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What's Up in AI
December 15, 2025
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Welcome Back, AI Geeks!
It’s time to stay updated with What’s Up in AI.
Last week was insane.
OpenAI dropped the most wholesome combo: productivity + pure fun.
GPT-5.2 brings better reasoning, fewer mistakes, and smarter agents — while Disney is officially opening its worlds to Sora. Work gets smoother, play gets cooler.
In today’s issue:
🤯 GPT-5.2 is here
📈 Disney just licensed its entire universe to Sora
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
📰 What Else Happened in AI
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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What Happened (Dec 11, 2025):
OpenAI released GPT-5.2, positioning it as its most capable model series yet for professional knowledge work and long-running agents. The rollout focuses on improving reasoning quality, reliability, and speed — especially for tasks like spreadsheets, presentations, coding, and multi-step analysis — rather than adding flashy new features.
What You Need to Know:
GPT-5.2 ships as a family of models (Instant, Thinking, Pro), with ChatGPT’s new Auto mode dynamically switching between speed and deeper reasoning.
OpenAI introduced a new internal benchmark (GDPval) showing GPT-5.2 Thinking matching or beating human professionals on a majority of evaluated real-world tasks.
Coding and “agentic work” see major gains, with better performance on SWE-Bench benchmarks and stronger end-to-end execution (debugging, refactoring, shipping).
Reliability is a key theme: OpenAI reports meaningfully fewer hallucinations and incorrect responses compared to GPT-5.1.
GPT-5.2 is rolling out across ChatGPT tiers and the API, with users able to manually choose models based on task complexity.
Why It Matters:
GPT-5.2 signals OpenAI’s pivot back to fundamentals. Instead of adding surface-level features, the company is betting that trust, consistency, and real productivity gains will define the next phase of the AI race — especially as competition from Gemini and Claude intensifies.
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What Happened (Dec 11, 2025):
OpenAI announced a three-year licensing agreement with Disney, making it the first major studio to officially license its IP for Sora, OpenAI’s AI video model. The deal allows users to generate short videos featuring characters from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars — under strict usage and safety guidelines.
What You Need to Know:
Sora will support generation using 200+ licensed characters, along with associated worlds, props, and visual elements.
The agreement also extends to ChatGPT Images, enabling licensed image generation using Disney IP.
Select fan-created Sora videos may be showcased on Disney+, turning AI-generated clips into a new form of platform content.
The deal explicitly excludes real actor likenesses and voices, with clear guardrails around safety and misuse.
Disney is also becoming a major OpenAI customer and investor, committing $1B and rolling OpenAI tools across its internal teams.
Why It Matters:
This marks a turning point for generative AI and entertainment. Instead of fighting AI, Disney is embracing a licensed, controlled model — potentially setting the template for how major IP holders collaborate with AI platforms at scale.
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QUICK HITS 💥
It’s time for some quick hits that you’ll love. Let’s go in…..5-4-3-2-1 👇️
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3-THINGS IN TREND
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👩🍳 Thermomix TM7 Is Basically a Robot Sous-Chef
Vorwerk’s new Thermomix TM7 isn’t fully autonomous yet, but it’s about as close as a home kitchen gets to having a robot chef. It blends, steams, bakes, proofs, weighs, and even orders groceries through Instacart — all from one touchscreen. The only catch: you’re still on prep and cleanup duty (for now).
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🧑💻 TIME names “Architects of AI” Person of the Year
TIME Magazine crowned the collective “Architects of AI” — top tech leaders behind AI’s explosive growth — as its 2025 Person of the Year, spotlighting their role in reshaping society and technology. Reuters
🖌️ Cursor Unveils Visual Editor for Designers + Devs
Cursor rolled out a new Visual Editor, letting designers tweak live app UI and have Cursor’s AI rewrite the underlying code — blending design and dev workflows. WIRED
🎬 Shopify Winter ’26 AI Features Arrive
Shopify introduced Winter ’26 updates including SimGym for shopper behavior simulations and Agentic Storefronts that tailor product discovery across AI platforms.
🌎 Runway Launches GWM-1 General World Model
Runway debuted GWM-1, its first real-time, interactive world model capable of simulating explorable 3D environments.
🧪 Google Labs Launches Disco Browser
Google Labs announced Disco, an experimental browser powered by Gemini 3 that turns your open tabs into custom web apps based on browsing context.
🎧 ElevenLabs Partners With Meta
ElevenLabs struck a new deal with Meta to bring its advanced audio and voice tech to creators across Instagram, Horizon, and other Meta platforms.
Funding 💰️
Gracia AI lands $1.7M for AI-powered ultra-photorealistic volumetric videos for VR and AR
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