ThursdAI - May 8th - new Gemini pro, Mistral Medium, OpenAI restructuring, HeyGen Realistic Avatars & more AI news

Hey folks, Alex here (yes, real me, not my AI avatar, yet)Compared to previous weeks, this week was pretty "chill" in the world of AI, though we did get a pretty significant Gemini 2.5 Pro update, it basically beat itself on the Arena. With Mistral releasing a new medium model (not OSS) and Nvidia finally dropping Nemotron Ultra (both ignoring Qwen 3 performance) there was also a few open source updates. To me the highlight of this week was a breakthrough in AI Avatars, with Heygen's new IV mode