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The Complete AI Business Revolution: Agents, Wages, and What's Next (2025 AI Predictions - Vol. 1)
AI super agents on the way, OpenAI’s Operator agent to release soon, Altman teases o3 mini, DeepSeek launches R1 and more!
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January 20, 2025
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Everything you know as best practices will be gone in 2025. AI agents are taking over the way we work and what work means. We dive into vol 1 of our 2025 AI predictions. Give it a listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Apple Intelligence coming to macOS mail app, Microsoft tests Windows AI search and Amazon suspends US drone deliveries. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: AI super agents on the way, OpenAI’s Operator agent to release soon, Altman teases o3 mini and DeepSeek launches R1. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.
🚀 AI In 5: Do Google’s new updates to Gemini Workspace make it actually usable? We dive in to find out. See it here
🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: Wondering what to expect with AI agents in 2025? We break down how it’ll affect your business and the AI landscape. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about NVIDIA’s new services for AI agent safety Microsoft and OpenAI approved for U.S. Gov. use, OpenAI’s GPT-4b micro model. Check it here!
The Complete AI Business Revolution: Agents, Wages, and What's Next (2025 AI Predictions - Vol. 1) 🕵
You know those common good habits and best practices that have worked since the dawn of the digital age?
Kiss all that goodbye in 2025 y’all.
Your regularly scheduled reality is evolving. AI Agents aren't just changing HOW we work - they're changing who we ARE and what work even means.
I’ve spent thousands of hours talking about Generative AI, interviewing hundreds of the world’s AI leaders at big companies like Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, OpenAI, IBM and others.
This week — I’m sharing what’s REALLY happening in our first-ever Podcast Series: 2025 AI Predictions: The Roadmap Ahead.
We kick off Monday with Vol 1 — Agents.
Join the conversation and ask Jordan questions on AI here.
Also on the pod today:
• AI Agents in 2025 🤖
• AI and Businesses in 2025 🏢
• Universal Basic Income and AI 💰
It’ll be worth your 30 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Quick Mock turns any LinkedIn job listing into a mock interview, Unideck creates personalized dashboards and portals and Brand API helps build features that use customer brand data automatically.
Apple – Apple Intelligence features are coming to the macOS mail app.
Microsoft – Microsoft has opened testing for Windows AI search.
Amazon - Amazon is suspending US drone deliveries following a crash at its testing facility.
Perplexity – Perplexity has acquired Read.cv, a social media platform.
AI in Government - Top AI developers are collaborating with the Pentagon to improve military efficiency through generative AI for threat assessment and planning
AI in Society - Abu Dhabi’s $330-billion sovereign wealth fund says no one appreciates the level of disruption that AI is about to unleash.
AI Tech – Friends has delayed shipment of its AI companion pendant.
AI in Media – The Brutalist director has responded to backlash of AI being used to edit the actors’ voices.
1. OpenAI's Operator AI Agent Tool Reportedly Almost Here 👀
OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of launching its long-anticipated Operator tool, capable of autonomously executing tasks like coding and booking travel, with a release expected this January, according to software engineer Tibor Blaho. Leaked information suggests that while Operator shows promise, scoring 38.1% on a benchmark designed to mimic real computer use, it still lags significantly behind human performance, particularly in complex tasks.
As tech giants race to develop AI agents, concerns about safety and reliability loom large, especially given Operator’s mixed results in handling tasks.
2. OpenAI o3 Mini Launching Soon 🤩
Sam Altman recently announced that the highly anticipated o3-mini will begin shipping in just a couple of weeks, bringing fresh excitement to the AI landscape. He also touted the capabilities of the new "reasoning" model, describing it as "very good," which could significantly enhance decision-making processes for businesses and individuals alike. This timely development comes as various tech giants are racing to integrate advanced AI solutions into their offerings.
3. FTC Raises Red Flags on Big Tech AI Partnerships 🚩
In a recent report, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) flagged potential antitrust issues tied to partnerships between major tech firms and AI developers, notably Microsoft’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Google’s collaboration with Anthropic.
The FTC warns that these alliances may create market lock-in, restrict access to vital AI resources for startups, and expose sensitive data, potentially skewing competition. Microsoft, however, defends its partnership as a catalyst for innovation and investment in the AI sector.
4. DeepSeek Launches R1: A New Contender in AI Reasoning 🔐
DeepSeek has just unveiled its open-source reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1, claiming it rivals OpenAI's o1 on key benchmarks, including AIME and MATH-500. With a staggering 671 billion parameters, R1 aims to provide more reliable solutions in physics and math, albeit with the trade-off of longer processing times. However, this Chinese model faces censorship challenges, avoiding sensitive topics to comply with local regulations.
