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Hola AI aficionados, it’s yet another ThursdAI, and yet another week FULL of AI news, spanning Open Source LLMs, Multimodal video and audio creation and more!

Shiptember as they call it does seem to deliver, and it was hard even for me to follow up on all the news, not to mention we had like 3-4 breaking news during the show today!

This week was yet another Qwen-mas, with Alibaba absolutely dominating across open source, but also NVIDIA promising to invest up to $100 Billion into OpenAI.

So let’s dive right in! As a reminder, all the show notes are posted at the end of the article for your convenience.

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Table of Contents

* Open Source AI

* Qwen3-VL Announcement (Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking):

* Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B: end-to-end SOTA omni-modal AI unifying text, image, audio, and video

* DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus: a surgical bugfix that matters for agents

* Evals & Benchmarks: agents, deception, and code at scale

* Big Companies, Bigger Bets!

* OpenAI: ChatGPT Pulse: Proactive AI news cards for your day

* XAI Grok 4 fast - 2M context, 40% fewer thinking tokens, shockingly cheap

* Alibaba Qwen-Max and plans for scaling

* This Week’s Buzz: W&B Fully Connected is coming to London and Tokyo & Another hackathon in SF

* Vision & Video: Wan 2.2 Animate, Kling 2.5, and Wan 4.5 preview

* Moondream-3 Preview - Interview with co-founders Via & Jay

* Wan open sourced Wan 2.2 Animate (aka “Wan Animate”): motion transfer and lip sync

* Kling 2.5 Turbo: cinematic motion, cheaper and with audio

* Wan 4.5 preview: native multimodality, 1080p 10s, and lip-synced speech

* Voice & Audio

* ThursdAI - Sep 25, 2025 - TL;DR & Show notes

Open Source AI

This was a Qwen-and-friends week. I joked on stream that I should just count how many times “Alibaba” appears in our show notes. It’s a lot.

Qwen3-VL Announcement (Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking): (X,