AI Tools Weekly 🚀: Claude upgrades, Google AI Plus, Perplexity Comet boost

🌐 Claude mobile → now finds nearby places with location
🌐 Claude can make Excel, Docs, Slides, PDFs

🔼 Gemini web → new “Select & Ask” in Canvas
🔼 Google AI Plus (Indonesia) → AI tools + 200GB + Gemini in apps

🔥 Jules SWE Agent → now takes image uploads
🔥 Flow + Veo 3 → new aspect ratios, portrait videos for socials

🔥 Perplexity Comet → adds local MCPs → AI can access files + apps, making it a full productivity hub

 

📱Apple was quiet on AI updates at its hardware event, with the only interesting update being Apple Intelligence-powered live translation and health monitoring features.

🌐ByteDance Seed introduced Seedream 4.0, a new image generation and editing model that competes with Nano Banana with 4K outputs and multimodal capabilities.

🤑Baidu launched ERNIE X1.1, a new reasoning model that nears GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in benchmarks with significant hallucination reduction.

🤖Anthropic released an official report confirming issues in response quality over the last month, reiterating that the company “never intentionally degrades model quality.”

🪐Drugmaking giant Eli Lilly announced the release of TuneLab, an AI drug discovery platform trained on over $1B worth of its proprietary research data.

🤑Tencent open-sourced HunyuanImage 2.1, a new image generation model with high-quality realism, prompt following, and text rendering.

📱 Meta is entering a $140M multi-year partnership with Black Forest Labs to use its AI image tech, coming on the heels of the company’s recent deal with Midjourney.

📱 Google added new capabilities to its Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast models, including vertical video outputs, 1080p HD resolution, and a 50% decrease in price.

👉Trending AI Tools👈

😵 NotebookLM - New tools like flashcards, quizzes, and redesigned reports

😵 Ideogram Styles - Create consistent aesthetics and stylized typography

😵 HunyuanImage 2.1 - Tencent’s new open-source text-to-image model

💻 Adobe introduced the AI Agent Orchestrator program with six specialized agents, including Audience Agent and Journey Agent, to automate CX and marketing.

📱Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab published research on making AI responses more consistent and predictable, taking its initial step toward sharing work openly.

📱Stability AI launched Stable Audio 2.5, a new audio model for enterprise-grade outputs that can create three-minute tracks in seconds.

The UAE released K2 Think, a 32B parameter open-source reasoner built on Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 model with speed and strong performance
despite its small size.

📱ElevenLabs introduced Voice Remixing, a new feature allowing users to change aspects of both designed and user voices for more customizable outputs.

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🤖 Claude - Now create files for PowerPoint slides, Excel sheets, and PDFs

💻 Seedream 4.0 - ByteDance’s unified image creation and editing model

📱 ERNIE X1.1 - Baidu’s new SOTA reasoning model

📱 Veo 3 - Google’s video AI, now with 1080p vertical outputs, reduced price

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