AI News for Developers #8: Gemini Gmail, Open Agents & Health AI
Hey Devs! This week’s AI news shows major shifts in how AI enters everyday apps, how open models are evolving, and how AI is tackling real-world challenges like healthcare. Let’s jump into the most important updates.
Gmail Is Entering the Gemini Era
Google is rolling out major AI features in Gmail powered by its Gemini model, turning the inbox into a proactive personal assistant now you can ask your inbox anything.
Read more: https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/gmail/gmail-is-entering-the-gemini-era/
MiroThinker 1.5 - Open-Source Agent Model Challenging Big Giants
MiroThinker 1.5, a new open-source agent model, delivers trillion-parameter-level performance from a much smaller 30 B-parameter base, designed for deep, multi-step reasoning and extensive tool use. This marks a shift where smaller, open models can perform deep reasoning and build agentic workflows cheaper and flexible for internal tools and research agents.
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated health experience inside ChatGPT that links medical records and wellness app data to provide personalized health insights. AI is entering real-world, regulated spaces (healthcare), showing the need for strong privacy engineering and careful compliance - valuable context for devs building similar apps.
Read more: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/
NVIDIA Alpamayo - Reasoning AI for Autonomous Systems
NVIDIA introduced Alpamayo, an open-source family of AI models and simulation tools for reasoning in autonomous vehicles and robotics, enabling them to perceive, reason, and act in complex real-world scenarios. This expands agentic AI beyond text to physical reasoning workflows, opening opportunities for robotics, AV systems, simulators, and edge-AI applications.
Read more: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/alpamayo-autonomous-vehicle-development
How to use Ollama in Python, CLI & Cloud (2026 Tutorial)
Learn how to use Ollama in 2026! This complete ollama tutorial covers everything you need to run large language models (LLMs) locally on Linux, Mac, and Windows. We dive into the CLI, new Cloud features, and how to use local Ollama Python scripts to integrate AI into your own projects.
Watch on YouTube: Ollama Tutorial 2026
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