As artificial intelligence systems evolve to mirror human learning patterns - from basic perception to complex problem-solving - researchers are making breakthrough advances in how machines understand and create visual content. These developments, spanning from improved video comprehension to more sophisticated image generation, highlight the growing capability of AI to not just process information, but to understand and create content in ways that increasingly resemble human cognitive processes. Links to all the papers we discussed: SRMT: Shared Memory for Multi-agent Lifelong Pathfinding, Sigma: Differential Rescaling of Query, Key and Value for Efficient Language Models, Improving Video Generation with Human Feedback, Temporal Preference Optimization for Long-Form Video Understanding, Can We Generate Images with CoT? Let's Verify and Reinforce Image Generation Step by Step, Video-MMMU: Evaluating Knowledge Acquisition from Multi-Discipline Professional Videos