News: 2025-08-03
Date: 08/03/2025
This week’s AI news roundup is a great snapshot of where the industry is heading, and for me, the big story is multimodality. I’m particularly excited about models like GLM-4.5 and X-Omni, which can understand text, images, and video all at once. This is the foundation for the next wave of automation, where tools like n8n can build workflows that aren’t limited to just text inputs and outputs. The update to Google’s NotebookLM is a perfect practical example, now letting you get summaries and ask questions about videos directly. Imagine dropping a product demo into a workflow and having it automatically generate documentation or marketing copy—that’s where this is going. On the creative side, the new open-source FLUX model and Ideogram’s consistent character feature are huge for small teams needing quick, high-quality visuals without a design department.