AI News - April 08, 2025

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💌 Welcome to Our AI Weekly Roundup! 💌

We're excited to bring you this week's roundup of the most fascinating AI news, updates, and breakthroughs! Grab a cup of your favorite beverage, sit back, and explore the incredible world of AI with us.

🔥 Top AI Stories of the Week

1. A new report from Stanford University shows that the lead in AI by the United States is shrinking. [Link]

2. Kawasaki Corporation creates a hydrogen powered rideable robotic horse. [Link]

3. Meta releases its new LLama 4 Frontier model. [Link]

4. AI Therapists are proliferating in the U.S. [Link]

5. OpenAI closes another forty billion USD funding round. [Link]

6. Amazon releases its new Nova AI model. [Link]

7. Scientists have developed two new AI tools to help decode proteins. [Link]

8. Midjourney releases their first new model in a year, Version 7. [Link]

9. Runway says that its latest text to video model can generate consistent scenes and people across multiple shots. [Link]

10. Microsoft’s new AI generated Quake 2 game demo draws mixed reactions. [Link]

11. OpenAI delays its launch of GPT-5, citing difficulties. [Link]