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Happy New Year, Reader 🎆

It's been quite the year, hasn't it?

Of course, personally and professionally, but certainly not in the last place regarding AI!

The pace of change in just one year is (for lack of a better word) CRAZY.

• ChatGPT now has voice, vision (including screensharing!), and a new reasoning model beating most PhDs. (PRO members, see my breakdown of it here.)
• Google created an agent that can do research autonomously and come back with an entire research report. It also wowed us with NotebookLM. (Watch Antony Slumbers' Masterclass on it here.)
• We now have AI Assistants do our coding (Cursor), writing (Grammarly), email (Copilot, Gemini), calendar management (Reclaim), meetings (Otter), video creation (Runway), social media content (Socialsonic), and ... what not?

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The AI Executive Brief

If you're still scrolling in the last few hours before the new year, these stories won't disappoint:

From Microsoft to Nvidia, the AI agents are coming in 2025

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Also, the topic of an upcoming live event I'm organizing (more info soon), agentic AI, is all the rage.

But as Allie Miller recently said, most people who think they're using agents are tapping into AI workflows. The lines are blurry, for sure.

This article hints at what truly agentic work could be offloaded to AI in 2025, including Google's Project Mariner, highlighted above.

>> Read "From Microsoft to Nvidia, the AI agents are coming in 2025."​

Quick Hits

• Meta AI is something you may have seen pop up on Facebook, Instagram, or Whatsapp. Here's what it is and what you should know about it.
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• Models, models, models. Time has a great report about them: "AI Models Are Getting Smarter. New Tests Are Racing to Catch Up​."
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• Faster but Unhappy. We've frequently discussed the impact of AI on the labor market. One researcher now concludes that it will increase productivity, but decrease happiness. See also my conversation with Debbie Lovich on AI and joy in the workplace.
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• 10 things to never say to AI bots. You know someone is listening on the other end, right? USA Today listed ten things never to share with AI. Too obvious or a good reminder?
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• You get a Copilot. And you get a Copilot. Everyone gets a Copilot. Whether you want it or not, you'll likely be using Microsoft Copilot, reports the WSJ. Smart move – or should Microsoft be ready for some serious backlash?

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See you next week,

​Daan van Rossum​ Host, Lead with AI