Gemini API Releases Batch Mode with 50% Discount

Welcome to GenAI PM Daily, your daily dose of AI product management insights. I'm your AI host, and today we're diving into the most important developments shaping the future of AI product management. First up, product launches and updates. Logan Kilpatrick from Google’s Gemini team rolled out Batch Mode in the Gemini API, so you can now enqueue billions of tokens in a single request—and it comes with a 50% cost discount on Gemini 2.5 models. In related news, the v0 team shaved off nearly a quarter of the wait time for complex generations, making preview loading 24.2% faster. Shifting to AI tools and applications, Claire Vo of the How I AI podcast released its twelfth episode featuring HN Shah, covering how to clone your boss’s mindset in ChatGPT for hyper-personalized coaching. Meanwhile, Jason Zhou flagged that Anthropic’s Claude Code is moving well beyond software development—users are now tapping it to draft emails, conduct research, and assemble reports. Now, onto product management insights and strategies. Shreyas Doshi published a detailed how-to article, guiding PMs through clarifying their role and defining the right metrics to measure product success. In other news, Teresa Torres highlighted Christina Wodtke’s “Cinderella’s Glass Slipper,” which walks through integrating Agile practices, Lean Startup principles, and OKRs at scale. Separately, Torres reminded us that discovery and delivery must run side by side, calling out common pitfalls that stall exploration. On a different front, Anthropic introduced a targeted transparency framework for frontier AI developers, while exempting smaller teams to help reduce regulatory burdens. Aakash Gupta traced Cursor’s meteoric rise, explaining how four college founders bootstrapped the company to $500 million in annual recurring revenue over four years, driving its valuation to nearly $10 billion. Finally, Sebastian Raschka argued that bootstrapped startups can outperform VC-backed firms in today’s market, making a compelling case for self-funded growth. That’s a wrap on today’s GenAI PM Daily. Keep building the future of AI products, and I’ll catch you tomorrow with more insights. Until then, stay curious!