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July 14, 2025

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  • 💰SpaceX to Invest $2 Billion Into Elon Musk's xAI

  • 🤖Meta acquires voice start-up Play AI

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Google is hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and several researchers in a $2.4B licensing deal, coming in the wake of the coding startup’s $3B acquisition deal with OpenAI collapsing over complications in its partnership with Microsoft. Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen will join Google to work on agentic coding for Gemini, with Windsurf remaining independent under an interim CEO.

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Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi-K2, a massive 1T parameter open-weights model that matches or beats frontier-level models across a range of benchmarks, with particular strength in coding and agentic tasks. K2 surpasses models like GPT-4.1 and Claude 4 Opus on coding benchmarks, also scoring new highs on math and STEM tests among non-reasoning systems.

SpaceX agreed to invest $2 billion into xAI as part of xAI's $5 billion equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month. This is not the first time Elon Musk has mobilized his business empire to boost the AI startup. More business partnerships between SpaceX and xAI are likely in the future. SpaceX recently had more than $3 billion in cash on hand - the company rarely makes investments in outside ventures.

Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase Play AI, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. The news organization says the "entire PlayAI team" is joining Meta next week, based on the internal memo it has seen.

OpenAI was riding high: $300B valuation, 500M weekly users, and the most hyped AI company on Earth. But now, the sharks are circling. Google, Meta, Amazon, even Microsoft, are applying pressure from every angle. What looked like dominance in March 2025 is now a messy battle to hold the throne.

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How to turn text into audio on your phone using AI

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  1. Download the app for Android or iOS and create an account.

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  3. The app lets you add content in three ways: select 'Write Text' to type or paste text, choose 'Paste Link' to convert a web page by entering its URL, or click 'Import File' to upload a file.

  4. You can also choose from a variety of voices. To change, click the 'Voices' button.

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