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This Week's AI News Updates (Feb 13, 2025)
✅ Google has released its new AI-powered image generation tool, Whisk, making it available in South Korea https://www.neowin.net/news/googles-a... ✅ EU mobilizes $200 billion in AI race against US and China https://www.theverge.com/news/609930/... ✅ ByteDance Unveils Goku to Take on Google’s Luma and OpenAI’s Sora https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news... ✅ OpenAI partners with Korea’s Kakao after inking SoftBank Japanese JV https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/ope... ✅ AI researchers at Stanford created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50 https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/res... ✅ Amazon reportedly gears up to release next-gen Alexa https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/ama... ✅ GitHub Copilot brings mockups to life by generating code from images https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/git... ✅ Meta launches new program to improve speech and translation AI https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/met... ✅ OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/ope... ✅ ChatGPT’s advanced AI costs $200/mo. It’s now free for Windows users https://www.pcworld.com/article/25938...
✅ Google has released its new AI-powered image generation tool, Whisk, making it available in South Korea
https://www.neowin.net/news/googles-a...
✅ EU mobilizes $200 billion in AI race against US and China
https://www.theverge.com/news/609930/...
✅ ByteDance Unveils Goku to Take on Google’s Luma and OpenAI’s Sora
https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news...
✅ OpenAI partners with Korea’s Kakao after inking SoftBank Japanese JV
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/ope...
✅ AI researchers at Stanford created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/res...
✅ Amazon reportedly gears up to release next-gen Alexa
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/ama...
✅ GitHub Copilot brings mockups to life by generating code from images
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/06/git...
✅ Meta launches new program to improve speech and translation AI
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/met...
✅ OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/07/ope...
