any website using natural language, described as "HTML for the agentic web" @satyanadella
Waymo is now doing more rides than Lyft in San Francisco with only 300 vehicles compared to Lyft's 45,000 drivers - each Waymo is doing more rides than 150 human drivers @paulg
Dell is partnering with Cohere to offer Cohere North, a secure agents platform, to enterprises on-premises, which is crucial for regulated industries handling sensitive data @cohere
Meta CTO describes AI agent "failures" as valuable demand signals that reveal real user intent and opportunities for developers @a16z

AI Now Institute is launching a roadmap for local action regarding AI's impact on cities, addressing concerns about public services cuts, surveillance, and power reallocation to tech companies @AINowInstitute
Trump signed a bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakes @TechCrunch