Artificial Intelligence News & Trends: April 23, 2025 đ€
Do you leverage AI in your business? Here are the latest news and trends in the artificial intelligence realm:
- Open AI is considering acquiring Windsurf (an AI coding tool) for $3 billion. If this deal does take place, it would be OpenAIâs biggest acquisition.
- Meta is testing AI technology to protect teens. The AI searches for kids and teens who are lying about their age and enrolls them into restricted Teen Accounts.
- Grok introduced Grok Vision, which can see the world around you, translate it, and answer questions about it in real time. Grok Vision is available on iOS but not on Android yet.
- xAI: Is Elon Musk getting ready for a big financial move? According to CNBCâs David Faber, Musk is looking to put âproper valueâ on his xAI startup. Usually, that happens when a company is getting ready for something like a capital raise or an investment round.
- AI Animation Trends: Disaster and a Cat Savior and A Day In The Life Of An Orange Cat (that either takes care of his friends or kills them).
- Microsoft introduced the Copilot Merchant Program. This program allows retailers to integrate product catalogs with the Microsoft AI-powered Copilot platform, giving shoppers a personal AI shopping assistant.
- ChatGPT: While new AI releases are considered state-of-the-art and impressive, theyâre not perfect. The new ChatGPT models (o3 and o4-mini) have been proven to hallucinate more than the older versions. Transluce investigated their accuracy.
- ChatGPT Trend: ChatGPT is being used to determine the location shown in pictures. Some people love this geo-guessing feature, and some say it is a potential privacy issue.
- ElevenLabs added a Professional Voice Cloning feature. You can now programmatically create voices, manage audio samples, initiate training, and more.
- ElevenLabs also added options to include or exclude timestamps and speaker IDs when exporting Speech to Text results via the API.
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