5. OpenAI's Funding Revelation Sparks Controversy in AI Benchmarking 🤔
Epoch AI's recent disclosure that it received funding from OpenAI for its FrontierMath benchmark has stirred up a storm of allegations regarding transparency and integrity within the AI community. Contributors to the benchmark were reportedly unaware of OpenAI's involvement until the announcement was made, leading to concerns about the objectivity of the assessment tools used to gauge AI capabilities. Epoch AI's leadership acknowledged the oversight, emphasizing a need for better communication, while some contributors expressed doubts about their participation had they known about OpenAI's exclusive access.
6. AI Super-Agents on the Horizon 🤯
In a buzzworthy announcement, OpenAI’s Sam Altman is set to brief U.S. officials on January 30 about a potential breakthrough in generative AI that could revolutionize how complex tasks are handled, potentially replacing mid-level engineering jobs. This development aligns with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg's prediction that AI will soon be able to perform tasks traditionally reserved for human workers.
With these advanced AI tools, companies could see dramatic shifts in productivity and efficiency, but concerns about reliability and trust remain critical hurdles.
Gemini Workspace Updates: What's New & What Still Needs Work
When we first reviewed Gemini inside Google Workspace, we weren’t impressed.
But Google has been rolling out a lot of updates to its Gemini integration into Google Workspace.
So we decided to take a look at what’s new and see if the updates actually make Gemini Workspace usable.
Check out today's AI in 5.
1 – Agents Orchestrators (AOs) become the New Hot Job 🔥
What that means:
One human managing dozens (eventually thousands) of AI agents, like an air-traffic controller for AI
Early pilots showed 7 hours saved per week PER knowledge worker using multiple agents
75% of companies are planning to adopt AI agent tech in the next 5 years
Why it'll happen:
Companies are flipping from "many humans, one AI" to "one human, many AIs"
Traditional prompt engineering is dying - orchestration is the new frontier
The "rogue AI user" to "enterprise adoption" pipeline is about to explode
Wondering why AI agents are the future of work? We broke down how AI agents can bridge the gap of enterprise work here.
2 – Public Companies Start Hiring… AI Agents 🤖
What that means:
Job postings explicitly stating "Humans Need Not Apply"
20-25% cost reduction predicted for companies using agentic roles
New marketplace emerging for hiring/deploying AI agents (think a two-sided marketplace like Upwork, but for agentic AIs)
Why it'll happen:
The other 35% of companies NOT using GenAI will be forced to adapt or die
Companies will do it for the stock bump (just like they did with dropping “AI” umpteen times in their earnings calls)
Hybrid workforce 2.0: humans + AI agents is the new normal
3 – The Great Reasoning Data Gold Rush 📊
What that means:
Companies scrambling to collect decision-making process data
Emergence of specialized "reasoning wrappers" (beyond basic GPT APIs)
Multi-agentic reasoners becoming the new industry buzzword
Why it'll happen:
Current reasoners (like O1) can't be tuned to think like specific companies... yet. Bookmark this one now.
Everyone who got rich from structured data is about to do it again with unstructured (decision-making) data
The market for reasoning tech is gonna make the GPT wrapper gold rush look tiny. Think how ChatGPT made blog post writing cheap. Reasoning Wrappers will make major global consulting powers sweat in their sleep.
A while back we talked about the importance of data for AI and how it could ultimately lead to an AI bottleneck.
4 – The Professional Services Pricing Crisis 💸
What that means:
AI-native startups offering professional services at 5-10% of traditional costs
Big firms dramatically cutting new hire numbers (think 100 down to 10)
Emergence of $20/month AI lawyer subscriptions. (And other normally high-cost professional services becoming weirdly very affordable.)
Why it'll happen:
Laid-off professionals will build AI companies in their own industries and compete on cost. Think how it used to cost like $700 to make a call overseas and now it’s obviously free 99.
Early AI adopters are already crushing the middle-market players
The economy literally can't survive without cheaper professional services. Unless there’s……
We sat down and discussed AI’s workforce impact in a previous episode.
5 – UBI Hits the Dinner Table Conversation (But it won’t happen) 🍽
What that means:
45% of U.S. adults already favor $1k/month UBI proposal
Tech CEOs openly discussing UBI-like "buffers"
AGI concerns pushing UBI from fringe to mainstream
Why it'll happen:
Universal Basic Income definitely won’t happen in 2025, but the emergence of highly capable autonomous AI agents working in swarms will force UBI as a mainstream lifeline as job prospects may start to look not good.
Companies pocketing AI savings instead of passing them to workers. No one talks about corporate greed when we talk AI, but that’s always the driving factor.
We're tiptoeing between AGI and ASI faster than anyone expected, which means the UBI conversation becomes that much more important.
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