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This Week In AI 2025 #12 - Apr 6 to Apr 12

A roundup of all the latest AI news and releases from Apr 6 to Apr 12, 2025.

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Hi there! This Week in AI is a weekly series of notes where I try to stay updated with the latest news in Artificial Intelligence!

My Favorites This Week

ChatGPT Memory Upgrade

Apr 11, 2025

ChatGPT’s memory now references all past chats, enabling more personalized responses based on your preferences—for writing, advice, learning, and more.

Twitter OpenAI on Twitter / X

Google Veo 2 GA

Apr 10, 2025

Veo 2 is now production-ready in the Gemini API, enabling high-quality video generation from text and image prompts with physics simulation and diverse visual styles.

Twitter Google AI Developers on Twitter / X

Google Firebase Studio

Apr 9, 2025

Google launches Firebase Studio, a Gemini AI–powered web platform for building, testing, and deploying apps—streamlining development within the Google ecosystem.

The Firebase Blog Introducing Firebase Studio

Gemini 2.5 Pro Deep Research

Apr 9, 2025

Google’s Deep Research now runs on Gemini 2.5 Pro, delivering powerful data analysis and insights to streamline complex research tasks.

Google Dave Citron Deep Research is now available on Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental.

Meta AI Llama 4

Apr 6, 2025

Meta launches Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, its most advanced multimodal models yet—outperforming top rivals across benchmarks with unmatched efficiency and visual grounding.

Meta AI The Llama 4 herd: The beginning of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation

Other Releases

Canva Visual Suite 2.0

Apr 12, 2025

Canva Visual Suite 2.0 introduces AI-driven features that allow users to create everything from documents and presentations to websites—all within a single design.

Pika Twists

Apr 10, 2025

Pika Twists lets you edit any character or object in your video while leaving the rest untouched—giving you precise creative control.

Twitter Pika on Twitter / X

Amazon Nova Sonic

Apr 10, 2025

Amazon’s Nova Sonic is a speech-to-speech AI model enabling real-time, natural conversations with expressive tone, emotion, and seamless speech generation.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. Amazon Nova speech models – AWS

Google Agent2Agent Protocol

Apr 9, 2025

Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol enables seamless communication and collaboration between AI agents across vendors and platforms, unlocking secure, cross-agent interoperability.

Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud

Google Agent Development Kit

Apr 9, 2025

Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) offers a modular framework for building AI agents with Gemini models, supporting both simple and complex multi-agent applications.

Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud

Google Ironwood TPU

Apr 9, 2025

Google unveils Ironwood, its most powerful and efficient TPU yet—purpose-built for inference and optimized for large-scale “thinking models” like LLMs and MoEs.

Google Amin Vahdat Ironwood: The first Google TPU for the age of inference

NVidia Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B

Apr 8, 2025

NVIDIA’s Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B is a reasoning-optimized LLM with 128K context length, fine-tuned for chat, RAG, and tool use—runnable on a single 8xH100 node.

NVIDIA NIM llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1 Model by NVIDIA | NVIDIA NIM



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