The day in AI
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Launches and products
26 Aug 2025Google DeepMindNano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) Gemini 2.5 Flash Image ("nano-banana") blends several images, keeps characters consistent and edits by natural-language instruction; $0.039 per image via API.26 Aug 2025MicrosoftVibeVoice (1.5B) Open text-to-speech model for long multi-speaker conversations of up to 90 minutes and 4 speakers, in English and Chinese, MIT licence.26 Aug 2025Alibaba (Qwen)Wan2.2-S2V-14B Open 14B audio-driven cinematic video generation model, released with a technical report and inference code.
People and teams
Ethan KnightMeta Superintelligence Labs → OpenAI. Left Meta's core TBD Lab for OpenAI after under a month; Meta confirmed to The Verge he left the core team.
Chaya NayakMeta → OpenAI. Leaving after nearly a decade at Meta to work on special initiatives at OpenAI, per two sources cited by Wired.
Avi VermaMeta Superintelligence Labs → OpenAI. Left MSL for OpenAI after under a month, per Wired; Meta said people sometimes decide to stay in their current job during intense recruiting.