OpenAI buys Jony Ive's io for $6.5b, LMArena lands $100m seed from a16z

**OpenAI** confirmed a partnership with **Jony Ive** to develop consumer hardware. **LMArena** secured a $100 million seed round from **a16z**. **Mistral** launched a new code model fine-tune. **Google DeepMind** announced multiple updates at **Google I/O 2024**, including over a dozen new models and 20 AI products. Key highlights include the release of **Gemini 2.5 Pro** and **Gemini Diffusion**, featuring advanced multimodal reasoning, coding, and math capabilities, and integration of Gemini in **Google Chrome** as an AI browsing assistant. **Deep Think** enhanced reasoning mode and **Project Astra** improvements were also introduced, focusing on voice output, memory, and computer control for a universal AI assistant.