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TLDR AI 2026-02-05

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01GENERAL

02HEADLINES & LAUNCHES

GOOGLE'S GEMINI APP HAS SURPASSED 750M MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS

Google Gemini has surpassed 750 million monthly active users. The AI chatbot has quickly become a prominent player in the AI space. It had 650 million monthly active users last quarter. In comparison, MetaAI has reported nearly 500 million monthly users, and ChatGPT had an estimated 810 million monthly active users in late 2025.

techcrunch.com2 min read

03DEEP DIVES & ANALYSIS

INSIDE THE CODEX APP SERVER

OpenAI detailed the architecture of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional JSON-RPC API layer powering Codex across platforms, offering tips for integrating coding agents into real workflows.

links.tldrnewsletter.com22 min read

KIMI K2.5

Kimi K2.5 is a solid model and exceeds expectations. It is likely now the leading open weights model. The model is excellent given its price. It is an excellent choice for developers who can't afford or don't want to pay for Opus 4.5 and have to go with something cheaper to run their OpenClaw.

thezvi.wordpress.com17 min read

AI IS FINALLY EATING SOFTWARE'S TOTAL MARKET: HERE'S WHAT'S NEXT

AI's rise is shrinking the software market, causing unpredictability for SaaS companies. Key players like Salesforce and SAP are integrating AI functionality into popular platforms to adapt, while weaker firms face potential obsolescence. Success hinges on owning intent gateways and effectively leveraging AI for outcomes, positioning few companies to thrive amid industry-wide disruption.

vinvashishta.substack.com10 min read

04ENGINEERING & RESEARCH

MISTRAL INTRODUCES VOXTRAL TRANSCRIBE 2

Mistral's Voxtral Transcribe 2 is a pair of next-gen speech-to-text models, including a real-time version with open weights that delivers sub-200ms latency and low-cost, high-accuracy transcription across 13 languages.

mistral.ai3 min read

CLAUDE AND CODEX ARE NOW AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC PREVIEW ON GITHUB

Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available for Copilot Pro+ and Enterprise customers on GitHub in public preview. Users can start sessions and assign tasks to these coding agents from the web, mobile app, or VS Code without additional subscriptions. All agent actions, like drafting pull requests and task prioritization, can be managed through GitHub's existing infrastructure.

github.blog4 min read

WINDSURF TAB V2: 25-75% MORE ACCEPTED CODE WITH VARIABLE AGGRESSION

Windsurf's Tab feature was very well received, but it wasn't well maintained after launch. The team has now significantly improved the underlying model and context/data engineering pipeline. This has led to direct Pareto improvements across all of Windsurf's metrics, with an average 54% increase in characters per predict. Tab now uses variable aggression to tailor the experience to each user's preferences.

windsurf.com7 min read

05MISCELLANEOUS

OWNING A $5M DATA CENTER

comma has been running its own data center for years. All of the company's model training, metrics, and data live inside its own data center in its own office. This post describes how comma's data center works. It is aimed at inspiring other companies to build their own data centers too.

blog.comma.ai7 min read

WHY NVIDIA BUILDS OPEN MODELS WITH BRYAN CATANZARO

Nvidia's focus on building open models, spearheaded by efforts like the Nemotron 3 Nano release, positions it uniquely to enhance both its product offerings and the AI ecosystem. Open model development aids Nvidia in understanding compute-heavy AI workloads, which informs their hardware and software design, while fostering greater community collaboration. Nvidia distinguishes itself by emphasizing open data and models to drive AI infrastructure, benefiting businesses without AI acting as an overarching monopolistic event.

interconnects.ai64 min read