Innovation Profs - 12/2/2025

Latest Gen AI News

DeepSeek just dropped two insanely powerful AI models that rival GPT-5 and they're totally free

Back in January, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its language model R1, which, due to both the reported low cost of training the model and the fact that it surpassed ChatGPT as the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store, resulted in AI chipmaker Nvidia losing 18% of its value. Now, DeepSeek is looking to end 2025 with another bang, releasing two new models, DeepSeek-V3.2 and DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, with the former model being available to all users for free and the latter model only available to developers via API access.

Significantly, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale has outperformed both GPT-5-high and Gemini-3.0-Pro, two of the top LLMs available, on a number of benchmarks. “DeepSeek has once again demonstrated that it can produce frontier AI systems despite U.S. export controls that restrict China's access to advanced Nvidia chips — and it has done so while making its models freely available under an open-source MIT license.”

New video models released

We had two notable new video models drop this week. First, Runway released Gen 4.5, which now holds the No. 1 spot on the Video Arena leaderboard, surpassing Google and OpenAI. Kling kicked off what it is calling Omni Launch Week with the release of Kling O1, a new model that can take inputs of text, audio and videos and turn them into whatever video you want. These come on the heels of OpenAI’s Suno 2 and Google’s Veo 3 models releasing in recent months.

OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits

It’s not a secret that a number of large language models have been trained on datasets that include pirated books (c.f. Anthropic’s recent $1.5 billion settlement). However, what is a secret is why OpenAI deleted two databases of pirated books back in 2022. But perhaps not for long, as a judge has ruled that OpenAI must hand over internal communications about the deletion of these datasets to authors that are suing the company. If these communications prove "willful infringement,” that might undermine OpenAI’s defense in the lawsuit, as the company claims that they never used the datasets for training purposes.

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Tool of the week: CyberCut AI video editor

CyberCut is an AI-powered video-editing studio designed to make it easy for creators to produce social-media ready videos. The free tool describes itself as a toolkit that reduces friction by letting you go from raw material to “viral clips” quickly — using AI to automate editing tasks that normally require time and technical skill. The tool is currently free, and has three options:

• Marketing Video combines your videos and photos into a social media ready video.

• Smart Clip finds the viral moments in your longer videos.

• AI Caption lets you edit videos through the transcript and add captions.

AI-generated image of the week

We tested Nano Banana to make some Instagram-grid style photos of a product. First, we made a product image using Ideogram (for a fun canned beverage called Dr. Profs), then we put it into Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro using the prompt below. Looks like one image snuck in there without a product.

Prompt: Create a 9-image Instagram feed for this product with varied angles, people, and environments

What we found

Kling AI released its new video model Kling O1 that some are calling Nano Banana for video. Watch the embedded video below to see what it can do.