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ChatGPT can now turn your photos into GIFs. OpenAI’s new Images 2.6 brings animated loops, 50% faster image generation, and saved image references to keep designs consistent across generations. You can now animate your pets or favorite memes. Let’s unpack…

Today’s Summary:

• 🎞️ ChatGPT Images 2.6 adds GIFs

• 🌙 Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 rivals Claude

• 🌍 Google Genie 4 creates interactive worlds

• 💎 Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon

• 💸 OpenAI halves GPT-6.1 Terra prices

• 🔒 ChatGPT adds private Locked Chats

• 🛠️ 2 new tools

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ChatGPT Images 2.6 adds GIFs and 50% faster generation

The Summary: OpenAI has launched Images 2.6, bringing animated GIFs, 50% faster image generation, and more precise editing to ChatGPT and Codex. Users can now animate photos, edit GIF frames, and reuse saved reference images to keep characters and designs consistent.

Key details:

• ChatGPT now lets users save reference images of people, pets, and characters for reuse in future creations

• Each GIF is a 6-frame loop. ChatGPT asks for a 3x2 grid of identical panels, with the sixth frame built to flow back into the first

• The API adds SVG exports, image markup, and controls for complex scenes

Why it matters: Images 2.6 makes ChatGPT more useful for creative work. Saved references and more stable edits make it easier to keep using the same character, product, or design over time. You can also create GIFs from photos of your pets or favorite memes. Developers get faster image models for apps, but prices have also increased because each image now uses more tokens.

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MOONSHOT AI

Moonshot releases a 2.8T AI model that rivals Claude

The Summary: Moonshot AI has just released the full weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter AI model with a 1-million-token context window. Built for coding, 3D design, and financial research, it comes close to top closed models like Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra on several tests.

Key details:

• Scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 vs 66.4% for Claude Opus 5.5 and 58.2% for GPT-6

• Moonshot cut cyber data from training to avoid misuse in exploit tasks

• Uses 104 billion active parameters per token

• Available on Kimi.ai, Kimi Code, and the API. The full model weights have been released on Hugging Face

Why it matters: Kimi K3.1 Pro coming within 0.7 points of Claude Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 is an incredible feat for an open-weight model. But at 1.56 TB, it’s far too large for most people to run at home. Running it requires costly servers, so most users will access it through third-party hosts. Firms with enough computing power can deploy it on their own private servers.

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Genie 4 adds sound and speech to live simulated worlds

The Summary: Google DeepMind announced Genie 4, an AI model that creates realistic 3D worlds you can explore and change in real time. Users can walk through scenes, add objects, change the weather, and talk to AI characters. Unlike a fixed video, the world reacts as you move, with sound, speech, and physics generated on the fly.

Key details:

• Can keep a world coherent for 2 minutes at roughly 22–25 FPS

• You can change a world by adding a person, changing the weather, or moving the camera with a text prompt

• Generates speech and sound as the scene runs. Characters can react to events and talk back, while the model creates matching sounds such as wind, footsteps, or crashing waves

• Currently a research preview for testers. Google AI Ultra subscribers will get it next through Project Genie, along with early partners in the API

Why it matters: Genie 4 gives robots and AI agents a practice room. Robotics teams can rehearse a task before building the hardware, and filmmakers and game developers can build draft scenes from text prompts. End users will still have to wait, since DeepMind has yet to announce a price or release date.

QUICK NEWS

Quick news

• ⁠Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon with limited access

• ⁠OpenAI cuts fast GPT-6.1 Terra API prices by 50%

• ⁠ChatGPT adds Locked Chats to protect private conversations

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