Your curated digest of the most important AI developments, 7–14 April 2025
🇪🇺 Europe Moves Boldly on AI
🏭 EU Commits 20 Billion € to AI Gigafactories
The European Union unveiled a 20 Billion € initiative to build AI “gigafactories” packed with high-performance compute. These facilities will host over 100,000 advanced processors, fuelling AI moonshots in healthcare, robotics, and science.
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🔍 Ireland Investigates Elon Musk’s Grok AI
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is probing xAI’s Grok over potential GDPR breaches. At issue: whether Grok was trained on European users’ data collected through Musk’s X (formerly Twitter).
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🧠 Model Releases & Updates
🦙 Meta Releases Llama 4 Scout & Maverick
Meta launched Llama 4 Scout (10M-token context window, 17B active parameters) and Llama 4 Maverick (1M-token context, 128 experts). Both models set new multimodal performance benchmarks.
🔗 Llama 4 details
⚡ OpenAI Teases GPT-4.1 & Mini Variants
OpenAI is apparently preparing to release GPT-4.1, an updated multimodal model, along with GPT-4.1 mini and nano versions. Expected features are real-time vision/audio/text and improved reasoning capabilities.
🔗 More on GPT-4.1
🚀 Product Launches & Research
🧰 Google Launches Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Google released an open-source Agent Development Kit, enabling developers to build, test, and deploy multi-agent systems with ease.
🔗 Google ADK overview