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This Week In AI 2025 #7 - Mar 1 to Mar 8

A roundup of all the latest AI news and releases from Mar 1 to Mar 8, 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

Manus AI Agent

Mar 7, 2025

Manus is a powerful AI that automates any task effortlessly, from research to financial transactions. It browses the web, self-assigns tasks, and creates detailed itineraries with stays, budgets, and food guides.

Manus

Mistral OCR

Mar 7, 2025

Mistral OCR is a high-accuracy API for extracting text from images and PDFs, perfect for RAG systems and seamless document processing.

Mistral OCR | Mistral AI

Windsurf Wave 4

Mar 6, 2025

Wave 4 brings 8 key improvements, including previews, tab-to-import, linter integration, suggested actions, MCP discoverability, drag & drop, model admin controls, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet enhancements.

codeiumdev Windsurf Wave 4

Other Releases

NEX AI Ikon 2

Mar 8, 2025

NEX AI unveils Ikon-2, an AI model that generates 8MP (2K x 4K) images with exceptional product consistency. It delivers camera-quality results with enhanced lighting, contrast, and textures, ideal for beauty, beverage, and other industries.

Twitter NEX on Twitter / X

Luma Ray2 Flash

Mar 8, 2025

Ray2 Flash is 3× faster and 3× cheaper, bringing production-ready Text-to-Video, Image-to-Video, audio, and control capabilities. Create high-quality content faster, more affordably, and without limits.

Twitter Luma AI on Twitter / X

Tavus Phoenix-3

Mar 7, 2025

Phoenix-3 is the first replica model to achieve full-face rendering with dynamic emotion control, capturing every micro-expression, movement, and emotion with precision.

Phoenix

Tencent’s HunyuanVideo I2V

Mar 6, 2025

Tencent’s HunyuanVideo I2V expands its text-to-video model to image-to-video, now open-source with customizable special effects via LoRA training.

Qwen QwQ-32B

Mar 6, 2025

QwQ-32B is a powerful open-source model excelling in advanced reasoning, rivaling OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek-R1 on benchmarks like AIME and MATH.

huggingface Qwen/QwQ-32B · Hugging Face

Microsoft’s Dragon Copilot

Mar 3, 2025

Dragon Copilot is a voice AI assistant that enhances clinical documentation through dictation and ambient listening, automating tasks like note creation for healthcare professionals.

Stories Microsoft Source Microsoft Dragon Copilot provides the healthcare industry’s first unified voice AI assistant that enables clinicians to streamline clinical documentation, surface information and automate tasks - Stories



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