This week in terms of news and information about models and AI tools has been akin to drinking water from a firehose. We've tried to curate as much as possible in the group (Grok 4.1, Grok 4.1-Fast, Gemini 3, Gemini 3 Pro Image aka Nana Banana Pro etc) but I think a lot of news slipped past the cracks
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The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 16th Nov 2025 to Saturday 22nd Nov 2025
1 | Introducing Grok 4.1, a frontier model that sets a new standard for conversational intelligence, emotional understanding, and real-world helpfulness.
Introducing Grok 4.1, a frontier model that sets a new standard for conversational intelligence, emotional understanding, and real-world helpfulness.
Grok 4.1 is available for free on grok.com, grok.x.com and our mobile apps. 
x.ai
Grok 4.1 | xAIGrok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as “Grok 4.1” in the model picker. |
2 | Cloudflare acquires Replicate https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-cloudflare
We’re building the AI cloud
We’ve assembled all the primitives on top of our network Now we’re adding the best team, and models to execute Welcome @Replicate team
Big news: Replicate is joining Cloudflare.
Replicate's going to carry on as a distinct brand, and all that will happen is that it’s going to get way better: it’ll be faster, we’ll have more resources, and it’ll integrate with the rest of Cloudflare’s Developer Platform. 
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1 | Google launched Gemini 3 introducing its most intelligent AI model with superior reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic coding capabilities that enable users to build applications from ideas. The flagship Gemini 3 Pro leads benchmarks like LMSYS Chatbot Arena at 1501 Elo and ARC-AGI-2 at 31.11% accuracy, outperforming models from xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI. Developers can access it via the Gemini API and tools such as Google Antigravity, with integrations in Search, the Gemini app, GitHub Copilot, and Visual Studio Code.
Introducing Gemini 3
 It’s the best model in the world for multimodal understanding, and our most powerful agentic + vibe coding model yet. Gemini 3 can bring any idea to life, quickly grasping context and intent so you can get what you need with less prompting. Find Gemini 
Introducing Gemini 3 Pro, the world's most intelligent model that can help you being anything to life.
It is state of the art across most benchmarks, but really comes to life across our products (AI Studio, the Gemini API, Gemini App, etc) 
 https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/ https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-developers/ |
2 | From Google DevRel -- We wrote a Gemini 3 Developer Guide including all new API features, Migration strategies, and technical details for building with Gemini 3 Pro preview: - Control reasoning via thinking_level low and high modes. - per part media_resolution for better multimodal reasoning - Preserve reasoning context with mandatory Thought Signatures. - Combine Structured Outputs with built-in tools like Google Search. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/gemini-3?thinking=high |
3 | Kling just rolled out their Black Friday specials. 50% off annual subscriptions. 40% off credit reups.  |
4 | ElevenLabs Launches Image and Video Beta for Unified AI Creation ElevenLabs unveiled its Image & Video beta , allowing users to generate images and videos using advanced models like Flux Kontext, Google's Veo, OpenAI's Sora, and others, then integrate them with synthetic audio, music, and sound effects in a single platform. The Studio app enables lip-sync narration and editing on a unified timeline, aimed at marketers, filmmakers, and hobbyists. Early users have created complete videos with voiceovers in under 20 seconds, with reactions showing enthusiasm for the streamlined workflow alongside discussions on its implications for AI content production.
Introducing ElevenLabs Image & Video - the best audio, image and video models now in one platform.
Generate with leading models like Veo, Sora, Kling, Wan and Seedance, then enhance with the highest quality voices, music, and sound effects. 
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1 | Ramp which announced a $300 million funding round on November 17, 2025, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, pushing its valuation to $32 billion in its fourth raise this year. also announced via its Ramp Labs the following ---- Today, we’re launching Ramp Sheets, the AI spreadsheet editor built to 10x finance teams, operators, and founders. Ramp Sheets plans, executes, and formats automatically. It’s already being used to model budgets, forecast revenue, and reconcile financial statements. |
2 | From: Just LDA Veed launched background expand tool for AI video:
Introducing VEED AI Background Expand.
World's first to offer AI resizing for 1 min. videos. • Resize for every platform • Maximise reach for your content • No ugly chops or edits  FREE 500 Credits in DM for first 200 users, who:• Retweet • Comment "VEED" 
Gemini 3 making some really cool websites with single prompts:
Gemini 3.0 one shotted this awesome website
it's over for frontend devs 
Gemini 3 can also make games, like Metal Slug:
Everyone says “Gemini 3 can make games.”
So we tested it — with a Metal Slug-style prompt on both Gemini and Gambo. Same input. Completely different output. Here’s the result. #gemini3 #gemini_for_game 
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3 | Introducing Grok 4.1 Fast and the xAI Agent Tools API.
