Google launches AI travel features

• 1. ✈️ Google launches AI travel features
• 2. 📽️ In partnership with Guidde
• 3. 📏 Microsoft using DeepSeek as benchmark?
• 4. 🍟 OpenAI’s chips are melting
• 5. 💼 In partnership with Innovating with AI
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI Tools
• 7. 🏗️ Practical AI Applications
• 8. 📑 Recommended Resources

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Google launches AI travel features

🚨 Our Report 

Google has announced several new AI-powered features—across Search, Maps, and Gemini—that are designed to help users plan their vacations.

🔓 Key Points

• Users can ask Google’s AI Overviews to create an itinerary for a specific destination, and it’ll display day-to-day ideas, photos, maps, places to visit, where to eat, tips, etc.. which it will export into a Google Doc or email.

• Google is also making its Gems feature—which allows users to create custom AI experts—accessible for everyone, which means users can create an AI expert to help them pick a destination and know what to pack, etc…

• It’s also adding hotel price tracking, so users will get notified if their chosen hotel prices go down, and introducing a feature that turns saved screenshots about places to visit into saved locations in Google Maps.

🔐 Relevance 

These updates aim to help users plan their vacations quicker and easier than ever before, and it’s likely a strategic move by Google to stop people from using AI tools, like ChatGPT, to help plan travel itineraries, etc…

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🚨 Our Report

Following the viral launch of DeepSeek’s reasoning model R1 in January, which knocked ChatGPT off the top spot in the App Store, and became the #1 most downloaded tool, days after it launched, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, has reportedly told staff that R1 is “the new bar” for the company’s AI ambitions, and urged teams to match the speed of development and impact.

🔓 Key Points

• During an internal town hall meeting, Nadella hailed DeepSeek as “a great reminder of what 200 people can do when they come together with one thought and one play," using it as an example of execution, done right.

• He was blown away by DeepSeek’s ability to not just develop R1 as part of a research or an open source project, but to turn it into a #1 product in the App Store, establishing that it had “set a new bar” for him.

• This comes as Microsoft's own AI chatbot, Copilot, rarely makes it into the App Store’s top 100, even though Microsoft has access to OpenAI’s models and has given it major voice and vision updates.

🔐 Relevance

Nadella was quick to see DeepSeek’s R1 potential—recognizing that it was able to optimize performance using fewer AI chips, therefore, greatly improving efficiency—and swiftly deployed it onto Microsoft’s Azure platform, just weeks after it launched, and this internal pep talk comes after news that he’s committed $80B to AI initiatives, this year, and is developing a high-performance AI platform to reduce its reliance on OpenAI.

• Yesterday, OpenAI announced it was delaying the rollout of its “most advanced” image generator, following unexpectedly high demand, partly thanks to the viral Studio Ghibli images users have been generating.

• Now, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted that he’s been forced to put a limit on the number of images users can generate using the tool because the AI chips powering it “are melting”

• Although he didn’t specify what the limit was, he did say the restriction “hopefully” wouldn’t be in place for long as they’re working on improving the model’s efficiency and ability to handle the large volume of requests.

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