AI News of January 4, 2026: OpenAI Grove, Your Year with ChatGPT, Qwen-Image-2512
Early 2026: OpenAI launches Grove for founders, Your Year with ChatGPT rolled out, 2025 developer recap, and Qwen-Image-2512 available.
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AI News December 31, 2025: Grok Business, Manus joins Meta, WAN 2.6
End of 2025: xAI launches Grok Business and Collections API, Manus joins Meta AI, WAN 2.6 improves video consistency, Runway and Adobe partner up.
Z.ai: GLM-4.7 dominates open-source and IPO approaches
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) launches GLM-4.7, new open-source leader surpassing GPT-5.1 on Vending-Bench2, and prepares for its IPO on January 8, 2026.
AI News December 29, 2025: Claude 2x Usage, Qwen TTS, Mistral Skills
Weekly recap: Claude 2x usage promo, Qwen3-TTS with voice cloning, Mistral Vibe CLI Skills, ChatGPT Atlas security, and Gemini photo editing.
AI News Dec 23: Qwen, xAI and Gemini Year-End Wrap-up
Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, Grok Collections API with integrated RAG, xAI-DOW partnership, NotebookLM Data Tables and Gemini CLI v0.22-23.
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FLUX.2 [max]: Black Forest Labs launches its most powerful model
Black Forest Labs unveils FLUX.2 [max] with web contextual generation and support for 10 reference images. World #2 on ArtificialAnlys.
Generative AI December 2025: Video, Image, Audio Booming
Generative AI news in December 2025: Luma Ray3 Modify, Pika API, Midjourney UI, ElevenLabs Music, Suno Personas and more.
Runway Gen-4.5: Towards World Models
Runway launches Gen-4.5 and details its Universal World Simulator vision. A video model that understands anatomy, physics, and motion.
GitHub Copilot December 2025: GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 in Force
December 2025 marks a major turning point for GitHub Copilot with the arrival of GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3, plus Agent Skills and Copilot Memory.
GPT-5.2-Codex, Skills and ChatGPT Images: OpenAI Accelerates for Developers
Week of December 15-21, 2025: GPT-5.2-Codex for agentic coding, official Skills support in Codex CLI, GPT Image 1.5 in API, ChatGPT Apps directory, new audio models.
Qwen December 2025: Qwen-Image-Layered revolutionizes image generation
December 2025: Alibaba launches Qwen-Image-Layered, an open-source image decomposition model into RGBA layers with Photoshop-level quality.
Claude in Chrome GA, Bloom and Project Vend: A Week Rich in Announcements
Week of December 15-21, 2025: Claude in Chrome available to all, Claude Code integration, Bloom for AI evaluations, Project Vend Phase 2, DOE Genesis Mission partnership.
Gemini 3 Flash: The Week That Changed the Game
Recap week 3 December 2025: Gemini 3 Flash launched December 17, available for free in Gemini App, AI Mode, and Gemini CLI v0.21.0.
Mistral AI in December 2025: Devstral 2, Mistral 3 and Vibe CLI
December 2025 recap: Devstral 2 (72% SWE-bench), Mistral Vibe CLI, Mistral 3 (Large 3, Ministral), Mistral OCR 3 for document processing.
xAI December 2025: Grok Voice Agent API and El Salvador Partnership
xAI launches the OpenAI Realtime compatible Grok Voice Agent API, and announces a historic partnership with El Salvador to educate 1 million children with Grok.
Claude Code December 2025: Slack, Async Subagents, Android and Plugins
All the new Claude Code features for December 2025: Slack integration, async subagents, Agent SDK updates, Android preview, plugins marketplace and more.
GPT-5.2 and Codex for Linear: OpenAI Lays the Foundations
Week of December 8-14, 2025: GPT-5.2 with GDPval 70.9% and SWE-Bench 80%, Codex for Linear to automate issues, State of Enterprise AI report.
MCP joins the Linux Foundation: birth of the Agentic AI Foundation
Week of December 8-14, 2025: Anthropic donates MCP to the Linux Foundation, creation of the Agentic AI Foundation with OpenAI and Block, Accenture partnership.
Anthropic Acquires Bun and Claude Code Reaches $1B
Week of December 1-7, 2025: Strategic acquisition of Bun, Claude Code hits $1 billion, $200M Snowflake partnership, and launch of Claude for Nonprofits.
GitHub Copilot 2025: From Autocomplete to Multi-Model Agentic Assistant
GitHub Copilot 2025 Retrospective: The evolution towards a multi-model assistant with agents, MCP Server, improved CLI, and new intelligent editing capabilities.
Qwen 2025: Alibaba's Meteoric Rise in Open-Source AI
2025 Retrospective: From Qwen2.5-Max to Qwen3-Coder, Alibaba Cloud establishes itself as a leader in open-source AI with models rivaling GPT-4 and Claude.
xAI 2025: From Grok 3 to Grok 4.1, Elon Musk's Meteoric Rise in AI
2025 Retrospective: xAI goes from Grok 3 Beta to Grok 4.1, conquers governments, and expands internationally.
Claude Opus 4.5: The World's Most Advanced AI Model
Complete analysis of Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic's new flagship model. Benchmarks, token efficiency, pricing, and enterprise feedback.
Gemini Autumn 2025: From Gemini 2.5 to Gemini 3
Retrospective September-November 2025: launch of Gemini CLI Extensions, Gemini 3 Pro, Nano Banana Pro, Deep Think mode, and 20 CLI versions.
Mistral AI Retrospective: From Le Chat MCP to AI Studio
Recap of Mistral AI announcements from September to November 2025: Le Chat with MCP connectors, Memories, AI Studio, 1.7B€ funding and European expansion.
Anthropic Retrospective: from Sonnet 4.5 to Opus 4.5
Recap of Anthropic announcements from September to November 2025: Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, Microsoft partnerships, Claude Desktop and more.