Weekly Startup Digest #28
May 17, 2025
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#STORY
OpenAI Codex is a exciting cloud agent that runs parallel, sandboxed coding tasks for ChatGPT users.
#AI
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) dramatically upgrades coding abilities, now #1 on WebDev Arena.
Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve is a Gemini-powered evolutionary coding agent that autonomously invents and optimizes algorithms.
Dia is Nari Labs’ open-weights 1.6-billion-parameter TTS model that can synthesize ultra-realistic, multi-speaker dialogue
Ollama’s new engine brings first-class multimodal support, starting with vision models such as Llama 4 Scout, Gemma 3 and Qwen 2.5 VL.
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen3 release open-weights eight models (0.6B–235B dense and MoE), featuring switchable “thinking” vs “instant” modes.
#DESIGN
Google’s research-driven Material 3 Expressive update uses bold color, shape and motion to evoke emotion and helps users spot key UI elements up to 4× faster.
#WATCHING
At its Config 2025 keynote, Figma unveiled four AI-powered additions, Sites, Make, Buzz and Draw.
#CODE
Ash Framework is a declarative Elixir backend toolkit that lets you “model your domain and derive the rest,” auto-generating APIs and LiveView back-ends for rapid, wheel-free development.
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