??? Industry Bytes: Gemini 2.0, Anthropic’s New AI Model, & 2025 Scraping Trends
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? Industry news
After releasing an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash for developers in December 2024, Google managed to improve its performance and make it available to all users of the Gemini app on desktop and mobile.?
The suite of models includes: 2.0 Flash – “a powerful model optimal for high-volume, high-frequency tasks,” 2.0 Pro Experimental for coding performance and complex prompts, and 2.0 Flash-Lite – the company’s “most cost-efficient model yet.”
With these developments, Google once again confirms its dedication to a larger strategy of investing in AI agents as competition intensifies among tech giants and startups in the AI space.
?? More info about the three models covered on Google’s blog.
More on new developments – AI startup Anthropic is getting ready to release its next major AI model designed to reason more efficiently.??
According to a report from The Information, the upcoming model is going to be a “hybrid” that will switch between deep reasoning and fast responses. The company will also introduce the concept of a “sliding scale with the model to allow developers to control costs, as the deep reasoning capabilities consume more computing.”
?? For more insight and a quote from Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, see the news article on TechCrunch.
??Useful guides & tips
On January 17, Google announced that users have to enable JavaScript to use Google Search. This requirement is part of an update intended to protect search results from malicious actors and improve the overall user experience.?
In light of this change, we prepared a custom Python scraping guide on sending requests with a headless browser, check it out on our blog.
What does it mean for Oxylabs API users?
We can assure that our web scraping solutions remain unaffected. Our clients can expect the same performance, reliability, and scraping volumes they usually rely on.
Robert Heaton, a Software Engineer and a researcher at Antropic, built PyMyFLySpy – a local web app that displays maps and graphs about your flight. This includes all available data from the in-flight Wi-Fi, even information that typically isn't shown on the website or headrest screen.
Curious to learn more about this fun little project? Check out Robert’s blog or head to PyMyFlySpy’s GitHub repository to access the code examples.
??? Code & tools
Repomix – a powerful tool that packs your entire repository into a single, AI-friendly file. Suitable for situations when you need to feed your code to LLMs or other AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Gemini, Gemma, Llama, Grok, and more.
A self-hosted API that takes a URL and returns a file with browser screenshots. You host the API as a web server on your machine, send it a URL, and receive the website data as a file along with site screenshots.
Bruin is a data pipeline tool that integrates data ingestion, SQL and Python-based transformation, and data quality management within a unified framework. It supports all major data platforms and can run locally, on an EC2 instance, or via GitHub Actions.
?? Must-Watch: Web Scraping Trends and Challenges for 2025
Just yesterday we hosted our new free webinar covering everything you need to advance your web scraping in 2025 – from mastering the latest techniques to navigating compliance and adapting to new trends.
And you can still watch the recording on-demand to hear our selected expert panel and the host Giedrius ?teimantas, Engineering Manager at Oxylabs talk about:
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Liza