# This Week in All Things AI - Week 38-2025

> Sunday 14th September 2025 to Saturday 20th September 2025

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**Published on:** 2025-09-21
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Greetings friends, Yet another edition of my weekly newsletter 'This Week in All Things AI' Readers who think others in their family, friends and acquaintances who have a curiosity in knowing more about rapidly evolving AI tools/services/use cases would benefit from being subscribers of this weekly newsletter are encouraged to share this publication link to them and invite them to subscribe For those who use RSS readers to aggregate their reading of news such as the delightful NetNewsWire [MacOS,iOS, iPadOS] or Feedly [web, iOS, Android], this weekly newsletter is also available via the following RSS feed https://paragraph.com/api/blogs/rss/%40twiata Below is my personal website which aggregates links to many of my socials as well as content and community that I curategoolamabbas | Instagram, TikTok | LinktreeChief Knowledge Officer @ Animoca Brands. Also assists in Growth Marketinghttps://linktr.eeThe following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 14th Sep 2025 to Saturday 20th Sep 2025Sunday 14th September 2025Monday 15th September 2025Snippets from Lenny Rachitsky recent podcastAEO [Answer Engine Optimisation] has been the biggest change in search and the largest new marketing channel in over a decade. Companies optimizing for AI answers are seeing 6x higher conversion rates than Google traffic, and unlike SEO (which can take years to drive impact), early-stage startups can win at AEO immediately. Ethan Smith and his team at Graphite have been at the forefront of the rise of AEO (also known as GEO), and have discovered a number of tactics for getting ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Perplexity to recommend your product or website more often. This conversation is the most comprehensive and tactical AEO resource you'll find. Many months of research and tests went into the tactics we discuss. The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)Listen to this episode from Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth on Spotify. Ethan Smith is the CEO of Graphite-the leading SEO growth agency-and my go-to expert on SEO. After 18 years of mastering traditional SEO, Ethan has been at the forefront of what is called AEO: answer engine optimization, or, more simply, getting your product to show up in ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Perplexity answers.https://spotify.comTuesday 16th September 2025Poster: Robby Yung This is a great long read if anyone is interested in the bigger picture of AI development: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/16/song-chun-zhu-why-one-of-the-worlds-most-brilliant-ai-scientists-left-the-us-for-china Reply-by: Valerii Anufriev Interesting to see how US will keep up with China in the field of AI once hardware like semi-conductors isn't an issue anymore for Chinese AI industry Reply-by: M00 Very interesting. Parallels his predecessor Qian XueSen went through. Qian helped to build the foundation of China’s ballistic missile system. I think Professor Zhu will have a similar impact in AIWednesday 17th September 20251Gamma getting some hype on X from some AI a-listers post the launch of their 3.0 version Grant Lee @thisisgrantlee Excited to introduce: Gamma 3.0 A generational leap for the world's most popular AI presentation tool. Two major changes: 1. Gamma Agent - with one prompt, you can make sweeping edits across the presentation. a. Say 'make it more visual' and it will scan each slide for data 2,689 6:58 PM • Sep 16, 2025 Olivia Moore @omooretweets A new agentic slide deck generator has entered the chat I tested @meetgamma's new release (Gamma 3.0) by giving it a research paper to transform into a deck The agent can do research, grab images, and make transformations across slides in natural language 201 12:08 AM • Sep 17, 2025 Santiago @svpino This is the future of web design. Gamma 3.0 has just been released, and I used it to create a complete website from a URL in seconds. No prompts. No code. No input. Their new AI agent will design, review, fix, and iterate on your content. The best part: you can watch it in 264 12:40 AM • Sep 17, 2025 2ComfyUI one of the most important open-source platforms in creative AI powering millions of workflows across images, video, 3D, and audio raises $17M Funding and announces Comfy Cloud ComfyUI @ComfyUI We raised $17 million to build an OS for creative AI 784 9:07 PM • Sep 16, 2025 Comfy Raises $17M FundingBuilding the OS of creative AIhttps://blog.comfy.orgComfy