Runway Gen 4.5, DeepSeek, Mistral 3 and your next AI upgrade

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Video models are finally catching up to your brief, open models are starting to think like paid giants, and a full ladder of Mistral sizes lets you choose what runs where, while this week also shows you how to turn GPT-5.1 into an image studio, test time saving tools for content and outreach, and apply concrete workflows for video, document Q&A, and custom chats. Here’s what you have to look forward to.

In This Issue:

• 💥 Big News: See how Runway tightens video control, DeepSeek pushes open reasoning, and Mistral lets you match model size to each workflow

• ✨Weekly Spotlight: Turn rough ideas into GPT-5.1 powered images for decks, socials, and product pages you are not embarrassed to ship

• 🔥Trending Tools: Test faster ways to spin up videos, slides, social posts, cold outreach, and human sounding copy without adding new hires

• 🛠️ Deep Dives: Learn how text to video, document Q&A, and character chats can fit into real projects, not just fun experiments

💥 Big News

Runway Gen-4.5 Makes Your Prompts Look Premium

If your AI footage still looks floaty or chaotic, Runway Gen-4.5 targets that pain with sharper frames, steadier motion, & prompts that actually stick to your brief across a full clip, while new physics tweaks keep liquids, props, & characters moving with believable weight, ranked first on independent video leaderboards & tuned on NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell for fast rollouts across busy, multi element scenes.

Sharper video control

• Great for agencies producing b-roll & ads

• Helps solo creators keep looks consistent

• Cuts time fixing weird motion in post

DeepSeek V3.2 Turns Open Models Into Power Tools

Wish your agents could stay sharp across huge docs without crushing your GPU bill? DeepSeek V3.2 & V3.2-Speciale push open reasoning into GPT-5 & Gemini 3 Pro territory, pairing long-context 128k windows with math & coding chops that scored gold in major competitions, while new tool use lets models think mid-call, with V3.2 ready for daily work & Speciale available through a temporary research API.

Open reasoning power

• Ideal for teams building tool-heavy agents

• Lets you try frontier-style reasoning without lock-in

• Great for research labs & indie devs

Mistral 3 Lets You Pick Your Perfect Fit

You do not want one model trying to carry every workflow. Mistral 3 ships a whole menu instead, from a flagship Mistral Large 3 down to nine lightweight Ministral models built for single GPUs, all multilingual & multimodal, with base, instruct, & reasoning flavors plus Apache 2.0 licensing so you can tune, self host, or swap 3B, 8B, & 14B sizes without rewriting your stack.

Pick-your-size models

• Gives you edge-ready options, not just giants

• Nice for teams mixing laptops & on-prem

• Apache 2.0 license keeps legal headaches low

💫 Check out all 173 AI products, features, & news Big Tech released this week.

✨ Weekly Spotlight

Create Images in GPT-5.1 With Confidence

In Skill Leap’s AI-Powered Image Creation With ChatGPT you learn updated GPT-5.1 workflows for turning messy ideas into on-brand images for decks, socials & product pages without hiring a designer. You will experiment with prompt formulas, image controls & custom GPTs so your logos, product shots & teaching visuals feel intentional instead of last minute.

• Write prompt formulas that hit your visual goals (e.g., logos, thumbnails, slide backgrounds, hero images)

• Transform uploads with new styles, lighting & framing (perfect for product shots & podcast covers)

• Build GPTs that auto-generate prompts you reuse (keep branding consistent across channels & campaigns)

• Use GPT-5.1 tools for smarter image tweaks (alt text, SEO blurbs & quick variants)

🔥 Hot Tools

9 Top & Trending AI Tool Releases This Week

• remio: Your personal ChatGPT with all your context**

• AI Video Course Generator by Coursebox: Generate multilingual training videos with customizable avatars**

• Freebeat: Turn songs and photos into beat-synced viral videos**

• Alai: Turn rough notes into polished, investor-ready slide decks**

• BigIdeasDB: Discover, validate, and blueprint products from real problems**

• Vidu AI: Generate high-quality animated videos from text or images**

• PostSam: Auto-write, schedule, and publish branded social posts**

• ColdConvert: Draft personalized cold emails that actually get replies**

• Humanize AI Pro: Turn AI-generated text into natural human writing**

**Featured

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🛠️ Deep Dives

1. Genmo: Text-to-Video Made Simple

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Text-based video creation turns written ideas into animated video scenes without needing cameras or actors

• Image-to-video flexibility animates static images or storyboards to bring visuals to life

• Open-source model (Mochi 1) gives you full control to run, customize or self-host the video generation model

• Low technical barrier for prototypes lets developers and creators test concepts quickly without heavy editing tools

Pricing

• Free: Open-source model available to run and customize with no cost

2. Humata: AI That Reads Your Files

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Smart file search & summary saves you from reading dense documents by summarizing PDFs, Word docs, and PowerPoints quickly

• Instant Q&A across documents lets you ask questions across your uploads and get instant answers with traceable citations

• Work with any file type including scanned PDFs (OCR on higher plans) so no document gets left behind

• Team collaboration & security gives role-based permissions and encryption when sharing docs inside a team

Pricing

• Free Plan: Basic access for up to 60 pages per month and limited answers

• Paid Plans (from $9.99 per month): For 500 pages, up to $49 per user per month (Team) for 5,000 pages plus advanced features and security

3. character.ai: Custom Chatbots & Conversations

Why It’s Worth Your Time

• Create or chat with custom characters built with personality, tone, and quirks you define

• Use AI for storytelling or role-play; characters can help with creative writing or simulated dialogue scenarios

• Access big user-generated library of community-made bots for inspiration or fun conversations

• Optional premium experience with faster responses and fewer delays for members who subscribe

Pricing

• Free Plan: Basic access to chat and public community content

• Paid Plan ($9.99 per month): Faster response times and premium channel access

⏭️ What’s Next

Next week, we will break down another wave of model releases and share a new how to focused on one practical workflow you can plug straight into your own setup.

Until then, try a bolder Runway prompt, point DeepSeek at a real spec or codebase, swap a smaller Mistral model into one task, and ship at least one GPT-5.1 powered image to see what genuinely changes your week.