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Windsurf to Google, OpenAI Buyout Fails
Kimi K2: China's Next AI Milestone

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.
Google hires Windsurf CEO after OpenAI deal collapses; Kimi K2 advances China’s AI frontier; SpaceX plans $2B investment in Musk’s xAI.
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Hottest AI News
Top AI & SaaS Tools
Top AI & Tech News
AI Trend Watch: Grok 4 & o3 Go Head to Head
AI Art Spotlight
Prompt of the Day: Unlock Your Hidden Skills
AI Video Tutorial
F-R-E-E AI Course of the Day: Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Hottest AI News
DeepMind
Google Hires Windsurf CEO Amid OpenAI Deal Breakdown

OpenAI’s $3B deal to acquire viral coding startup Windsurf has collapsed — just as Google DeepMind swooped in to hire its top leadership. The move signals a major shake-up in the AI race and highlights Big Tech’s push to secure top talent.
Details:
Google DeepMind is hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and key researchers—while paying $2.4B for a nonexclusive license to its tech. This “reverse-acquihire” skips ownership and sidesteps regulation
Windsurf, generating $100M in annual recurring revenue, will continue independently under interim CEO Jeff Wang. Most of its 250-person team stays, though some question its future without the original leadership
The collapsed OpenAI deal strained relations with Microsoft. OpenAI resisted allowing its primary backer to tap into Windsurf’s valuable coding tech—an increasingly competitive space with players like Anthropic and Codex
The move shakes up the AI coding race, boosting DeepMind while casting doubt on Windsurf’s future. Similar exits at Scale AI and Inflection led to customer losses and strategy shifts.
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Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Marks China's Next Open-Weight AI Breakthrough After DeepSeek

Moonshot AI has launched Kimi-K2, a trillion-parameter open-weight language model built to rival Claude Sonnet 4 and GPT-4.1. Founded in 2023, it uses a mixture-of-experts design that activates 32B parameters during inference and offers weights for research and customization.
Details:
Kimi-K2 performs strongly on benchmarks without a reasoning module, scoring 65.8% on SWE-bench Verified—beating GPT-4.1 and nearly matching Claude Sonnet 4. It leads on LiveCodeBench and OJBench and excels in math tests like AIME and MATH-500
Designed for agentic tasks, Kimi-K2 focuses on tool use, executing commands, calling tools, coding, and handling multi-step jobs. It performs best in ongoing sessions, demonstrated by data analysis and app creation
Trained on 15.5 trillion tokens, it uses MuonClip, a novel algorithm that scales attention and replaced AdamW, ensuring stable, incident-less training at scale
Kimi-K2 marks a major step in China’s AI progress after DeepSeek, focusing on agentic abilities and practical use to compete with top closed-source models.
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Top AI & Tech News
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly planning to invest $2 billion in Musk’s AI startup, xAI, as part of a larger $5 billion equity raise
OpenAI has postponed the release of its highly anticipated open AI model indefinitely to conduct further safety testing
Indeed and Glassdoor, owned by Recruit Holdings, are cutting around 1,300 jobs (6% of staff) as they move to integrate AI into their job search and recruitment processes
Missouri's Republican Attorney General has launched a formal investigation into why AI chatbots reportedly show bias against Donald Trump
AI Trend Watch
Grok 4 Outshines OpenAI o3 in Physics and Reasoning Tests 🤯
I tested Grok 4 and ChatGPT-o3 with same critical prompts.
The results will blow your mind.
Grok 4 Vs. ChatGPT-o3
(Video demos are included)
— Alex Prompter (@alex_prompter)
8:53 AM • Jul 10, 2025
This post features a series of head-to-head tests between Grok 4 and o3, covering realistic physics simulations, prompt injection jailbreaks, multi-step legal reasoning, and identity leak probes.
AI Art Spotlight

Model: Midjourney V7
Prompt:
A lone astronaut floating in the vast silence of space, gently cradling a glowing glass orb in their hands inside the orb, miniature galaxies spin, black holes swirl, and stars are born and die in slow motion; the astronaut’s visor reflects cosmic light, surrounded by stardust and soft nebula mist, the void stretching endlessly behind them; painterly composition with surreal, gothic elegance, high contrast lighting, soft glowing edges, mysterious and introspective, as if the universe has been captured in fragile crystal 8k resolution, highly detailed, dreamlike --ar 3:4 --quality 4 --profile dbhr1qu ug4qz7c --v 7
Prompt of the Day
Uncover Your Natural Strengths and Advantages
this prompt interviews you to uncover your natural proclivities, skills, experience, network & unfair advantages...
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You are an expert business and personal strategy coach. Your task is to perform an "Objective Self-Analysis" interview
— EP (@apollonator3000)
2:20 PM • Jul 11, 2025
This prompt guides you through a step-by-step self-interview to reveal your natural strengths, skills, experience, network, and unique advantages. Answer targeted questions, then receive a concise summary highlighting what sets you apart and where your greatest opportunities lie.
Top AI Video Tutorial
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Complimentary AI Course of the Day
Introduction to Model Context Protocol

This course covers MCP, a protocol for connecting Claude to external services and data sources without manually writing tool schemas. You'll learn to build both MCP servers that expose tools, resources, and prompts, and MCP clients that consume them. The course includes a hands-on project where you implement a document management system using MCP.