🟣 Latest AI News Roundup 👑 Qwen

A Curated Collection of AI Innovations January 2025

Every Friday in 2025, I find my way through the AI discussion cloud.

I highlight what’s changing in AI-boosted artistry. Check the week’s fresh advances, measured by their influence.

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1️⃣ Alibaba_Qwen launched its AI FREE web app

2️⃣ NVIDIA introduced Project DIGITS

3️⃣ text-to-cad public alpha

4️⃣ o1 PRO "Loss Leader"

5️⃣ 2025 New Sell AI Art

6️⃣ Microsoft’s Phi-4

7️⃣ Runway ML 4K

8️⃣ 🌮 TACO

👑 Alibaba Qwen Web App Launch

Alibaba’s Qwen team launched their AI web app (chat.qwenlm.ai) with new features including HTML rendering in artifacts and file upload capabilities

🚨 FREE twin of ChatGPT 130K context window

NVIDIA Project DIGITS

NVIDIA announced a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Project DIGITS, featuring the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip delivering 1 petaflop of AI performance, 128GB unified memory, and aimed at AI developers and researchers

Zoo.dev Text-to-CAD

Zoo.dev released a public alpha of their Text-to-CAD tool that generates 3D models from text prompts, offering 40 free minutes monthly and supporting exports to popular CAD formats like STEP, STL, and GLTF

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pro Losses

Sam Altman revealed that OpenAI is losing money on its $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscription due to unexpectedly high usage of the o1 “reasoning” model and other feature

AI Art Trends 2025

The art world is seeing a shift away from pure AI-generated art toward more strategic experiences, with technology becoming integrated as a tool rather than the focus

Microsoft Phi-4 Release

Microsoft released Phi-4, a 14B parameter language model, on Hugging Face with MIT license, showing strong performance in math and coding tasks compared to larger models

Runway ML 4K Capability

Runway announced new 4K upscaling capabilities for their AI platform, expanding their video generation and editing capabilities

Salesforce TACO Models

Salesforce released TACO (Toolkit for Action-Chains Operations), a family of multimodal AI models designed to improve performance on complex, multi-step tasks using synthetic chains-of-thought-and-action