Zencoder Newsletter

Welcome to the fifth edition of The AI Native Engineer by Zencoder, this newsletter will take approximately 5 mins to read.

If you only have one minute, here are the 5 most important things:

1. Gemini 3's quiet rollout and Deep Think mode confirm that reasoning is the new frontier for LLMs, not just token count.

2. The massive $40B and $10B data center investments signal the compute arms race is nowhere near its peak.

3. Cursor's $2.3B mega-round sets a new, dizzying valuation for AI-first developer tools.

4. OpenAI's new group chat feature and Perplexity's Comet upgrade are making agent collaboration a consumer reality.

5. We trace the origin of the supercomputer and the constant engineering battle to accelerate compute.