Weekly Startup Digest #29
Jun 1, 2025
Startups don’t die because they run out of money, they die because they run out of will - Ben Horowitz
#STORY
Anthropic’s Claude 4 launch delivers Opus 4 touted as the world’s best coding model, topping SWE-bench with 72.5 and the leaner Sonnet 4, both live via the Claude API.
#AI
Google’s I/O 2025 launch brings Imagen 4 for sharper images, Veo 3 for text-to-video with native audio, and the Flow scene-builder.
GitHub Copilot’s new coding agent, now in public preview, can autonomously tackle assigned issues directly from github repositories.
Jules is Google’s asynchronous coding agent that connects to your GitHub repo to autonomously fix bugs, write tests and more.
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Diffusion is an experimental text-generation model that refines noise into whole blocks of tokens, enabling dramatically faster, more coherent and self-correcting text/code.
Mistral AI’s Devstral is an Apache-2.0 open-source agentic LLM co-created with All Hands AI that outperforms all open models on SWE-Bench Verified, powering software-engineering agents to solve real GitHub issues across entire codebases.
#WATCHING
Google I/O 2025’s keynote unveiled an AI-first product wave introducing Gemini-powered AI Mode in Search, new generative models Imagen 4 and Veo 3 with the Flow scene-builder and more.
#CODE
Anthropic’s Claude Code SDK now lets developers invoke Claude Code as a subprocess for non-interactive use inside their apps and CI pipelines with CLI support.
Microsoft has launched a public-preview PostgreSQL extension for VS Code that turns the editor into a full IDE complete with schema visualization, context-aware IntelliSense and an @pgsql Copilot agent.
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