Building with AI? Google's Investing

+ GPT-4o Just Became Your Slide Designer 🎨

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Reyhan Merekar
May 13, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

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Google is slowly trying to turn new startups into loyal Gemini customers…

In this edition we’ll be covering…

  • Google’s new AI Futures Fund

  • A breakdown on how to use web search in the Claude API

  • A tutorial on how to generate professional slides with GPT-4o

  • 5 snippets of AI news

  • 3 more AI tools to add to your list

  • And much more…

The Latest in AI

Google Launches AI Futures Fund to Back Startups

Google just announced their latest AI initiative: the AI Futures Fund.

The new fund aims to invest in startups leveraging Google DeepMind’s cutting-edge AI technology.

The plan? Make Google’s AI the backbone of the next generation of breakout companies (and maybe steal some thunder from Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership in the process).

What’s Google Offering?

  • Cold, hard cash. Google will invest in AI startups from seed to late stage.

  • Early founders get their hands on Google DeepMind’s models before they hit the market, unlocking capabilities their competitors can only dream about.

  • Google Cloud credits are part of the package too!

  • Founders will be able to work alongside Google experts from DeepMind and Google Labs.

So What?

While Google hasn’t disclosed the fund’s total size or the average investment amount, it’s clear this is a strategic play to build an ecosystem around its AI technology.

By empowering startups to integrate with DeepMind models early, Google is effectively setting its tools as the industry standard. It’s the same approach Amazon used with AWS, becoming indispensable infrastructure for countless companies.

And Google’s timing is no accident. The announcement drops just a week before its annual I/O Developer Conference, where major AI updates are expected.

This could be a warm-up act for even bigger announcements on the horizon…

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Industry Intel

Use Claude’s Web Search in the API

Anthropic recently introduced web search on the Claude interface, and now, we have it in the API!

This means Claude now has live access to the internet, so it can search, find, and synthesize the latest information right as you’re working. Plus, you can build cool apps around it.

Want to give it a spin? Here’s how:

  1. Navigate to the Anthropic console.

  2. Type in a prompt.

  3. Towards the top, there is a wrench icon. Click that and make sure Web Search is enabled.

  4. Execute your query!

Prompt Ideas to Get You Started:

  • “Get me the latest research on quantum computing published this year.”

  • “What are the top AI conferences happening in 2025?”

  • “Summarize the most recent climate change studies from reputable sources.”

Get Your Hands Dirty!

Create Amazing Slides with GPT-4o

Okay, I’ll admit, the above slide was made by ChatGPT and NOT McKinsey…

There’s been no shortage of use-cases coming forth with OpenAI’s new image model, and this is a really good one. Making great slides might actually be easy now!

You can do it too:

  1. Navigate to ChatGPT.

  2. Toggle the GPT-4o model.

  3. Use a prompt similar to: Generate me a professional slide explaining AI adoption in McKinsey style.

🔥 Pro Tip - If you want to get really specific with a style of a slide, you can find an image of a slide and upload it as reference!

Some sample prompts for you to try:

“Generate a business strategy slide with a minimalist design, inspired by McKinsey and BCG. Use clean typography, professional icons, and structured sections for Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals. Apply a dark blue and white color palette for a corporate feel.”

“Create a data analytics dashboard slide that highlights key metrics like ROI, user growth, and revenue trends. Use bar charts, line graphs, and data cards with clear labels and sleek, modern aesthetics. Opt for a neutral color scheme with accent colors for clarity.”

Quick Bites

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

CopilotKit released AG-UI (Agent-User Interaction Protocol) yesterday. This is a new open, event-driven protocol that establishes a structured communication layer between backend AI agents and frontend applications (more to come on this from us)!

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, explains his note-taking system and how he thinks about writing.

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing to continue with some of the core priorities of Pope Francis.

SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.

OpenAI unveiled HealthBench, a new benchmark designed to better measure capabilities of AI systems for health.

🤖 Manus - The fully autonomous agent, Manus, is now fully available to all with on waitlist.

🗣️ Claude System Prompt - The full system prompt for Claude was recently leaked (this link will take you directly to the prompt).

💻️ Alumnium - Translate your test instructions into executable commands using AI.

The Neural Network

We asked you how you’re planning to use the music you create with Suno, and it looks like most of you are going to be creating jams for indie projects and content creation!

In other news, I found this spicy diagram floating around, apparently, Microsoft, OpenAI, Windsurf, and Cursor now have quite the tangled web.

Microsoft holds a 49% profit share in OpenAI, which now owns Windsurf ($3B). OpenAI is also an investor in Cursor ($9B), which was forked from VSCode, a Microsoft property.

If this isn’t a modern-day AI family tree, I don’t know what is.

Image from: r/singularity

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