For the next two weeks, our models and tools will be free on select platforms: We’ve partnered with OpenRouter to make the Grok 4.1 Fast models available for free. We’re offering all agentic tools via the xAI Agent Tools API completely free.
Introducing Grok 4.1 Fast and the xAI Agent Tools API.
Grok 4.1 Fast is our best tool-calling model to date. With a 2M context window, it shines in real-world use cases like customer support and deep research. x.ai/news/grok-4-1-… 
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4 | It's raining models this week with OpenAI also joining the party with a quiet launch of 5.1-Pro which has a few people raving about it. --- GPT-5.1 Pro is rolling out today to all Pro users. It delivers clearer, more capable answers for complex work, with strong gains in writing help, data science, and business tasks.
GPT-5.1 Pro is rolling out today to all Pro users.
It delivers clearer, more capable answers for complex work, with strong gains in writing help, data science, and business tasks.
GPT-5.1 in ChatGPT is rolling out to all users this week.
It’s smarter, more reliable, and a lot more conversational. openai.com/index/gpt-5-1
I've had access to GPT-5.1 Pro for the last week.
It's a fucking monster... easily the most capable and impressive model I've ever used. But it's not all positive. Here's my review of GPT-5.1 Pro: shumer.dev/gpt51proreview
OpenAI just quietly released "GPT-5.1 Pro".
This is the [REDACTED] I was talking about. 
Just had my mind absolutely melted by [REDACTED]. Can’t wait to talk about it
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5 | From: Just LDA Just | LDA, [20 Nov 2025 at 12:34:14 PM (20 Nov 2025 at 12:41:55 PM)]: Pretty impressive stuff with SAM3: Examples of people using SAM3
SAM3 video tracking is so good
yesterday: collect data, train custom object detector, use tracker to estimate object motion - days today: track anything with text prompt - seconds 
Another SAM3 test on the usual suspect
Best to scrub through the video and pause on frames to see for yourself 
Well done to the SAM3D team. I haven't benchmarked it properly yet but this is definitely going to be the default backbone of choice for all 3d tasks by the back half of next year in the literature.
What a time to be alive 
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1 | Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/
New! Nano Banana Pro is on Poe!
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview) can make detailed, context-rich visuals, precisely edit or restyle input images with exceptional fidelity, and even generate legible text in images in multiple languages. (1/2)  |
2 | AI voice dictation startup Wispr Flow raised $25M led by Notable Capital, after raising a $30M Series A in June, taking its total funding to $81M FWIW, I have an annual subscription to Wispr Flow and I'm pretty happy with it. I wish I use it much more. Maybe after its Android version comes out
We’re thrilled to announce that Wispr Flow raised another $25M round after 10x'ing our revenue in just 5 months.
Our Series A2 was led by @hanstung at @notablecap (who was an early investor in five companies that made it to $100B valuation like Slack, Tiktok, and Airbnb). we 
we just raised another $25M after 10x'ing our ARR in 5 months. the crazy part is this almost never happened.
17 years ago, I watched Iron Man as a 10-year-old kid in Delhi. that night, I pulled my first all-nighter teaching myself to code. not because I wanted to build apps or 
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3 | Google rolled out Slide Decks in NotebookLM letting users upload documents, notes, or web clips to generate customizable presentations with visuals and narratives. Pro users got instant access, while free users will see it soon; it pairs with new Infographics powered by Google's Nano Banana Pro image model.
In honor of today's
 launch we decided to release not one but TWO new outputs:Starting with Infographics! Create customizable, high-quality, visual summaries of your sources. Information never looked so good. Rolling out to Pro users now and free users in the coming weeks! 
Next up… Slide Decks!
Turn your sources into a detailed deck for reading OR a set of presentation-ready slides. They are fully customizable, so you can tailor them to any audience, level, and style. Officially rolling out to Pro users now (free users in the coming weeks)! 
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Clocking in at over 17 hours of content are the livestreams/recording from the AI Engineer Code Summit curated by swyx of Cognition
Personally I'm going to wait a few days and let Google/Youtube churn through the video and spit out correct metadata and then have these videos be analysed by NotebookLM to generate some deep dives
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A cinematic, dark photograph of an ancient parchment map, weathered with intricate calligraphy, laid out on a polished mahogany table, gradually morphing into a vibrant, 3-dimensional landscape with shimmering turquoise rivers, lush emerald forests, and towering, mist-crowned mountains, diorama effect, captured from a high-angle shot that showcases the intricate details of the map and the sprawling, vivid terrain below, with birds flying over the mountains, animals moving in the valley, and a human hand pointing to an X on the map where they need to go.