Google's AI Edge App, Samsung's Perplexity Deal, and LuminX's $5.5M Funding - Daily AI Brief #197

June 02, 2025 - Daily AI Brief
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Welcome to today's AI Brief. Google has introduced Gemini, a tool designed to summarize lengthy emails, enhancing user productivity. Meanwhile, Black Forest Labs has launched its Kontext AI Models, aiming to advance AI capabilities in various applications.

In other developments, Perplexity has unveiled Perplexity Labs for its Pro subscribers, offering new tools and resources. Additionally, Samsung is nearing a deal with Perplexity AI to integrate AI features into the upcoming Galaxy S26.

Top stories

Google's Gemini Summarizes Emails Automatically
Google's AI assistant, Gemini, now provides automatic summaries for long emails in Gmail, showing summary cards at the top of emails. This feature is currently available for English emails and can be toggled in settings. Read more
Black Forest Labs Launches Kontext AI Models
Black Forest Labs has introduced its new AI models, Flux.1 Kontext, designed for image generation and editing, offering high-quality results and fast processing. A model playground is also available for user testing without third-party sign-ups. Read more
Perplexity Introduces Perplexity Labs for Pro Subscribers
Perplexity has launched Perplexity Labs, a tool for Pro plan subscribers to generate reports, spreadsheets, and dashboards using AI. It is accessible on web, iOS, and Android, with future plans for Mac and Windows apps. Read more
Samsung Nears Deal with Perplexity AI for Galaxy S26
Samsung Electronics is reportedly close to finalizing a deal with Perplexity AI to integrate its search technology into future devices, including the Galaxy S26. This partnership could enhance Samsung's Bixby assistant and reduce reliance on Google. Read more
Alibaba Launches QwenLong-L1 for AI Reasoning
The Alibaba Group has introduced QwenLong-L1, a framework aimed at improving large language models' reasoning over long inputs, particularly for enterprise applications. Read more
Google Launches AI Edge Gallery App for Android
Google has introduced the Google AI Edge Gallery app, enabling users to execute AI models locally on Android devices. The app includes support for models from Hugging Face and offers offline capabilities for tasks such as image generation and code editing. Read more
Anthropic Open-Sources AI Interpretability Tools
Anthropic has released their circuit-tracing tools as open-source, enabling users to explore the decision-making processes of large language models through attribution graphs. Read more

Other news

TechCrunch critiques the anthropomorphism of AI and its job impact, while LuminX secures $5.5 million to enhance supply chain operations with AI. Investor Elad Gil focuses on AI rollups for business transformation, and the NAACP urges Memphis to halt xAI's Colossus data center operations. Mary Meeker releases a report on AI adoption, and PlanChecker AI launches for real estate compliance. Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet invest in AI for the cloud market, and Microsoft unveils WINA for efficient language model inference. Google launches LMEval for LLM evaluation, and IGNOU and IIT Bombay introduce an AI translation platform. Rhino Federated Computing raises $15 million for AI expansion, and EnCharge AI unveils the EN100 AI accelerator for laptops.

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