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Every chip designer will have a thousand AI agents, says Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang sees great opportunities for AI agents in chip design. (Picture: screenshot)

Nvidia is already known for leading the charge in chip design for AI applications, and CEO Jensen Huang has a few bold ideas about where agentic AI is taking us.

In a May 15 on-stage interview with Cadence CEO Anirudh Devgan at CadenceLIVE 2025, Huang reflected on the future of chip design—and offered a glimpse into how cutting-edge companies are thinking about AI’s next phase.

Much like software engineers today increasingly rely on AI coding tools—and soon, autonomous agents—Huang envisions every chip and systems engineer being supported by “assistant chip designers” that help with everyday tasks:

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OpenAI debuts Codex, an AI coding agent, further disrupting the software industry

Codex can run your code multiple times until it finds the best version. — Codex can run your code multiple times until til finds the best version. (Picture: OpenAI)

In a world where 30% of Big Tech code is written by AI already, OpenAI says it wants to join the club for «virtual teammates,» and it’s getting ever closer with today’s launch.

OpenAI’s Agents Research Lead, Josh Tobin tells TechCrunch that the company wants software agents to complete tasks autonomously that would otherwise take hours or days to finish, in anything from one to thirty minutes, and OpenAI is already using the model to offload repetitive tasks.

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Meta delays flagship Behemoth model due to performance issues

Prescient words from Facebook's developer conference in 2017. — Prescient words from Meta’s developer conference in 2017. (Picture: Anthony Quintano (CC BY 2.0))

The 2 trillion parameter model was teased at the launch of Llama 4 in early April, and was slated for a release at the LlamaCon, Meta’s AI developer conference in late April.

Now it seems following internal dismay at the model’s performance, it was delayed until June, and has just been postponed again until sometime in the fall or later, writes Reuters.

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Google unveils AlphaEvolve, an AI model for algorithm discovery

Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve can even improve on its own hardware. — Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve can even improve on itself. (Picture: Google)

The model is already at work and producing savings internally at Google, having discovered more efficient algorithms and better hardware solutions.

— AlphaEvolve is a Gemini-powered AI coding agent that is able to make new discoveries in computing and mathematics, says Matej Balog, a researcher at Google DeepMind, to VentureBeat.

Google doesn’t say when the model will be available to the general public, but is planning on working with certain scientists and is «exploring» a broader release.

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ChatGPT 4.1 now available in the app and web

OpenAIs coding model was launched in the API only on April 14th, and reduced costs compared to GPT 4.5.

It also comes with a large context window of 1 million «tokens.» These are compute units that roughly translates to 750,000 words — so this model can read and output very large files or codebases.

It should be available under the model selector menu by clicking on «More models.»

UPDATE: It seems that without announcement of fanfare, free users on ChatGPT.com now get 4.1-mini as the new default model, a step up from the previous 4o-mini.

Despite some reports, GPT-4.1 does not appear to be the default for paid users—ChatGPT Plus still opens with GPT-4o as standard

By popular request, GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today.

GPT-4.1 is a specialized model that excels at coding tasks & instruction following. Because it’s faster, it’s a great alternative to OpenAI o3 & o4-mini for everyday coding needs.

— OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 14, 2025

Read more: OpenAI’s model release notes, Ars Technica bemoans model confusion, Teknotum on the 4.1 launch.

Google is testing «AI Mode» directly on the front page

Google is experimenting with replacing the "I'm Feeling Lucky"-button with "AI Mode." — Can you spot the difference? Google is experimenting with a change on the front page. (Picture: screenshot)

Replacing the time honored «I’m Feeling lucky,» select users now see «AI Mode» instead.

By doing this, albeit in their Labs section, Google shows they are considering using some of the most valuable screen real estate on the planet to further promote its Gemini AI models.

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UN meets on rules for autonomous AI weapons

The AI-powered XQ58-Valkyrie flies alongside us fighter jets. — Autonomous systems pose a challenge to the rules of war, and the UN is trying to reach an agreement. (Picture. Department of Defence)

As more and more AI robots and drones are deployed to the battlefields of the world, the talks are taking on a new urgency.

