Major trends in artificial intelligence, May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025
Major trends in artificial intelligence, May 20, 2025
Rédigé par Naomie Halioua
🌟 Choose France 2025: Record $37 Billion and a Mega AI Campus

A historic summit where Emmanuel Macron not only gathered 200 top international business leaders with over 50 investment projects, but also announced a strategic joint venture among MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI, and NVIDIA to create the largest AI campus in Europe.
A 1.4-gigawatt AI campus in Île-de-France, set to be operational by 2028.
Key Partners: MGX (UAE), Bpifrance, Mistral AI, NVIDIA
France, a land of creativity
🧠 AlphaEvolve: Google DeepMind's New AI Agent Revolutionizes Algorithm Creation

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEvolve, an AI agent powered by Gemini that can design and optimize complex algorithms, creating substantial savings for the company.
Groundbreaking Innovation: A coding agent capable of enhancing entire algorithms.
Tangible Impact: Optimization of Google’s data centers and TPU chips.
Performance: 23% speed boost in Gemini's training kernels.
💼 Microsoft Lays Off 6000 Employees Despite Record Profits

The American giant announces a new round of layoffs affecting 3% of its global workforce, aiming to flatten organizational layers and optimize structure to further invest in AI.
6000 jobs cut across all sectors and countries
$25.8 billion in net profit last quarter
Simplification of management structure
💡 TensorWave Raises $100 Million to Challenge Nvidia’s Monopoly

The American startup closes a Series A funding to deploy a massive cluster of AMD GPUs in hopes of offering an alternative to Nvidia chips that currently dominate the AI market.
Round co-led by Magnetar and AMD Ventures
Planned deployment of 8192 AMD MI325X GPUs
Optimized liquid cooling architecture
🛒 Perplexity Teams Up with PayPal to Revolutionize Conversational Commerce

The AI search engine Perplexity will integrate PayPal and Venmo payment services directly into its chats, enabling users to make purchases without leaving the interface. 450 billion: number of AI processes handleable daily.
Available in the U.S. this summer
Shopping, travel bookings, and tickets directly in the chat
“Agentic” commerce where AI manages the entire purchasing process
💡 And you, what do you think of these developments? Business opportunities or an overwhelming future of AI in our interactions?
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