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This Week in AI 2025 #2 - Jan 26 to Feb 1

A roundup of all the latest AI news and releases from Jan 26 to Feb 1, 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

OpenAI o3-mini

Jan 31, 2025

OpenAI unveiled two new powerful and fast reasoning models: o3-mini and o3-mini-high. These models excel in math, coding, and science.

OpenAI OpenAI o3-mini

DeepSeek Janus-Pro-7B

Jan 27, 2025

DeepSeek unveiled a new open-source AI model named Janus-Pro-7B. This multimodal LLM possesses the ability to comprehend visual information and generate images.

huggingface deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B · Hugging Face

Alibaba Qwen2.5-Max

Jan 28, 2025

Qwen2.5-Max is an AI model that can perform various tasks, including working with code, writing text, searching the web, generating images, and even creating videos.

Qwen Qwen Team Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the Intelligence of Large-scale MoE Model

Kimi Reasoning Model

Jan 26, 2025

Kimi unveiled its Kimi k1.5 multimodal AI model, which is comparable to OpenAI's o1 model, having a context of 128k and the ability to process both text and visual inputs.

Twitter Kimi.ai on Twitter / X

Twitter Kimi.ai on Twitter / X

Other Releases

Google AI Weather Forecast

Jan 31, 2025

Google unveiled its most cutting-edge AI models for weather forecasting, called WeatherNext. These models significantly enhanced disaster response capabilities and allowed the seamless integration of real-time and historical data, accelerating research efforts.

Google DeepMind WeatherNext

Krea AI Chat

Jan 30, 2025

This new tool integrates every Krea feature into a chat interface using DeepSeek

Twitter KREA AI on Twitter / X

Mistral Small 3

Jan 30, 2025

Mistral Small 3 is a pre-trained and instruction-following model designed to handle tasks which demand language comprehension and adherence to instructions while maintaining low latency. It is comparable to Llama 3.3 70B and Qwen 32B, and it has the potential to replace GPT4o-mini.

Mistral AI Mistral Small 3

Pika 2.1 Video Generation Model

Jan 28, 2025

Pika released the newest model called Pika 2.1. It comes with 1080p resolution and more details, seamless motion, and lifelike human characters.

Twitter Pika on Twitter / X

DeepSeek R1 in Perplexity

Jan 27, 2025

Perplexity now enables deep web research using the powerful DeepSeek reasoning model.

Twitter Perplexity on Twitter / X



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