Table of Contents

• Ainsider AI: Your Weekly Dose of AI Innovation

  • OpenAI – New Models: GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini

  • Key Features of the Models

  • Google – Gemini 2.5 Flash

  • Kling AI – Kling 2.0

  • Canva – Visual Suite 2.0

  • Microsoft – Copilot Enhancements

  • xAI – Grok Studio and Memories

  • OpenAI – Codex CLI

  • ByteDance – Seaweed-7B Video

  • Anthropic – Claude Autonomous Research

• New AI Agents, Tools, and Models in the Ainsider.t …

Ainsider AI: Your Weekly Dose of AI Innovation

The most important AI news and releases from the past week:

OpenAI – New Models: GPT-4.1, o3, and o4-mini

OpenAI has introduced three groundbreaking new models: GPT-4.1 (available exclusively through the API), o3 (the most intelligent reasoning model capable of "thinking in images" and autonomously using tools), and o4-mini (a faster version with advanced capabilities).

GPT-4.1: Accessible only via the API, featuring enhancements in coding and understanding long contexts.

o3: The most advanced reasoning model, capable of "thinking in images" and autonomously utilizing tools.

o4-mini: A faster and more economical version with similar capabilities, available in ChatGPT.

Key Features of the Models

GPT-4.1:

• Coding: Significantly improved in creating and debugging code, as well as adhering to diff formats.

• Longer Context: Supports up to 1 million tokens, ideal for large datasets.

• Multimodality: Understands text, images, and video.

• Pricing: $0.15 per million input tokens, $3.50 per million output tokens with reasoning.

o3:

• Reasoning: "Thinks" before responding, enhancing quality and accuracy.

• Image Thinking: Analyzes images, such as diagrams and drawings.

• Tools: Autonomously uses ChatGPT functions like web browsing and image generation.

• Benchmark Results: 92.7% in AIME 2025 (mathematics), 69.1% in SWE-Bench Verified (coding), 82.9% in MMMU (visual reasoning).

o4-mini:

• Economy: Faster and cheaper, with similar capabilities to o3.

• Visual Reasoning: Interprets images and performs visual tasks.

• Tools: Utilizes ChatGPT functions.

• Benchmark Results: 68.1% in SWE-Bench Verified (coding).

• Variants: Standard and "o4-mini-high" with a higher level of reasoning.

Google – Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash is Google's new groundbreaking AI model that combines advanced reasoning capabilities with cost-effectiveness and speed. Its key features, such as hybrid reasoning, massive context support, multimodality, and integration with Google tools, make it a versatile tool for developers and users. The model is available for free in a preview version, allowing easy exploration of its capabilities.

Key Features and Capabilities:

• Hybrid Reasoning Model:

  • The first fully hybrid reasoning model, enabling it to "think" before responding, improving performance and accuracy.

  • Developers can toggle the "thinking" feature on or off and set a "thinking budget" (from 0 to 24576 tokens), allowing customization of quality, cost, and latency for specific tasks. The model autonomously assesses task complexity and adjusts thinking intensity if no budget is specified.

• Massive Context:

  • Supports 1 million tokens in the input context, enabling the processing of very large datasets like long documents, codebases, and system logs.

• Multimodality:

  • Understands and processes various data types, including text, images, audio, and video. It can generate images and detect objects in photos (e.g., by generating bounding boxes or segmentation masks).

• Code Execution:

  • Can write and execute Python code directly, which is extremely useful for developers.

• Cost Efficiency:

  • Priced at $0.15 per 1 million input tokens and $3.50 per 1 million output tokens with thinking enabled. The model is considered best-in-class for its price-to-performance ratio, placing it on the "Pareto frontier" for costs and efficiency.

• Benchmark Results:

  • Excels in diverse tasks, including:

    • Humanity's Last Exam (no tools): 18.8%.

    • GPQA diamond (one-shot): 84.0%.

    • Mathematics AIME 2025 (one-shot): 86.7%.

    • Visual Reasoning MMMU (one-shot): 81.7%.

    • Long Contexts MRCR 1M: 83.1%.

  • These results demonstrate the model's speed, efficiency, and precision in complex tasks.

• Integration with Google Workspace:

  • Seamlessly integrates with Google products like Gmail, Docs, and Sheets, facilitating user workflows within a familiar environment.