🧠 Tiny AI model crushes giants

Good morning, AI enthusiast. A tiny 7M parameter model just schooled giants like DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3-mini on reasoning benchmarks, and it’s from Samsung.

In today’s AI newsletter:

• Samsung’s tiny AI model outperforms giant LLMs

• US clears Nvidia chip sales to UAE

• Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance sparks exit of star AI researcher

• How to create professional website designs fast with ready-made prompts

• 4 new AI tools & more

AI NEWS

🧠 Samsung’s Tiny AI Model Outperforms Giant LLMs

Samsung just unveiled TRM, a tiny 7M parameter model that beats DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and o3-mini on reasoning benchmarks, despite being 10,000x smaller than competitors. It achieves this through a recursive, self-refining approach rather than brute-force scale.

→ Generates an initial “draft” answer before thinking
→ Creates a latent scratchpad for internal reasoning and intense self-critique
→ Revises its answers multiple times (up to 16 cycles) for accuracy and logic
→ Uses efficiency over scale, running SOTA reasoning on minimal compute
→ Opens doors for specialized reasoning models that are cheap, fast, and deployable anywhere

Why is important: TRM shows smarter architecture beats bigger models. Businesses, researchers, and developers can now achieve advanced reasoning without billion-dollar GPU clusters, proving that deliberate, recursive thinking can redefine AI performance.

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AI CHIPS

🌍 US Clears Nvidia Chip Sales to UAE

The United States has approved billions of dollars in Nvidia chip exports to the United Arab Emirates, Bloomberg reports, under a bilateral AI agreement made in May 2025.

→ The deal allows the UAE to import up to 500,000 of Nvidia’s advanced AI chips per year starting in 2025
→ Boosts UAE’s construction of data centers critical for AI development
→ Approval comes after reciprocal US investment commitments from the UAE
→ Part of a strategic AI partnership, potentially lasting through 2027–2030

Why is important: This move strengthens the US-UAE AI collaboration, enabling the Emirates to scale AI infrastructure while cementing Nvidia chips as a global standard for high-performance AI workloads.

AI TALENT

🚨 Anthropic’s ‘Anti-China’ Stance Sparks Exit of Star AI Researcher

Physicist-turned-AI researcher Yao Shunyu has left Anthropic for Google DeepMind after less than a year, citing the company’s stance toward China as a key reason.

→ Helped build Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 4 during his tenure
→ Said 40% of his decision came from Anthropic’s policy barring subsidiaries from “adversarial nations like China”
→ Mentioned other “undisclosed internal matters,” adding his time there “is better without you”
→ Will now join DeepMind’s Gemini team as a senior research scientist

Why is important: Yao’s departure underscores the growing geopolitical rift in global AI research, as U.S. companies adopt stricter national-security-driven policies, potentially alienating top Chinese talent that has long been central to cutting-edge AI progress.

HOW TO AI

🎨 How to Create Professional Website Designs Fast with Ready-Made Prompts

21st.dev is a free AI UI library packed with beautifully designed, animated components. Instead of writing code, you can simply copy prompts from 21st.dev and use them inside tools like Lovable, Cursor, or v0.dev to generate complete web sections instantly.

🧰 Who is This For

• Developers who want to build fast with AI tools like Cursor or Lovable

• Designers looking to create web-ready UI visually

• Founders building MVPs or landing pages without hiring a dev team

• Anyone who wants ready-to-use UI prompts that generate real code

STEP 1: Access 21st.dev

Head to 21st.dev, you’ll land on a minimal black interface with a search box saying “What would you like to craft with AI today?”

On the left sidebar, you’ll find dozens of categories like Cards, Buttons, Avatars, Dropdowns, and Calendars.
Each one contains pre-built animated UI components you can preview live.

STEP 2: Search or Browse Components

Use the search bar at the top or click through categories on the left.
For example, if you want to design a profile card, search “Card”, you’ll see multiple sleek options.

Click on one you like, for this tutorial, let’s pick “Display Cards” under the Cards category.
This opens a preview page showing the live animation and layout.

STEP 3: Copy Prompt or Code

Once you click on Display Cards, it opens a preview page where you can interact with the live component.
On the right-hand side, you’ll see the Code section with the exact setup you can use, including the import statements and JSX.
At the top right corner, there are two key buttons:

• Copy Code to instantly copy the entire working component.

• Copy Prompt if you want to reuse the same design style by prompting the AI.

For this tutorial, let’s choose Copy Prompt

Now, open Lovable, Cursor, or v0.dev, and paste the prompt inside your AI workspace.

You can tweak parameters like style, framework (Next.js / React), resolution, or tone, but even the raw prompt usually gives stunning results right away.

STEP 4: Customize and Build

Once your AI tool generates the component, you can adjust layout, animations, or add backend logic directly inside your code editor.

For example, you can tell the AI to:

• “Make it responsive for mobile”

• “Add a hover animation”

• “Change theme to dark mode”

Within minutes, you’ll have a unique, production-ready design built off 21st.dev’s aesthetic, but fully customized to your project.

ESSENTIAL BITES

• OpenAI’s video app Sora hit 627,000 iOS downloads in its first week, nearly matching ChatGPT’s launch.

• Zendesk’s new AI can handle 80% of support issues, with other agents assisting complex cases, boosting customer satisfaction.

• Google’s AI virtual try-on tool now works in Australia, Canada, and Japan, and lets users try on shoes, not just clothes.

• MIT, IBM, and the University of Washington launched TOUCAN, the largest open dataset for training AI agents, featuring 1.5 million tool interactions across 495 MCP servers.

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