Need to know
- DeepSeek open-sources Super-Agent, a coding agent that proactively monitors developer chats and fixes issues without being asked.
- Dulo raises a $130M seed round to build a domain-specific AI foundation model for software engineering.
- Perion agrees to be acquired by India's Affle in an all-cash deal valuing the adtech company at $420M.
- Figma connects Google Drive to its agent, letting design workflows pull docs and assets directly.
- ZoomInfo puts its MCP connector and API inside Snowflake, enabling natural-language queries over verified GTM data.
New Tools
DeepSeek released Super-Agent, an open-source prototype coding agent that monitors developer group chats and proposes fixes without waiting to be asked, positioning it as a direct rival to Anthropic's Claude Code.
- Proactive monitoring: the agent watches Slack and other chat scopes, identifies coding problems from messages and comments, and acts within permissions set by the team rather than waiting for an explicit prompt.
- Minimal-interruption design: DeepSeek's stated goal is for Super-Agent to take as little human attention as possible while delivering as much value as possible, built by the company's dedicated Harness team.
Presentations.AI launched a sales enablement deck generator that pulls live data from Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Snowflake, and six other sources to auto-generate prospect-specific PowerPoint decks from a single approved master.
- Live Presentation Refresh keeps decks current as CRM and BI data changes, with three approval modes to govern edits before they reach reps.
- Presentation API priced at $0.10 per slide lets GTM platforms and AI agents generate branded, editable PowerPoint or Google Slides files programmatically, with a 50% launch discount for three months.
Product Changes
Figma's agent can now connect to Google Drive, letting product and design teams pull documents, briefs, and assets directly into Figma workflows without leaving the tool.
- Google Drive integration is available alongside a Make connector, expanding the Figma agent's data sources beyond Figma-native content.
- Workflow automation via Make means teams can trigger Figma agent actions from external events, such as a new brief appearing in Drive.
ZoomInfo's MCP connector and API are now available inside Snowflake, letting business users query verified company, contact, intent, and Scoops data in natural language through Snowflake CoWork and letting data teams enrich warehouse tables in real time or in bulk.
- Natural-language access via Snowflake CoWork means GTM and revenue ops teams can ask questions of ZoomInfo data without writing SQL or leaving their warehouse environment.
- GTM.AI context layer sits beneath both connections, routing requests through ZoomInfo's headless GTM infrastructure so enrichment is consistent across pipelines.
Reply shipped AI Enrichment, which turns prospect research into filterable, reusable data fields, alongside agentic capabilities that let external tools and AI agents trigger and run outreach sequences without manual clicks.
- AI Enrichment automates the per-prospect research that previously consumed hours per list, producing structured data that can be filtered and reused across sequences.
- Agentic capabilities expose Reply's outreach engine to external orchestrators, so a GTM stack can route a qualified lead into an active sequence without a human switching screens.
OpenAI activated creative enhancements by default in ChatGPT Ads, meaning the platform can now adapt ad copy and destination URLs for new and existing campaigns without requiring advertiser approval of each version.
- Default-on behavior applies to all new and existing campaigns; advertisers must actively opt out at the account or campaign level in Ads Manager to stop automatic changes.
- Scope of changes includes ad copy and destination URLs, adapting creative to the conversational context of each ChatGPT session.
Raises and Valuations
Dulo, a San Francisco lab building domain-specific AI foundation models for software engineering and technical automation led by roboticist Sebastian Thrun, raised a $130M seed round from DST Global, Construct Capital, and Lowercarbon Capital.
Customer-facing agent platform Sierra disclosed it crossed $400M in ARR, adding more than $150M in Q3 alone, more than it generated in all of the prior year, with the company doubling from $200M to $400M ARR in five months.
Liquidity Events
India's Affle agreed to acquire Nasdaq-listed Israeli adtech company Perion for $11.70 per share in an all-cash deal valuing Perion at approximately $420M, a 34.5% premium to its October 30 closing price and a steep drop from its prior billion-dollar peak valuation.
Apple acquired Ascend.io, a startup specializing in agentic data engineering, in what appears to be an acquihire disclosed under the EU's Digital Markets Act, with no price announced and the company winding down operations.