The Journey of Life.....: 🤖 AI Tools and Technologies [18-Dec-2025]

Thursday, December 18, 2025

AI TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.2 and ChatGPT Images 1.5 - OpenAI launched GPT-5.2 with improved reasoning and ChatGPT Images 1.5 with 4x faster image generation, better instruction-following, and more precise editing capabilities. Source: TechCrunch
Anthropic Donates Model Context Protocol (MCP) to Open Source - Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI formed the Agentic Foundation to ensure open sourcing of MCP, a critical protocol for AI agent integration. Source: MediaPost
Google Launches Gemini Deep Research Agent - Google responded to OpenAI's advances with stronger Gemini Deep Research Agent capabilities and tighter integration into Google Search. Source: What Just Happened in AI

Block Goose - Autonomous AI Agent Platform - An extensible, LLM-agnostic AI agent (+441 stars trending) that can install packages, execute commands, edit files, and run tests autonomously. Represents a shift from suggestions to actual execution. Source: GitHub Trending
Claude-Mem - Context-Aware Coding Sessions - A Claude Code plugin (+779 stars) that maintains persistent context across coding sessions by automatically capturing and intelligently injecting relevant project information. Source: GitHub Trending
RAGFlow - Production-Grade RAG+Agent Fusion - An advanced retrieval-augmented generation engine (69K+ stars) that combines RAG with agent capabilities for sophisticated context layers beyond simple vector search. Source: GitHub Trending
Microsoft Generative AI for Beginners - A comprehensive 21-lesson course (+404 stars trending, 100K+ total) covering generative AI from foundations to practical applications including prompt engineering and RAG. Source: GitHub

SAM Audio - Segment Anything in Audio - Meta released SAM Audio (Dec 16, 2025), enabling general audio source separation and segmentation for multimodal AI systems. Source: AI at Meta
ChatGPT Images on Product Hunt - OpenAI's image generation on Product Hunt (190 upvotes, Dec 17) featuring GPT Image 1.5 with faster, smarter, and more precise image creation. Source: Product Hunt

500 AI Agents Projects - Curated collection (19,506 stars, +423 today) showcasing practical AI agent implementations across healthcare, finance, education, and retail with open-source implementations. Source: GitHub Trending
Videotok - AI Video Ad Creation - AI agents creating 1000+ video ads automatically (#1 on Product Hunt Dec 17). Source: Product Hunt
Bilt.me - AI Agent for Native Mobile Apps - An AI Agent that builds real native mobile applications for iOS and Android. Source: Product Hunt

CyberCut AI - AI Video Studio - Ranked #1 product for week of Dec 1-8, creating viral social media clips from longer content. Source: Product Hunt
Wan 2.6 - Multimodal AI for Creators - The next era of multimodal AI for video creation and content generation. Source: Product Hunt

StreamAlive - Interactive PPT Slides - Chat-powered polls, word clouds, and quizzes integrated directly into PowerPoint slides using AI. Source: Product Hunt
Slidev - Developer-Friendly Presentations - Markdown-based presentation tool (42,916 stars) for developers with Vue.js and TypeScript, supporting live code demos and full version control. Source: GitHub Trending

Microsoft VibeVoice - Open-Source Voice AI - Microsoft's frontier-level voice AI (17,225 stars, +966 today) bringing voice interface capabilities to open-source developers without proprietary constraints. Source: GitHub Trending
Grov - AI Memory for Teams - Shared synchronized AI memory and reasoning layer across teams (open source, developer tools, AI agents). Source: Product Hunt
CanvAi - AI Canvas Drawing - Draw, compose, and generate AI art on an infinite canvas interface. Source: Product Hunt
Kraa 1.0 - Writing App for Everything - Advanced writing application with AI assistance built-in. Source: Product Hunt