🤖 AI Weekly Recap (Week 45)

This week’s top AI news, breakthroughs, and game-changing updates

Author

Alvaro Cintas
November 09, 2025

Good morning, AI enthusiast. AI just had another wild week. Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K2 thinking, a next-gen reasoning model built for multi-hour autonomous thinking, while MagicPath launched a Chrome extension that lets you clone any website element into an editable AI canvas.

Plus: The most important news and breakthroughs in AI this week.

Alibaba-backed Chinese startup Moonshot has launched Kimi K2 Thinking, its second major AI model update in just four months, as China’s AI race accelerates. The new model claims to outperform OpenAI’s ChatGPT in agentic reasoning, understanding user intent without explicit instructions.

→ Builds on the K2 model released in July by Beijing-based Moonshot, backed by Alibaba
→ Capable of autonomously selecting 200–300 tools to complete complex tasks end-to-end
→ Trained for $4.6 million, nearly matching DeepSeek’s $5.6M spend and far below OpenAI’s multi-billion-dollar budgets
→ Gains traction amid growing U.S. acknowledgment of Chinese AI models as competitive, cost-effective alternatives

🧰 Who is This Useful For:

  • Developers building multi-tool agent systems and reasoning frameworks

  • Startups seeking cost-efficient, scalable AI alternatives to GPT-based systems

  • Researchers studying agentic AI behavior and autonomous task orchestration

  • Businesses exploring Chinese AI solutions for enterprise-grade automation

Try it now → https://www.kimi.com/

Google has upgraded its Gemini Deep Research feature to analyze data across Gmail, Drive, and Chat, transforming how users conduct AI-powered investigations and generate research reports.

→ Scans Gmail, Drive files, and Chat conversations alongside web sources for comprehensive insights
→ Automatically builds multi-step research plans and synthesizes findings into structured reports
→ Supports export to Google Docs or conversion into AI-generated podcast summaries
→ Processes hundreds of pages with Gemini’s million-token context window for cohesive long-form analysis

🧰 Who is This Useful For:

  • Researchers conducting in-depth analyses across internal and external data sources

  • Knowledge workers automating competitive intelligence and project summaries

  • Teams managing large document sets, emails, and chats in collaborative research

  • Writers and analysts generating personalized, data-rich AI reports

Try it Now → https://gemini.google.com/app

Higgsfield AI has unveiled Recast, a next-generation video creation tool that lets users record themselves once and generate unlimited videos featuring any character, voice, or background. Recast combines advanced face and character swapping, instant voice cloning, and dynamic scene generation to deliver professional-grade video output in minutes.

→ Enables full-body character swaps that transfer identity, emotion, and realism across any scene
→ Integrates voice cloning and multilingual dubbing with tone and gender preservation
→ Offers 30+ preset characters and themed studio backgrounds, including customizable green screen modes
→ Supports “Recast a Movie” mode to integrate users directly into existing film scenes

🧰 Who is This Useful For:

  • Content creators producing character-driven or multilingual videos

  • Agencies and marketers localizing campaigns with customized digital personas

  • Filmmakers and studios experimenting with digital doubles and AI-generated reshoots

  • Educators and streamers creating scalable, professional video content

Freepik has introduced Freepik Spaces, a collaborative AI platform within its Creative Suite that brings end-to-end visual creation, automation, and teamwork into one shared workspace. Built with a node-based design interface, Spaces enables creatives to go from concept to campaign seamlessly in real time.

→ Visual, node-based interface to design, automate, and manage AI workflows for ads, videos, and campaigns
→ Real-time collaboration with teammates and clients directly on the canvas
→ Automates repetitive tasks with triggers, templates, and APIs for scalable content production
→ Supports reuse of workflows to maintain brand consistency and accelerate new projects

🧰 Who is This Useful For:

  • Creative teams designing full campaigns from concept to execution

  • Marketing and design leads managing large-scale AI workflows

  • Agencies and enterprises building repeatable, brand-consistent processes

  • Independent creators seeking collaborative, end-to-end visual creation tools

Try it Now → https://www.freepik.com/spaces

Microsoft has released its first in-house AI image generator, MAI-Image-1, now integrated into Bing Image Creator and Copilot Audio Expressions. The model will expand to the EU soon, according to Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman.

→ Specializes in photorealistic imagery, especially food, nature, lighting effects, and artistic detail
→ Delivers faster generation than larger models while maintaining high visual fidelity
→ Powers Copilot’s story mode by generating visuals for AI-created audio stories
→ Complements Microsoft’s growing MAI model family, including MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview

🧰 Who is This Useful For:

  • Creators seeking fast, high-quality visual generation inside Microsoft’s ecosystem

  • Businesses using Copilot for content and storytelling workflows

  • Developers exploring Microsoft’s internal model suite for performance optimization

AI design startup MagicPath just dropped a Chrome extension that lets users clone any website element directly into an editable infinite canvas, and turn it into production-ready code.

→ Copy and paste interactive components straight from live websites
→ Edit, refine, or redesign them with AI — no coding required
→ Everything you build is fully functional and responsive
→ Share entire projects or individual artboards with your team
→ Generate design variants instantly to explore creative directionsn (U.S. only at launch)

🧰 Who is This Useful For:

  • Designers prototyping UI/UX ideas with real, interactive assets

  • Developers seeking production-ready front-end components without coding

    from scratch

  • Teams refining digital products collaboratively on a live, editable canvas

  • Founders and creators looking to iterate faster from concept to deployment

Lightricks, the company behind Facetune and LTX Studio, has launched LTX-2, the first complete open-source AI video foundation model capable of generating synchronized 4K video and audio up to 20 seconds long.

→ Combines 4K fidelity, 50 fps motion, and synchronized audio in a single production-ready model
→ Runs efficiently on consumer-grade GPUs, cutting compute costs by up to 50%
→ Includes multi-keyframe conditioning, 3D camera logic, and cinematic precision controls
→ Core components, datasets, and inference tools now available on GitHub (model weights coming soon)
→ API access rolling out via the LTX-2 website with integrations on Fal, Replicate, and ComfyUI

🧰 Who is This Useful For:

  • Video creators producing high-quality AI-generated content with synchronized sound

  • Developers building or customizing open-source AI video systems

  • Studios and content teams streamlining production on consumer hardware

  • Researchers exploring next-generation audio-visual diffusion models

Thanks for making it to the end! I put my heart into every email I send, I hope you are enjoying it. Let me know your thoughts so I can make the next one even better! See you tomorrow.

- Dr. Alvaro Cintas