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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
March 23, 2025
👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
AIHOY and happy weekend, dear AInauts!
Maybe you didn't catch all the exciting news, tools and hacks about AI last week, or maybe you've just joined us. No need to worry!
We have summarized our highlights of the past week for you:
Finally, there is the most important quick news for you - so you can keep an eye on all relevant developments with just one click! Ready? Let's go!
Google has launched Gemini 2.0 Flash, a free experiment that can edit and generate images directly via chat. The tool impresses with conversational image editing, consistent styles and an extended context window of 1 million tokens.
Features such as social media visual generation, product mockups and corporate design development are particularly exciting for content creators. With simple prompts, objects can be added, watermarks removed or images converted into different styles! The free experimentation phase is ideal for familiarizing yourself with the technology.
ImageFX from Google Labs magically transforms your text descriptions into cool images - perfect for anyone who can't get past stick figures when drawing. The results are amazing and definitely whet the appetite for more creative AI experiments!
Gamma, the popular AI tool for content creation, has been given some exciting new features. Users can now recreate and customize entire websites via URL import, which is particularly useful for less tech-savvy users. Presentations can finally be exported directly to Google Slides, and there are also new social media design functions with direct LinkedIn integration. A must-have tool for anyone who regularly needs to create visually appealing content.
The cult sci-fi series "Black Mirror" returns to Netflix on April 10 with season 7! The highlight: for the first time ever, there will be a sequel to an existing episode. "USS Callister" is getting a sequel, in which the digital clones of the captured crew are presumably seeking revenge. The new season promises typically disturbing visions of the future à la Black Mirror.
A new HubSpot analysis with 1,200 marketing experts shows the most important AI trends for 2025. While AI-supported text and image production is already standard, audio and video will be the next breakthrough areas. Tools such as NotebookLM and ElevenLabs are revolutionizing podcast production, while AI video tools such as HeyGen, Hedra 3.0 and Creatify are paving the way for authentic short content creation. YouTube, Instagram and TikTok remain the dominant platforms.
The perfect workflow combination is Claude and Perplexity! Claude shines with human-sounding texts, data analyses and mockups. Perplexity ideally complements this with up-to-date online data and better AI search than ChatGPT. Pro tip: Use "site:" and "filetype:" parameters in Perplexity for targeted research and then export the sources to Claude as a knowledge base to create interactive dashboards.
Google launches exciting free updates for Gemini! The Deep Research Agent is now available to everyone and uses Google's extensive search expertise for precise research. The new Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model excels at processing complex contexts from multiple sources. And the new personalization function allows Gemini to access your search history and link Google services such as Drive, Calendar and YouTube. Despite data protection concerns: Google is finally using its strengths in the AI competition!
📰 AI news quickie: HAI highlights from the industry
... pffh, let's jump right in with the news!
AI giants in a race: Nvidia, OpenAI, Google & Co.
At GTC 2025, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang once again played the future card and presented new "personal AI supercomputers". The DGX Spark delivers a whopping 1,000 TOPS of AI computing power. Perfect for anyone who wants to double their electricity bill...
OpenAI rolls out the red carpet for AI agents with the new Responses API - now anyone can build their own AI agents that surf the web, search through documents and control your computer. The old Assistants API will be retired in 2026.
Perplexity's new Sonar models offer better performance at a lower cost. They even outperform GPT-4o, with selectable high, medium or low mode. Now that's what we call a power move!
Baidu is really coming up trumps with its new AI model Ernie X1. It can be tested free of charge, has reasoning skills and allegedly outperforms GPT-4.5 in terms of text creation.
Apple restructures its AI department: Tim Cook has appointed Mike Rockwell, the brains behind Apple's Vision Pro, as the new head of Siri. Apparently his patience with the previous head of AI has run out.
AI tools for smart developers & creatives
Adobe is rolling out AI agents in the Experience Cloud - for personalized customer experiences across all channels.
With Pika, you can now manipulate characters or objects in videos while leaving the rest intact. You must be a Pika Creative Partner for exclusive pre-release access.
KREA AI brings a new feature that allows you to train Wan 2.1 with your own videos to learn custom styles, movements or objects - personalized AI creations become the new standard!
Roblox introduces "Cube", a generative AI system for 3D and 4D that allows you to build creative worlds.
The new model "GPT4.o transcribe" outperforms the previous leader "Whisper" in the word error rate test and thus significantly improves performance in automatic speech recognition.
PDF handling is also getting smarter: you can now feed PDF files directly into the OpenAI API, either as Base64-encoded data or via the Files API.
Nous Research launches its uncensored Inference API. This gives open source fans access to Hermes 3 Llama 70B and DeepHermes 3 8B.
Elon Musk's xAI buys Hotshot to scale automated video generation - a move that underlines the potential of AI in visual media production.
AI in everyday working life: from agents to cooperation
Tech CEOs publicly debate whether AI will soon be super-intelligent! Dario Amodei from Anthropic predicts 2026 will be "smarter than a Nobel Prize winner", while Demis Hassabis from Google DeepMind pleads for at least ten years.
But what is certain is that 2025 will be the year of AI agents that can really do something - AI bosses agree on that.
OpenAI is testing the seamless integration of ChatGPT directly into Slack and Google Drive with "ChatGPT Connectors".
Mistral also shows with Small 3.1 that open source models are continuing to catch up and are increasingly becoming a real alternative to the commercial players.
A Harvard study reveals: Open source software is worth 8.8 billion dollars, and just 3,000 developers are powering 96 percent of this digital foundation of our economy. These heroes definitely deserve more recognition!
AI conquers the media landscape
The Italian newspaper "Il Foglio AI" is making history as the world's first publication to be created entirely by AI systems.
With its new "Conversational Video Interface", Tavus promises revolutionary human-like interactions - with natural facial movements and micro-expressions. Impressive, but we are not yet completely convinced.
An innovative audio campaign with AI-based spots sold 220,000 tickets for the Women's Rugby World Cup in just four weeks - a prime example of the efficient use of generative technologies in marketing.
Websites are seeing increased traffic from ChatGPT and the like - ChatGPT is the clear leader, but Perplexity and Gemini are gaining traction in e-commerce and healthcare in particular.
The head of a data brokerage firm boasts in a creepy video that his company has detailed personal data on 91% of all adult internet users. Sounds like the villain from the next Bond movie!
AI in healthcare: Revolution or risk?
AI chatbots are now replacing therapists faster than expected. For $9.99 a month, you can trust an algorithm with your deepest fears - but can it really replace real human connection?
Hospitals are experimenting with AI systems for patient care. Human nurses find this "reckless and dangerous"...
Google enters the drug business! The search giant is developing open AI models called TxGemma for drug research. The vision: instead of going to the pharmacy, an algorithm designs new pills for you.
Virtual reality & robotics: the physical AI world is emerging
Imagine your new roommate is a robot! Norwegian startup 1X is planning to test its humanoid Neo Gamma in "several hundred to a thousand" homes this year - the future is literally knocking on the door.
Google DeepMind is revolutionizing robotics with its AI that can solve complex problems across different sensory channels - we are approaching the vision of intelligent robots that support our everyday lives.
Bigscreen Beyond 2 sets new standards: 116° field of vision, eye tracking, improved optics and a featherweight 107 grams. The first devices will be delivered in April 2025 - VR is becoming increasingly comfortable!
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Your AInauts, And that’s a wrap!
Fabian & Reto
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