🖼Killing the AI Look with Open-Source Photorealism

💀The Core: Black Forest Labs and Krea just dropped FLUX.1 Krea — an open-weight AI image model built to kill the “AI look” with sharper realism.

The details:👍

- Trained to avoid waxy skin, blur, and oversaturation
- Claims SOTA status vs. both open and closed models
- Fully compatible with the FLUX.1 dev ecosystem

❓Why it matters: It’s a leap in photorealism — blurring the line between real and AI-made like never before.

☺️OpenAI announces Stargate Norway, its first European AI data center
☺️Will house 100,000 Nvidia GPUs
☺️Set to run entirely on renewable energy
☺️Launch planned for late 2026

🥸 Everything else in AI today

📱 YouTube is rolling out new AI content moderation tools that will estimate a user’s age based on their viewing history and other factors, aiming to help ID and protect minors.

📱 Cohere introduced Command A Vision, a new model that achieves SOTA performance in multimodal vision tasks for enterprises

📱 OpenAI has reportedly reached $12B in annualized revenue for 2025, with around 700M weekly active users for its ChatGPT platform.

⚙️ StepFun released Step3, an open-source multimodal reasoning model that achieves high performance at low cost, outperforming Kimi K2, Qwen3, and Llama 4 Maverick.

😭 Both Runway and Luma AI are exploring robotics training and simulations with their video models as a source of revenue, according to a new report from The Information.

💵AI infrastructure platform Fal raised a new $125M funding round, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.5B.

😉 Agentic AI startup Manus launched Wide Research, a feature that leverages agent-to-agent collaboration to deploy hundreds of subagents to handle a single task.

🎥 Showrunner - Platform for creating personalized, playable TV episodes

😀 NEO - Neo AI’s new SOTA autonomous ML engineer

📸FLUX.1 Krea [dev] - BFL and Krea’s open advanced image model

🗺AlphaEarth Foundations - Google’s AI model for on-demand maps

👍 Everything else in AI today

📱 xAI rolled out its next-gen Grok 4 for free to all users worldwide for a limited time, also announcing a new ‘long press’ feature to turn images into video with Grok Imagine.

📱 OpenAI’s o3 swept the Kaggle AI chess tournament, winning every game against rivals, including DeepSeek R1, Grok-4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, to take the gold medal.

🤖 Roblox open-sourced Sentinel, a new AI model designed to filter inappropriate chat messages and protect children on the platform.

🎮Microsoft released Copilot 3D, a new AI tool that converts images into usable 3D models in a single click for integrations with games, animation, VR/AR, and more.

💵SoftBank announced the acquisition of Foxconn’s U.S. electric vehicle plant in Ohio, with plans to launch its Stargate data center at the location.

👥Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is closing its Dojo Supercomputer team to instead focus on its advanced AI chips, with the team’s VP, Pete Bannon, leaving the company.

🌸Bloomberg Apple insider Mark Gurman revealed that Apple AI researcher Yun Zhu is leaving for Meta’s MSL, the fifth departure from the foundation models team.

🔗 Trending AI Tools

🗣 MiniMax Speech 2.5 - Voice cloning AI with support for 40 languages

📱 Jules - Google’s asynchronous coding agent, now out of beta

✏️ Qwen-Image - New open-source image model with SOTA text rendering