AI news you can't miss this week

Microsoft adds Cross-Tab AI awarness, OpenAI launches Study Mode, Krea achieves Photorealism, Alibaba new model tops Benchmarks & Runway enables Video Editing.

Best AI tools of this week:

1️⃣Microsoft's Edge browser gains cross-tab AI awareness through experimental Copilot Mode.


2️⃣OpenAI's ChatGPT introduces guided learning approach replacing instant answer delivery.


3️⃣ Krea's FLUX.1 breakthrough eliminates AI visual artifacts achieving photorealistic authenticity.

  • Alibaba's Qwen3 model achieves benchmark leadership with enterprise-friendly licensing.

  • Runway's Aleph model enables existing video manipulation beyond generation-only capabilities.

WEEKLY AI RECAP

28 July - 2 August 2025

🌐 Microsoft Edge introduces Copilot Mode 🌐
AI assistant gains visibility across browser tabs

Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Mode, a cutting-edge AI feature for Edge that provides AI with comprehensive tab awareness.** The new mode empowers AI** to deliver smart recommendations and execute sophisticated workflows like** cross-tab product comparisons**, assisting with** travel accommodation searches**, and coordinating dining bookings through voice interaction.

This innovation features a unified interface with one central input field that merges** conversational AI, search functionality, and web browsing**. In upcoming releases, users can authorize Copilot to access** browser history and login credentials** for autonomous service bookings and transactions.

Currently free during beta period across all Copilot regions on Windows and Mac platforms, this entirely voluntary feature showcases Microsoft's advancement in AI-enhanced web browsing, maintaining user privacy and data protection via transparent indicators and granular permissions.

📚 ChatGPT introduces Study Mode for learners 📚
Guided discovery replaces direct answers

OpenAI has unveiled “Study Mode” for ChatGPT, evolving it from an instant-response tool into an “engaging educational companion”. Rather than delivering immediate answers, the feature shepherds students through challenges using strategic clues, contemplative exercises, and personalized assessments grounded in pedagogical research.

The system deconstructs intricate concepts into manageable components and dynamically responds to individual proficiency levels, employing inquiry-based methods to foster comprehensive learning. Now accessible to Free, Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers, Study Mode marks a fundamental transformation positioning AI as a learning facilitator instead of an academic bypass.

🎨 FLUX.1 Krea eliminates the telltale "AI look" from generated images 🎨
Longer reasoning seems to lead to worse performance

Krea's FLUX.1 model advancement eradicates recognizable AI generation signatures that formerly rendered synthetic content readily detectable. This innovation delivers lifelike outputs virtually identical to conventional photography, resolving a fundamental challenge in AI visual creation.

Sophisticated learning methodologies eliminate typical AI indicators including artificial illumination, surface anomalies, and structural irregularities. Initial evaluations demonstrate substantial enhancement levels spanning portraiture, scenery, and commercial imaging. This progress introduces fresh concerns regarding AI media verification and authenticity validation systems.

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🧠 Alibaba's Qwen3 model outperforms OpenAI and Gemini 🧠 

Alibaba's Qwen Team has launched Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507, an innovative open-source reasoning model that dominates or matches top performers across multiple key benchmarks, surpassing even premium proprietary solutions from OpenAI and Google.

Published under Apache 2.0 licensing, the model provides organizations complete freedom for commercial implementation, customization, and private hosting without limitations. Instantly available for free download via Hugging Face and ModelScope, featuring API costs of $0.70 per million input tokens and $8.40 per million output tokens.

📹 Runway unveils Aleph video model 📹

Runway has introduced Aleph, an advanced video AI system capable of editing, modifying, and creating video content. The model enables precise object adjustments, camera perspective changes, and aesthetic or illumination modifications with exceptional quality, transcending traditional text-to-video creation. Aleph's distinctive capability lies in its contextual comprehension and transformation of pre-existing video materials, moving beyond simple generation of original content from prompts.

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