This Week's AI News Updates (Apr 24, 2025) 🚀

✅ OpenAI unveils GPT-4.1 API, the smarter model

https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/

✅ GPTs Now Support Image Generation with GPT-4o

https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/1913688262612336878

✅ Seems like OpenAI now requires ID Verification to access the o3 and probably o4-mini APIs

https://x.com/wavefnx/status/1913207954351808742

✅ Developers can now start building with Gemini 2.5 Flash in the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI

https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-2-5-flash-preview/

✅ Run Gemma 3 27B on your desktop GPU

https://x.com/googleaidevs/status/1913219776656089184

✅ Google Developing Next AI Model Focused on UI/UX

https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1913572498018271554

✅ China Hosts First-Ever Humanoid Half Marathon

https://x.com/minchoi/status/1913612030050783696

✅ Chinese robotics company Unitree showcases firefighting robot

https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1911817240577716334

✅ Figma to Soon Let Users Build Apps With AI

https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/figma-to-soon-let-users-build-apps-with-ai-reports/

✅ Rivian elects Cohere’s CEO to its board in latest signal the EV maker is bullish on AI

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/rivian-elects-coheres-ceo-to-its-board-in-latest-signal-the-ev-maker-is-bullish-on-ai/