ByteDance’s Seed team has released Seed-OSS, a family of open-source large language models led by Seed-OSS-36B, a 36-billion-parameter model that supports exceptionally long input windows and is being distributed under an Apache-2.0 license. The code and model cards were published on GitHub and Hugging Face on Aug. 20, 2025, and multiple variants — including a […]
Grok Imagine 0.1 is xAI’s new built-in image-and-video generator inside the Grok/X ecosystem. It lets users create images from text or voice prompts, and convert images into short videos with auto-generated sound. The tool launched as an early “0.1” release (explicitly described by Elon Musk as a beta) and has drawn both praise for speed […]
Midjourney’s HD video mode goes live — higher fidelity, higher cost, wider availability: Midjourney officially rolled out an HD video mode for its newly introduced video tools, opening higher-resolution AI video rendering to paying professional users. The addition upgrades Midjourney’s image-to-video workflow with a higher-pixel option that the company says targets creators who need crisper, […]
In a move that underlines how quickly generative AI is moving beyond text and images, Google DeepMind today unveiled Genie 3, a general-purpose “world model” capable of turning simple text or image prompts into navigable, interactive 3D environments that run in real time. The system represents a leap from previous generative-video and world-model experiments: Genie […]
OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-OSS, a family of two open-weight language models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, marking its first major open-weight offering since GPT-2. The announcement, published on August 5, 2025, emphasizes that these models deliver state-of-the-art reasoning performance at a fraction of the cost associated with proprietary alternatives, and […]
On August 5, 2025, Anthropic publicly released Claude Opus 4.1, a significant refinement of its flagship Opus 4 model family, aimed at advancing agentic tasks, real-world software engineering, and complex reasoning. This incremental update, which builds on the May debut of Claude Opus 4, delivers higher accuracy on coding benchmarks, extended context handling, and maintains […]
On August 4, 2025, Alibaba’s Qwen team officially launched Qwen-Image, a 20 billion-parameter multimodal diffusion transformer (MMDiT) foundation model designed to deliver unprecedented fidelity in text-to-image synthesis and precision image editing. This release marks Alibaba’s bold entry into the open-source image generation arena, positioning Qwen-Image as a direct challenger to proprietary systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4o, […]
In late July 2025, developers inspecting OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent macOS application uncovered references to two previously unannounced models—GPT-5-Auto and GPT-5-Reasoning—suggesting that the next-generation GPT-5 system has entered an internal testing phase. Configuration files buried in the app’s cache include entries like “gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13” with a parameter “reasoning_effort: high”, indicating a specialized focus on intensive, multi-step reasoning […]
SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2025 — OpenAI is reportedly preparing to launch Sora 2, the next-generation iteration of its text-to-video model, aiming to outpace competitors such as Google’s Veo 3. Rumors of the update surfaced following analysis of OpenAI’s public files and server references to “Sora 2,” though the company has yet to issue an official announcement . […]
On July 23, 2025, Alibaba Group officially launched Qwen3‑Coder, an open‑source artificial intelligence model tailored for software development and autonomous coding tasks. The announcement positions Qwen3‑Coder as the company’s most advanced coding model to date, boasting unprecedented scale and performance capabilities designed to meet the complex needs of modern software engineering teams . The flagship […]
