Last Week in AI - Week 12

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Axel Flerén
March 24, 2025

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This is a letter about the last week in AI.

Featuring News, updates & Insights in AI for Week 12, 2025

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Updates & News - Week 12

NVIDIA’s AI Future is Blackwell-Powered

Context

At GTC 2025, Jensen Huang took the stage in his signature leather jacket and made it clear: NVIDIA’s AI dominance is far from over.

Key Information

  • Blackwell, the new flagship chip, is here and it’s designed for trillion-parameter models.

  • It’s 4x faster and 25x more energy-efficient than Hopper.

  • Major players like OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI are already onboard.

  • NVIDIA also teased a future “Rubin” architecture slated for 2026.

What to Take Away from This

This wasn’t just a chip launch. It was a power play.

With Blackwell, NVIDIA is saying: “You want to build next-gen AI? You’ll need us.”

The performance jump is wild, but what matters more is how tightly the entire AI ecosystem now revolves around NVIDIA’s roadmap.

They’re building the foundation, everyone else is building on top.

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Oracle’s New AI Agent Studio

Context

Oracle isn’t always in the spotlight when it comes to AI. This week, they made a quiet but strategic move with a tool built for enterprise automation.

Key Information

  • “AI Agent Studio” lets businesses create custom AI agents for specific tasks.

  • Supports APIs, external tools, and plugins.

  • Built-in evaluation and monitoring dashboard included.

  • Integrated tightly into Oracle’s cloud ecosystem.

What to Take Away from This

While everyone else is racing to launch the next big model, Oracle is quietly making AI useful at work.

This isn’t headline-grabbing innovation, but it’s practical.

For companies already plugged into Oracle’s stack, this could be the missing link between “we have AI” and “AI actually does something.”

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Job Layoffs due to AI

Context

The AI hype machine is still running. But in the background, a lot of people are losing their jobs.

Key Information

  • Over 150 tech and AI companies have announced layoffs in 2025.

  • Big names like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are on the list.

  • Common reasons include automation, efficiency pushes, VC pullback.

  • Most affected roles aren’t engineering, they’re in sales, ops, and marketing.

What to Take Away from This

AI might be booming, but it’s also trimming the fat.

Companies are still hiring for AI engineers, but they’re cutting fast in roles they think AI can replace.

It’s a weird time: massive investment on one side, cost-cutting on the other.

The message is clear, AI isn’t just creating jobs, It’s also ending them.

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That was everything for Week 12, hoping that you found it valuable!

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Axel