# This Week in All Things AI - Week 40-2025

> Sunday 28th September 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025

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**Published on:** 2025-10-05
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Headline releases in the preceding week were Deepseek-3.2-Exp, Sonnet 4.5 model from Anthropic, GLM-4.6 from Zhipu, Sora 2 video model from OpenAI 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 28th Sep 2025 to Saturday 4th Oct 2025Sunday 28th September 2025Monday 29th September 20251DeepSeek AI released DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp , as an experimental upgrade to its V3.1-Terminus model, introducing DeepSeek Sparse Attention to reduce computational costs for long text sequences. The model delivers up to three times faster prefill speeds and eight times cheaper decoding at 128,000 tokens while matching benchmarks in knowledge, reasoning, and math tasks. It is now open-source on Hugging Face, integrated into DeepSeek's API with over 50% price cuts, and optimized for frameworks like SGLang. https://x.com/i/trending/19726337772362794282Poster: Dima KuchinDoes AI Get Bored?We always give AI something to do. Chat with us, do tasks for us, answer questions, parse text. What happens when we give an AI nothing to do? I didn't know, so I tried. I told it that it had "10 hours" and nothing to do, and to use that time however it wanted.https://timkellogg.me 3Poster: Vano AI explainer videos from a former Google Research engineer https://www.youtube.com/@juliaturc1/videos She has some amazing content and explains very well too. Found her channel just recently and wanted to share here with the wider community.4Poster: Dima Kuchin Sonnet 4.5 is outIntroducing Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world, strongest model for building complex agents, and best model at using computers.https://www.anthropic.comTuesday 30th September 2025Zhipu Launches GLM-4.6 with Enhanced Coding and Agentic Capabilities and increase in context length from 128K to 200K Welcome to use my referral link to join their Coding Plan which currently starts at USD 3/month for 120 prompts every 5 hours You get an instant 10% off on your first order.🚀 You’ve been invited to join the GLM Coding Plan! Enjoy full support for Claude Code, Cline, and 10+ top coding tools — starting at just $3/month. Subscribe now and grab the limited-time deal! Link： https://z.ai/subscribe?ic=G4THO0EWYHVarious threads on X about GLM-4.6 including benchmarks https://x.com/i/trending/1972980172706951265Wednesday 1st October 20251Poster: Just | LDA Sora 2 released 2Replit acquires OpenInt which powers its Replit Connectors that is being launched today IMHO, Replit Connectors open up a lot of possibility for corporate or individual vibe coders to build custom automations/integrations https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7378880035451023360/ Replit ⠕ @Replit Introducing Connectors—a new way to build apps and automations that integrate seamlessly with the tools you already use every day Connectors make it effortless to extend your apps with services like @Google , @Dropbox , @HubSpot , @linear , @NotionHQ , @asana, @SlackHQ 581 11:48 PM • Sep 30, 2025 Replit - Introducing ConnectorsBuild Apps & Automations That Work With the Tools You Already Use Today, we're excited to launch Connectors-a new way to build apps and automations that seamlessly integrate with the tools you already rely on every day.https://blog.replit.com3One of the clearest explantion of Context Engineering that I've seen. Encourage those who are building/creating agents to read thisEffective context engineering for AI agentsAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.https://www.anthropic.comThursday 2nd October 20251Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models, in private beta with support for Qwen and Llama Andrej Karpathy @karpathy Tinker is cool. If you're a researcher/developer, tinker dramatically simplifies LLM post-training. You retain 90% of algorithmic creative control (usually related to data, loss function, the algorithm) while tinker handles the hard parts that you usually want to touch much less Thinking Machines @thinkymachines Introducing Tinker: a flexible API for fine-tuning language models. Write training loops in Python on your laptop; we'll run them on distributed GPUs. Private beta starts today. We can't wait to see what researchers and developers build with cutting-edge open models! 5,805 12:52 AM • Oct 2, 2025 Announcing TinkerIntroducing Tinker: a flexible API for fine-tuning language models.https://thinkingmachines.ai2Aqua which is a voice-input app on Mac/Windows with a SOTA [state-of-the-art] model Avalon is offering a great deal for students who subscribe to its paid plan via their .edu address Students — get 70% off when you sign up with your .edu email https://withaqua.com/share?code=YG-JJJVFriday 3rd October 2025Perplexity's agentic browser Comet is now generally available to download for everyone (free, Pro and Max users)! Desktop version: https://perplexity.ai/comet Mobile will coming in the next few weeks A prompt engineering guide from Perplexity on how to get the best out of Comet Cameron Stow @camerontstow How you prompt Comet matters more than you think. Here's my prompt engineering guide to getting the best results from Comet: 561 2:13 AM • Aug 22, 2025 Saturday 4th October 2025I welcome feedback not only on this newsletter but across all the various surfaces where I curate content The cover image of this newsletter via generated via the Mystic 2.5 Flexible model from within the Freepik tool via the following promptFloating geometric shapes bloom into vibrant, multicolored flowers mid-air on a sunny spring day, Memphis design with painterly textures, set against a clear blue sky.Regards, Yusuf

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