May was again very busy in AI. New models appeared, tools for developers improved, and it continued to get faster and cheaper. We're seeing a shift towards more efficient architectures, more capable models, and greater availability.
As we do every month, we've picked out the highlights and summarised what we think resonated the most in AI.
Release Claude 4
- It comes in two models Sonnet, faster and cheaper, and Opus with better reasoning capabilities.
- In our experience, it is currently the best for programming.
- Still, in some benchmarks it doesn't perform at its best
- Useful resources:
Artificial Analysis released a report on the state of AI models
- This is a great summary even for those who don't do AI on a daily basis.
- For example, the main outputs are as follows:
- most models are moving to MoE architecture
- the gap between open-source and closed-source models continues to narrow
- most models already handle reasoning
- progress in model efficiency and speed continues
- the growing potential of Chinese AI models
- Useful resources:
Google I/O Conference
- Developer's conference, where for example the new version of Gemini 2.5 Flash was presented. This version is very interesting especially in its price, performance and speed ratio.
- It is equal in performance to GPT 4.1, but is currently 3 times faster and cheaper.
Release Gwen 3
- A family of several models from Alibaba.
- All of them use MoE architecture and all of them work on reasoning principles.
- These are small models, but so far they are doing very well in benchmarks.
- Useful resources: