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👀 Weekly AI news: Did you miss it?!
👨🚀 The most important AI updates at a glance
Die AInauten
April 05, 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, we have 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!
ChatGPT expands its image editing functions with six exciting features: a powerful edit function for precise adjustment of images, the ability to share image chats, one-shot prompts for social media content, GIF creation directly in the chat, Sora integration for photo-to-video conversion and transparent PNG generation. For the average user, this means professional image editing without the need for special software - everything from flyers to infographics is possible.
A comprehensive comparison of different AI image generators shows clear winners: ChatGPT and Google Gemini lead the field, while newcomers such as Reve and Ideogram show solid performance. Grok and Flux, on the other hand, fall short in the test. ChatGPT dominates in image editing with error-free text and realistic rendering. Reve surprises positively, while Gemini shows weaknesses in composition and Grok delivers inconsistent results.
An innovative approach transforms experts and coaches into scalable AI assistants! The process is surprisingly simple: collect data about your desired coach (videos, podcasts, interviews), use tools like Apify to scrape the content and create a personalized coaching prompt with ChatGPT.
With this material, you can create a customized GPT that authentically replicates the style, expertise and personality of your coach. Especially exciting for experts who want to scale their own expertise with the help of AI.
Three exciting developments are revolutionizing the AI video world: Runway's Gen-4 enables consistent characters and more realistic dynamic effects across multiple scenes. Meta's MoCha creates ultra-realistic speaking characters with authentic facial expressions and emotion - a game-changer for AI-generated dialog scenes. Higgsfield scores with stylish camera work and a variety of motion controls for creative video production. These tools promise a huge leap in the quality of AI-generated videos.
OpenAI is launching a free training platform called OpenAI Academy. You can learn everything from prompt engineering to fine-tuning LLMs - but only in English. In addition, Sam Altman announces the imminent release of a quasi-open-source language model via X, and as a bonus there's an exciting insight into the dramatic story of Sam Altman's dismissal.
📰 AI news quickie: HAI highlights from the industry
What a week! Here are the highlights.
Big tech in an AI frenzy: Google, Apple, Meta & Co. step on the gas
Google surprises and makes its experimental Gemini 2.5 Pro model available to all users free of charge. Thanks to sophisticated approaches, it solves complex problems better.
Google Slides gets an upgrade with Imagen 3, a new design sidebar and access to millions of templates and stock photos.
Apple Intelligence now speaks more languages, including German, and is therefore also available in the EU. Practical: New Priority Notifications help you find important notifications more quickly. Apple Vision Pro also benefits from Apple Intelligen and the creation of spatial content.
Apple is apparently also planning an overhaul of the Health app with an AI coach to help users live healthier lives from 2026.
The MetaAI chatbot can now also be used in WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook in the EU.
Meta is also intensifying its push for voice-supported AI and wants to integrate voice natively into Llama 4 to enable more natural conversations.
Meta's first smart glasses with a display are set to arrive by the end of the year - gesture control and camera innovations are available for over 1,000 dollars.
Amazon presents Nova Act, an AI agent that can control the browser and automate actions such as online orders.
Microsoft is targeting industry: the Factory Operations Agent presented at the Hannover Messe is designed to optimize factory processes using natural language. However, Microsoft is scaling back its infrastructure and stopping data center projects with 2 gigawatts of capacity in the USA and Europe.
Bad news for Alexa fans: expected cool features for Alexa+ are likely to be delayed by months. Whether it's worth the wait?
OpenAI & Anthropic Newsflash: Billions, Models & Controversies
OpenAI closes a record $40 billion funding round at a $300 billion valuation, largely driven by SoftBank. Goal: to drive the AGI vision forward!
However, 10 billion dollars of funding could fall through if the transformation into a for-profit company fails by the end of the year.
OpenAI plans to release a new "open" language model, the first since GPT-2, and invites feedback sessions. Sam Altman announces it as a massive new open-weight model.
Anthropic presents Claude for Education, an AI tool for universities to promote critical thinking, developed in collaboration with universities.
But Claude also shows weaknesses: Researchers found that the AI is not only poetically inclined, but also tends to "bullshitting". Honesty is probably not a core competency.
In response to safety concerns, Anthropic has announced updates to its safety precautions for high-performance AI models.
