# This Week in All Things AI - Week 47-2025

> Sunday 16th November 2025 to Saturday 22nd November 2025

**Published by:** [This Week in All Things AI](https://paragraph.com/@twiata/)
**Published on:** 2025-11-23
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## Content

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 I would like to encourage readers to write to me with their feedback about the content that I curate. Even short messages are appreciated 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 16th Nov 2025 to Saturday 22nd Nov 2025Sunday 16th November 2025Monday 17th November 2025Tuesday 18th November 20251Introducing Grok 4.1, a frontier model that sets a new standard for conversational intelligence, emotional understanding, and real-world helpfulness. xAI @xai 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 | xAI Grok 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. 12.5K 5:20 AM • Nov 18, 2025 2Cloudflare acquires Replicate https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-cloudflare Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001 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 Replicate @replicate 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. 670 11:22 PM • Nov 17, 2025 Wednesday 19th November 20251Google 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. Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai 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 21.4K 12:02 AM • Nov 19, 2025 Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK 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) 6,488 12:03 AM • Nov 19, 2025 https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/ https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemini-3-developers/2From 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=high3Kling just rolled out their Black Friday specials. 50% off annual subscriptions. 40% off credit reups. 4ElevenLabs 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. ElevenLabs @elevenlabsio 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. 818 1:34 AM • Nov 18, 2025 Thursday 20th November 20251Ramp 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. Ramp Labs @RampLabs 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. 1,468 12:09 AM • Nov 19, 2025 2From: Just LDA Veed launched background expand tool for AI video: VEED.IO | AI Video Creation @veedstudio 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" 868 11:08 PM • Nov 19, 2025 Gemini 3 making some really cool websites with single prompts: Prasenjit @Star_Knight12 Gemini 3.0 one shotted this awesome website it's over for frontend devs 8,302 3:39 PM • Nov 19, 2025 Gemini 3 can also make games, like Metal Slug: gambo.ai @Gambo_AI_Tool 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 222 10:19 AM • Nov 19, 2025 3Introducing 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. 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. xAI @xai 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-… 2,340 7:17 AM • Nov 20, 2025 https://x.ai/news/grok-4-1-fast4It'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. OpenAI @OpenAI 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. OpenAI @OpenAI 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 6,370 6:03 AM • Nov 20, 2025 Matt Shumer @mattshumer_ 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 814 5:54 AM • Nov 20, 2025 Theo - t3.gg @theo OpenAI just quietly released "GPT-5.1 Pro". This is the [REDACTED] I was talking about. Theo - t3.gg @theo Just had my mind absolutely melted by [REDACTED]. Can’t wait to talk about it 1,242 5:54 AM • Nov 20, 2025 5From: 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: https://ai.meta.com/sam3/ Examples of people using SAM3 SkalskiP @skalskip92 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 2,297 3:49 AM • Nov 20, 2025 A.I.Warper @AIWarper Another SAM3 test on the usual suspect Best to scrub through the video and pause on frames to see for yourself 569 3:59 AM • Nov 20, 2025 Astrid Wilde 🌞 @astridwilde1 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 3,086 3:17 AM • Nov 20, 2025 Friday 21st November 20251Google 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/ Poe @poe_platform 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) 104 1:46 AM • Nov 21, 2025 Deedy @deedydas I genuinely can't even begin to explain how good Nano Banana Pro is. — Infographics: Comic strips, menus, marketing, wedding invites, even fake receipts?!. This one-shots every thing I'd need Canva for. — Logo Design: It one-shotted every single logo design I threw it. New 1,264 11:14 PM • Nov 20, 2025 2AI 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 Wispr Flow @WisprFlow 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 231 12:17 AM • Nov 21, 2025 Tanay Kothari @tankots 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 3,166 11:58 PM • Nov 20, 2025 3Google 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. NotebookLM @NotebookLM 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! 4,836 2:30 AM • Nov 21, 2025 NotebookLM @NotebookLM 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)! 6,367 2:32 AM • Nov 21, 2025 Saturday 22nd November 2025Clocking 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 divesReaders 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 The cover image of this newsletter via generated via the Nano Banana Pro model within the Freepik tool via the following promptA 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.

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