Alibaba ZeroSearch teaches AI without real search engines

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Here is what we have Today:

• ⚡ Mistral challenges OpenAI with Medium 3

• 💻 Google's secret Gemini 2.5 release - Early access revealed

• 📦 Amazon's robots can now "feel" your packages

• 🔍 ZeroSearch teaches AI without real search engines.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

Mistral

🧠 Mistral’s Medium 3: Big AI Power, Small Price Tag

French startup Mistral is shaking up the AI scene again — this time with Medium 3, a powerful new model that matches top-tier rivals like Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Llama 4 Maverick — while slashing costs by a whopping 8x.

And that’s not all.

They also unveiled Le Chat Enterprise, a sleek new AI platform built for the workplace.

🚀 What’s New?

📌 Medium 3 — A powerful AI model
✅ Matches or beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Llama 4
💰 8x cheaper than competitors
📊 Strong benchmark performance

🏢 Le Chat Enterprise

An AI platform built for business

📂 Integrates with:

• Google Drive

• SharePoint

• Internal document libraries

🤖 Features include:

• Custom AI agent builder

• Flexible deployments (cloud ☁️, private 🛡️, on-prem 🏢)

• Enterprise-grade privacy controls 🔐

🧩 Coming Soon…

📢 Mistral teases open-source release of its Large model
👀 Medium stays closed — but not for long?

⚠️ Why It Matters

✅ Enterprise-ready AI at a fraction of the cost
✅ Ideal for teams with tight budgets and strict data governance
🇪🇺 Especially relevant for organizations under EU privacy regulations

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Alibaba

🤖 Alibaba’s AI trains itself without ever Googling

AI just learned how to search without the internet.

Alibaba’s researchers rolled out ZeroSearch, a clever new technique that ditches real search engines altogether—and the results are impressive..

🚫 No Search Engine Needed

ZeroSearch — a method that teaches AI to find information without using real search engines.

💸 88% Cheaper

Instead of making pricey API calls to Google or Bing, ZeroSearch uses simulated search results created by a large language model.

🧠 Smarter Over Time

It starts with high-quality docs and gradually reduces their quality using a
“curriculum-based rollout strategy” — challenging the AI to refine its reasoning as it trains.

🏆 Just as Good (or Better!)

✅ Matched or outperformed search-trained models
✅ Cut training costs by nearly 90%
✅ Avoided messy, unpredictable web content

🌍 Why It Matters

Simulated data — like we’ve seen in robotics — is proving to be:
⚡ Effective
💰 Cost-efficient
🔧 More controllable

ZeroSearch could help smaller labs compete with big tech by breaking the cost barrier to advanced AI training.

🗣️ TL;DR

AI now teaches itself how to search — no Google, no Bing, just brains.

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• Amazon has introduced Vulcan, a new warehouse robot that can “feel” items using a touch-sensitive gripper. It can handle 75% of the 1 million unique products at Amazon’s Spokane facility, lifting up to 8 pounds and running 20 hours a day. Amazon says Vulcan won’t replace workers instead, it’ll free them up for higher-skilled roles

• Google has quietly released early access to Gemini 2.5 Pro, ahead of its planned debut at I/O. The new version brings major upgrades for coding tasks like building web apps, editing code, and creating agent workflows. It now tops the WebDev Arena Leaderboard and scored 84.8% on the VideoMME benchmark.

• Figma has announced Figma Make, a new AI-powered “vibe-coding” feature that automates website and app design. It’s built on Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet model and is currently in testing. When launched, it will cost $16 per user per month (billed annually) with no free tier.

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