Creative AI on the rise: image, video, audio & 3D reimagined
Luma AI releases Camera Motion Concepts to make it easier to learn and creatively design camera movements in the Dream Machine.
Adobe Premiere Pro receives Generative Extend, which allows video clips to be extended by up to two seconds with the help of AI - without any re-shooting.
KREA AI launches a new 3D tool and a redesign, garnished with discounts and free video training for paying users.
ElevenLabs launches Actor Mode, allowing users to use their own voice to support AI voices for more creative control.
MiniMax Audio makes a quantum leap with the Speech-02 voice model, enabling lifelike audio content such as audiobooks and podcasts in over 30 languages.
China gets in on the act: Mureka O1 is the first chain-of-thought AI music model and raises questions about the future of the music industry in the AI age.
The new Juggernaut Pro FLUX promises photorealistic image generation with impressive detail.
ChatGPT's ability to generate a full wine glass shows progress in understanding abstract concepts. Cheers, AI!
Midjourney fans take note: Version 7 is live! Already tried it out, or still in ChatGPT fever?
AI agents & startup power: automation and new players
rabbit has opened the internal test phase for the improved rabbitOS, which can autonomously plan and execute tasks with multiple agents.
xAI causes a stir with the acquisition of X (formerly Twitter) in an all-stock deal that values xAI at 80 billion and X at 33 billion dollars. Elon Musk's AI empire is growing.
The new Wave 6 from Windsurf brings app deployments and tables of contents for conversations.
Lindy AI can parallelize tasks thanks to swarms of agents and boasts over 5,000 integrations.
With the latest update of Sider, human-like searches can be carried out in minutes. Sounds almost too good to be true.
The AI Whiteboard from Notebooks promises to make it easy to create marketing content in your own style by uploading examples.
Manus AI is now launching paid subscriptions starting at $39/month and is launching an iOS app for the virtual task helper.
China's Zhipu AI is countering the domestic competition with the free AI agent AutoGLM Rumination for research and travel planning.
There is a lot of hype about AI agents in Silicon Valley, but nobody knows exactly what they are, according to TechCrunch. Definition sought!
AI researches, heals & optimizes: Billions for medicine and industry
Isomorphic Labs secures 600 million dollars to advance its AI-supported drug development engine. That smells like breakthroughs.
Insilico Medicine is also raising 110 million US dollars for AI-supported drug research and automated R&D processes.
ReactWise accelerates drug production by a factor of 30 with its "AI co-pilot for chemical process optimization". A potential game changer for the pharmaceutical industry.
Revolutionary: a new brain-to-voice technology enables paralyzed people to generate speech directly from brain waves. Millions could soon be able to communicate again.
Navina's AI platform is already helping over 10,000 clinicians review patient records and manage risk faster.
Lockheed Martin and Google Cloud are working together on Generative AI for National Security to improve data sharing.
The photo calorie app Cal AI, developed by teenagers, has over 5 million downloads and generates millions in revenue. Young, successful, AI-savvy!
Dream of the future or job killer? Society, ethics & politics in the AI spotlight
The EU Commission is investing 1.3 billion euros in AI, cybersecurity and digital skills by 2027 to strengthen Europe's technological sovereignty.
The debate about jobs is coming to a head: H&M is planning AI "twins" of models, raising concerns about jobs and fair pay.
Opinions differ on the job impact: one graphic designer is relaxed about AI as a tool, while others fear the end of the profession.
Bill Gates predicts that in 10 years, many doctors and teachers could be replaced by AI, as humans would no longer be needed "for most things". A gloomy or realistic vision?
Demis Hassabis believes AI could cure diseases and solve energy problems within ten years, but also raises questions about the future of humanity.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad advises: instead of learning programming, focus on how to work with AI to stay relevant .
Researchers also warn that AI search tools have problems citing news sources and often confidently give the wrong answers.
One group of experts even warns that we could be on the wrong track in the pursuit of human-like AI.
According to Forbes, the AI boom has created 29 new billionaires with a combined fortune of 71 billion dollars.
Companies are adapting their structures: According to a McKinsey survey, 78% are already using generative AI in at least one business unit.
And that’s a wrap! Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Your AInauts, And that’s a wrap!
Fabian & Reto
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