CloudJoin the private beta. Comfy Cloud is a browser-based hosted ComfyUI where everything just works.https://blog.comfy.orgWhy We Invested in ComfyUI: Creativity Thrives in Open SystemsWe bring institutional experience and founder energy.https://www.chemistry.vcThursday 18th September 2025Friday 19th September 20251LumaAI just released Ray3 which they claim as the world’s first reasoning video model, and the first to generate studio-grade HDR. Now with an all-new Draft Mode for rapid iteration in creative workflows, and state of the art physics and consistency IMHO, The imagery from the video showreels are jaw dropping. For those who use LumaAI , would love your posts here on what you like/dislike about Ray3 after you kick its tires. Text-to-video and image-to-video have come a long way Luma AI @LumaLabsAI This is Ray3. The world’s first reasoning video model, and the first to generate studio-grade HDR. Now with an all-new Draft Mode for rapid iteration in creative workflows, and state of the art physics and consistency. Available now for free in Dream Machine. 12.2K 8:01 PM • Sep 18, 2025 Ray3 | Luma AIRay3 is an intelligent video model designed to tell stories. Ray3 is capable of thinking and reasoning in visuals and offers state-of-the-art physics and consistency. In a world's first, Ray3 generates videos in 16-bit High Dynamic Range color, bringing generative video to pro studio pipelines.https://lumalabs.ai 2Shamir Alibhai firing on all cylinders with yet another update to Eddie AI ---- We aren't building another NLE/video editing app. We're building your assistant editor that helps you create better stories, faster. We just launched 4 new features designed to do this: 🎬 Agentic Story Support – Drop a URL into Rough Cut mode and Eddie pulls out the client’s key messages + positioning which informs your story framework. Think of it as providing a backgrounder to the edit. (Add a treatment soon.) ⏱ Long-form Rough Cuts – Now up to 40 minutes!! (It used to be 10 min.) Perfect for YouTube videos, docs, interviews, webinars, and corporate storytelling that needs more runway. 🎤 Smarter B-Roll Logging – Eddie now uses speech recognition on B-roll too. If people are talking in background footage, it gets logged—so you never miss the nuance. 🖼 Auto Titles & Descriptions – Eddie now gives you the essentials for publishing to YouTube: a ready-to-go title and description with chapters. Eddie AI just got more agentic. We aren't building another NLE/video editing app. We're building your assistant editor that helps you create better stories, faster. We just launched 4 new features... | Shamir Allibhai | 13 commentsEddie AI just got more agentic. We aren't building another NLE/video editing app. We're building your assistant editor that helps you create better stories, faster. We just launched 4 new features designed to do this: 🎬 Agentic Story Support - Drop a URL into Rough Cut mode and Eddie pulls out the client's key messages + positioning which informs your story framework.https://www.linkedin.com Saturday 20th September 2025From xAI Introducing Grok 4 Fast, a multimodal reasoning model with a 2M context window that sets a new standard for cost-efficient intelligence. via Artificial Analysis xAI has released Grok 4 Fast - breaking through our intelligence vs cost frontier by achieving Gemini 2.5 Pro level intelligence at a ~25X cheaper cost https://x.ai/news/grok-4-fast Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys xAI has released Grok 4 Fast - breaking through our intelligence vs cost frontier by achieving Gemini 2.5 Pro level intelligence at a ~25X cheaper cost Intelligence: @xai shared with us pre-release access to Grok 4 Fast. In reasoning mode, the model scores an impressive 60 on 1,865 4:51 AM • Sep 20, 2025 I welcome feedback not only on this newsletter but across all the various surfaces where I curate content The cover image of this newsletter was generated via Freepik using Bytedance's Seedream 4.0 modelA highly detailed digital surreal landscape illustration in a flowing, wavy abstract style resembling layered brush strokes or fibers, featuring a vibrant sunset with a large glowing orange sun low on the horizon casting warm golden light, dramatic swirling sky in gradients of deep blue, turquoise, fiery orange, and pink hues extending downward into the undulating terrain of rolling hills and valleys patterned with rhythmic curving lines in earthy oranges, reds, and blues, scattered tall pine trees with dark silhouettes and some barren branches standing on elevated mounds, distant misty mountain peaks in the background under a hazy sky.Regards, Yusuf

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