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It’s been a big week in the world of AI—and things are moving fast.

First up, Ideogram 3.0 just dropped, and it’s seriously raising the bar for generative images. Think: sharper text, next-level photorealism, and a new feature that lets you upload reference images to lock in your style. Whether you’re creating logos, posters, or product shots, it’s got the kind of precision and polish that makes you do a double take.

Then there’s Qwen2.5-Omni, a new model built to handle everything—text, images, audio, video—all at once, in real time. It can chat with you through natural-sounding voice, understand what it sees and hears, and respond like a pro. Basically, it’s one step closer to an AI that can truly keep up with how we think and communicate.

And finally, Perplexity is making search feel way smarter with new answer modes. Instead of digging through tabs, you get tailored answers depending on what you're looking for—travel, shopping, videos, even jobs. It’s clean, quick, and super helpful, with more features rolling out soon.

So yeah—AI’s not just evolving. It’s getting way more useful, creative, and intuitive. And this is just the beginning.Explore the future, now.

Redefining Generative Media with Realism, Style, and Precision

Ideogram 3.0 is a new generative media model that significantly advances image-prompt alignment, photorealism, and text rendering quality, outperforming other models in human evaluations. It introduces Style References, allowing users to upload reference images to guide the style of generations, and offers a Random style feature for exploring diverse aesthetics. The model excels in creating stylized, accurate text for graphic design, advertising, and marketing, enabling the generation of professional-quality logos, promotional posters, and product photography. Ideogram 3.0 also achieves stunning realism, blurring the lines between generated and real imagery, and is now available to all users on ideogram.ai.

Qwen Unveiled Real-Time Multimodal AI

Qwen2.5-Omni, the new flagship end-to-end multimodal model in the Qwen series, has been released, designed for comprehensive multimodal perception, it seamlessly processes diverse inputs including text, images, audio, and video, while delivering real-time streaming responses through both text generation and natural speech synthesis, showcasing strong performance across modalities and excelling in end-to-end speech instruction following, rivaling its effectiveness with text inputs. It supports real-time voice and video chat with natural and robust speech generation, and is available for use via ModelScope, Transformers, API inference, and online demos, with cookbooks provided for various usage cases.

Perplexity Launches Precise Answer Modes for Smarter Search

Perplexity is excited to announce the introduction of answer modes aimed at enhancing the search experience across various verticals, including travel, shopping, places, images, videos, and jobs. This innovative feature allows users to receive highly precise answers tailored to their specific needs without the hassle of navigating through different tabs. By streamlining the search process, we aim to make it easier and faster for users to find relevant information. Currently available on the web, these improvements are set to roll out on mobile devices soon, ensuring that users can enjoy a seamless experience across all platforms. Stay tuned for updates as we continue to refine our core search product and bring even more functionality to your fingertips!

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Top AI Products from this week

• SimplAI - A single platform for building, deploying, and managing Agentic AI in any environment - on-prem, cloud, or hybrid. It provides robust governance, security, and scalability, so you can launch AI applications simpler and faster.

• Scene 2.0 - Scene is redefining the way modern websites are created—enabling designers and agency teams to ideate, build, and publish websites from a single canvas, with AI empowering their ideation process without limiting customization or creativity.

• ActionKit - With a single API call, ActionKit (by Paragon) equips your product's AI agents with 1000+ integration actions across CRMs, ticketing platforms, email, Slack, and more. Paragon is trusted by enterprise AI companies like AI21, You.com, and Copy.ai.

• Kilo Code for VS Code - Kilo AI is an AI-powered extension for VS Code which writes, fixes and improves your code through simple chat. Tuned with the fastest models we could find, it can create and modify files, run command line prompts, and much more.

• Redactable - Redactable uses AI to find and permanently remove sensitive information from documents—unlike traditional methods that leave data vulnerable to bad actors. Save 98% of time while ensuring protection across legal, healthcare, and financial sectors.

• EmemeAI - Bring your AI character to life♡ Without code, You can create 3D chat AI characters, and connect them to external apps, social media, metaverse and games to use as AI-NPCs. They generate not only chat, but also voices and animations. It's free.

This week in AI

• MCP Support Expands - MCP is now in the Agents SDK! Coming soon: support for ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API, enhancing integration across platforms.

• BMW-Alibaba AI Partnership - BMW and Alibaba expand collaboration in China, integrating Qwen AI into Neue Klasse cars by 2026. Features include intelligent assistants for seamless in-car experiences234

• LTX Studio Overview - Transform ideas into stunning visuals with AI. Create storyboards, design characters, edit scenes, and collaborate seamlessly. Pitch-ready presentations in one click!

• Grok AI Launches on Telegram - Elon Musk's Grok AI is now available on Telegram, reaching over 1 billion users. It's free for Premium subscribers, enhancing chat with real-time reasoning and coding capabilities.