Posts tagged with “big tech”

Google Gemini: Skills ersetzen Gems als Agenten-Prompts

Google stellt Gems ein, sein Werkzeug zum Erstellen eigener Gemini-Versionen, und ersetzt es durch "Skills". Die neue Funktion wird derzeit weltweit für Nutzer des Gemini-Chats eingeführt. Damit folgt Google OpenAI und Anthropic: Statt personalisierter Chatbots setzen alle drei auf wiederverwendbare Anweisungspakete, auf die ein KI-System bei Bedarf zugreifen kann.

Gems waren Googles Antwort auf OpenAIs Custom GPTs. Auch OpenAI lässt diese auslaufen. Das Format, das sie ablöst, stammt weder von Google noch von OpenAI. Skills wurden bei Anthropic entwickelt und sind inzwischen als offener Standard veröffentlicht.

Was ein Skill eigentlich ist

Ein Skill ist ein ausführlicher Prompt, der für eine bestimmte Aufgabe geschrieben wurde. Nutzer können ihn selbst verfassen oder sich von Gemini beim Schreiben und Verfeinern helfen lassen. Ziel ist es, Anweisungen zu speichern, die man sonst immer wieder neu eintippen würde, und sie bei Bedarf abzurufen.

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Google Gemini Skills Replace Gems in Agent Prompt Shift

Google is retiring Gems, its tool for building custom versions of Gemini, and replacing it with "Skills." The new feature is rolling out to Gemini chat users worldwide. With this change, Google joins OpenAI and Anthropic in moving away from personalized chatbots and toward reusable instruction packages that an AI system can call on when needed.

Gems were Google's answer to OpenAI's Custom GPTs. OpenAI is also phasing those out. The format replacing them did not come from Google or OpenAI. Skills started at Anthropic and are now published as an open standard.

What a Skill actually is

A Skill is a detailed prompt written for a specific task. Users can draft one themselves, or have Gemini help write and refine it. The goal is to store instructions you would otherwise retype often, and then call them up on demand.

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GPT-Synopsys: OpenAI Teams With Synopsys on Chip Design AI

OpenAI has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Synopsys to build a specialized AI model for chip design. The model is called GPT-Synopsys. The aim is to give semiconductor engineers a system that understands design work and can run the industry's design software directly.

The deal pairs a frontier AI lab with one of the established vendors in chip design software. Both companies are now testing whether a language model can take on part of the work of an experienced chip engineer.

Who Synopsys is

Synopsys sells electronic design automation (EDA) tools. Engineers use this software to design computer chips and other semiconductors. EDA covers much of the work between a chip concept and a manufacturable product, including design and verification, which checks that a design behaves as intended before it is built.

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Gemini 4 Argon: Google Bets on Defensive Cyber AI

Google has a new flagship model, and it is not being released to everyone. Alphabet, Google's parent company, has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a general-purpose model that covers coding, research and writing. Google is putting most of its emphasis on one area, though: cybersecurity.

Access is restricted for now. Argon is going only to a small group of Google's cyber partners through the Fairwind Program, the company's security initiative. Google says it trained the model specifically for defensive cyber work and claims it can "autonomously find, validate, and patch critical software vulnerabilities."

What Google says Argon can do

The claims fall into three groups.

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Meta's AI Data Center Tax Credit Saved $3.9B in 2025

Meta is cutting its US tax bill by billions of dollars with an unusual label. According to the New York Times, the company classifies its AI data centers as "pilot models" and the Nvidia chips inside them as experimental materials. That lets it claim a federal research tax credit meant to reward research and development.

The amounts are large, and they are rising. Meta saved $3.9 billion through the credit in 2025. That is up from $2 billion in 2024 and $700 million in 2023. The Times reports that no other publicly traded company benefits more from this credit.

Experiments at multi-gigawatt scale

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