Nvidia has purchased high-end AI chip startup Groq for $20B Nvidia’s largest acquisition to date absorbs a future competitor in Groq and sets it up to compete with the Google TPU Jensen Huang gets his big Christmas gift

Merry Christmas! The AI companies have left us lots of presents under the Christmas tree this year Let’s take a look at what all we got:

Nano banana 2 Flash has been spotted The faster, cheaper AI image model from Google DeepMind was found in Flowith Are you excited for NB2F?

Does Claude Code with Claude Opus 4.5 fit your definition of AGI?

Meta has acquired Manus The Llama creator has acquired Manus, an AI company from Singapore, that has one of the most impressive agent harnesses in the industry A significant acquisition for Mark Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang

Google DeepMind leaker leo 🐾 confirms we will see a new Gemini 3.0 checkpoint in January We will see an updated version of Google’s frontier AI and an additional release this month Are you excited for new AI releases?

2026 is the year we see continual learning solved Google DeepMind and Anthropic both already have early versions of this, OpenAI is likely not far behind This is the first year in which AI will truly change the lives of 8 billion people

- local llms 101 - running a model = inference (using model weights) - inference = predicting the next token based on your input plus all tokens generated so far - together, these make up the "sequence" - tokens ≠ words - they're the chunks representing the text a model sees -