🚀 Latest AI updates made simple #5
Welcome back! This edition highlights model advancements, new tools, and features that help you build smarter and scale efficiently. 📈
🤖 OpenAI
What's new: OpenAI's reasoning models achieved a perfect 12/12 score at the 2025 ICPC(International Collegiate Programming Contest) World Finals, solving all problems under the same conditions as human teams.
This included using GPT-5 for most problems and an experimental model for the toughest one.
What is important is this shows AI can now outperform top students in programming contests. This means that you have access to an advanced and arguably the best coding assistance at your fingertips!
👁️ Mistral AI
What's new: Mistral AI released Magistral Small 1.2 and Medium 1.2, adding vision capabilities, 15 percent better math/coding performance, improved tool use, and natural responses.
Mistral AI can now look at pictures and read text at the same time (vision encoder), all in one go. Unlike other AIs that need extra tools to handle images, this one does it naturally, making apps faster to build and better at explaining what’s in a picture.
🏆 ElevenLabs
What's new: ElevenLabs opened submissions for Chroma Awards, the largest AI film, music, and gaming competition with over $175,000 in prizes.
If you’re a creative entrepreneur, don’t shy away from this opportunity.
Many say that showing up is what matters. False. If you’re gonna show up, you might as well give it your best! You cannot regret an opportunity taken, but you certainly can regret the one not taken.
You can register here: https://chromaawards.com/
Submissions for the Chroma Awards are now open.
The Chroma Awards is the largest AI film, music and gaming competition with over $175,000 in cash prizes.
Presented By @elevenlabsio, @googlecloud, @freepik, @FAL, @dreamina_ai, and @capcutapp
— #ElevenLabs (#@elevenlabsio)
4:00 PM • Sep 19, 2025
📺 YouTube
What's new: YouTube just added new AI tools that help you work faster.
These tools can write captions for your videos, suggest new topics, edit clips into short videos, and speed up the editing process. The goal is to save creators time and make it easier to produce polished content without needing fancy skills or extra apps.
For you this means you can create content quicker and reach more people without getting stuck in the editing process. 🖥️
ICYMI: new tools to help supercharge your creativity, grow your business, and connect with your audience ✨ here's all you need to know in one handy #MadeOnYouTube recap
— #YouTube Creators (#@YouTubeCreators)
10:01 PM • Sep 18, 2025
🛠️ Figma
What’s new: Figma Sites is now available to everyone on Starter and Education plans! This lets you design and publish full websites directly from Figma, without any coding or extra tools.
It makes creating websites faster, simpler, and more accessible, opening up new opportunities for experimentation and portfolio building. Make sure to check it out.
Time to update your portfolios, Figma Sites is now available to everyone on a Starter or Education plan
— #Figma (#@figma)
9:28 PM • Sep 18, 2025
Looking Ahead
The future is about AI helping you get more done in less time. Models like OpenAI’s reasoning AI and Mistral’s vision tools will make coding, analyzing, and building apps faster and easier.
At the same time, tools like YouTube’s AI features and Figma Sites will let you produce polished content and websites in the blink of an eye.
What’s important is to start experimenting now. The startups and creators who try these tools early will save time, move faster, and be ready for the next wave of AI!
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