The UN Secretary General has set a deadline for 2026 to reach an agreement on so-called «killer robots,» while great powers resist.

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Apple says considering AI search in Safari, but «not good enough yet»

Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused. (Picture: Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0)

In the Google antitrust remedies trial, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said they are «actively looking at» using AI search tools in Safari, writes Gizmodo.

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Google drops new Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview, says it excels at coding

Google wants their new Gemini model to be the «go-to model» for devs. (Picture: Google)

The Lmarena leaderboard has a new top contender, after Google launched its new, most advanced reasoning model last night.

Google touts it as especially good for developers, improving on what many felt was already the best coding model.

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OpenAI scraps for-profit structure, but keeps door open for investments

OpenAIs new structure opens for more investors, but keeps ideological nonprofit in charge. (Image: Justin Jay Wang + DALL·E, for OpenAI)

OpenAI is not changing to a for-profit company after all, they revealed last night. Instead, they are making minor adjustments to the corporate structure to welcome more investment.

This means changing the structure of it’s operational, for profit Limited Liability Company (LLC) to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) that will be controlled by it’s non-profit entity intended to «ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,» OpenAI writes in a blog post.

A Public Benefit Corporation is a profit-based company that legally commits to both profit and purpose — like «advancing AI for all» — and must consider that mission alongside shareholder value. It also has to publish a yearly «public benefit» report. It’s essentially a mission-specific corporate vehicle.

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Judge in Meta’s copyright case questions fair use defense

A judge finds scant evidence for fair use by Meta. (Picture: Jeroen van Luin, CC BY 2.0)

In a hearing for summary judgment in the case where a group of authors sued Meta for copyright infringement, the judge seemed to side with the authors, but also said they needed to make a clearer case of actual harm, writes Ars Technica.

The case revolves around whether AI companies like Meta can use copyrighted works in the training of their models, which they claim is fair use, while the authors seek damages and compensation for the fact that they copied all of their work without authorization.

The case could upend the entire AI market, and Meta fears it would make them less competitive should they lose.

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Clarifying Apple’s tariff exposure

When Apple’s Tim Cook said tariffs would cost $900 million this quarter, it brought on some confusion. Weren’t Apple devices exempted, after all?

With the 145% tariffs imposed on goods imported from China, Apple was facing steep cost increases and would likely have had to drastically increase prices on its product offerings.

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Google’s AdSense experimenting with AI chatbots

Google's Adsense is expanding into "converstional ai." — The era of free AI chats may be coming to an end, with google experimenting with ads. (Picture: Google)

The internet display ad behemoth is moving with the times, as the AI industry seeks to monetize. It’s likely only a question of time before we get ads in Gemini.

AdSense apparently began experimenting with ads for AI chatbots, or, as they call it «conversational AI,» in chatbots iAsk and Liner, according to Bloomberg, which is paywalled.

Just a test?
SEO roundtable quotes Bloomberg as saying that AdSense had «expanded to include conversations with chatbots operated by AI startups.»

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Wikipedia to use AI — to augment editors, not content

Ai on wikipedia? To automate "tedious tasks," not for writing. — The Wikimedia foundation sees use for AI in translating articles. (Picture: Wikimedia)

The recent strategy on AI use at Wikipedia primarily focuses on making the editing and writing process easier by automating «tedious tasks.» And they won’t use AI to produce content, with one major caveat.

— The community of volunteers behind Wikipedia is the most important and unique element of Wikipedia’s success, the document begins.

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Big Tech embraces AI coding, hitting 30% of software

Major big tech businesses are doing substantial amounts of AI coding. — Gemini 2.5 Pro opens even more avenues for coding, says Alphabet. They are taking that to heart. (Picture: Google)

With Satya Nadella’s announcement overnight that Microsoft uses AI to code around 30% of their software, AI coding has come of age. Other Big Tech companies have also reported similar numbers lately.

— I’d say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software, said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during a conversation at LlamaCon, Meta’s AI developer conference, according to CNBC

Microsoft says they have made progress with Python, and less with C++ projects, but he is still pointing that some projects could be entirely written by AI.

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