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Your Complete AI Toolkit: Tools, Rules, and Global Changes (2025 AI Predictions - Vol. 4)

OpenAI's Operator unveiled, Hugging Face announces compact models, Microsoft CEO’s thoughts on Stargate Project and more!

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Everyday AI
January 23, 2025

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: The future of business tech in 2025 is going to look a whole lot different. From non-techies getting smarter to political powers shifting AI balance, here’s what your business needs to know. Give it a listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Perplexity Assistant launches in Play Store, Pope issues warning on AI and OpenAI and eBay collab. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI’s Operator is unveiled, Hugging Face unveils compact models and Microsoft CEO’s thoughts on Stargate Project. For that and more, read on for Byte Sized News.

🚀 AI In 5: Google Gems are customizable models inspired by Google Gemini. How do they stack up against OpenAI's custom GPTs? Find out here

🧠 Learn & Leveraging AI: We’re laying out the ultimate AI business prediction guide so you can navigate all the changes coming in 2025. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about the $500B Stargate Project, Microsoft allowing OpenAI to source its own compute, Google reportedly supplied AI to Israeli government defenses and more! Check it here!

 Your Complete AI Toolkit: Tools, Rules, and Global Changes (2025 AI Predictions - Vol. 4) ✅

After testing every major AI development and seeing what actually works (and what's just expensive snake oil pushed by know-nothings online)… lemme tell you what 2025's bringing to the table:
 
↳  Regular humans like Jan are about to become kingmakers.
↳  Not just "I-can-use-Canva" queens.
↳  We're talking "I-just-built-an-entire-software-suite-that-3X’ed-our-sales” friggin royalty.
 
We're exposing the REAL future of business tech in Vol 4 of our 2025 AI Predictions and roadmap series: Your Complete AI Toolkit.
 
Miss this one and you'll be the last company still waiting for IT while your competition clones your 2026 roadmap and goes to market in 3 days.
 
The code barrier is DEAD. Time to learn how to play in a world where everyone's a builder and the rules …. Aren’t really there.

Join the conversation and ask Jordan questions on AI here.

Also on the pod today:

• Reasoning Wrappers 🧠
• Global AI Regulation 🌎
• Virtual machines ⚙️

It’ll be worth your 29 minutes:

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – GoMarble is an AI ads analyzer, Storychat is AI-driven conversational platform in a feed format and LockedIn provides fast, accurate forecasting with your Excel Data.

Perplexity – Perplexity has launched Perplexity Assistant in the Play Store.

OpenAI – Sam Altman has announced that the free tier of ChatGPT will get access to o3-mini.

Trending in AI – The Pope warned at the Davos Summit that AI could worsen truth and human responsibility.

AI in Society – Scale AI CEO says that China has caught up to the U.S. with DeepSeek’s open source model.

Business of AI – OpenAI and eBay are collaborating to improve ecommerce with AI.

Google - Gemini now works across multiple apps at once on the Galaxy S25.

Read This – Someone bought the OGOpenAI domain and redirected it to a Chinese AI lab.

Future of Work - Tech giants are trying to convince CEOs that AI agents can staff their companies.

1. OpenAI's Operator Tool is Here 👀

OpenAI has unveiled a new AI agent named Operator, capable of navigating the web and managing tasks like a human through its innovative Computer-Using Agent (CUA) model. With impressive success rates of 58.1% on web tasks and 38.1% on full operating systems, CUA is designed to enhance productivity by autonomously completing online forms and troubleshooting within various digital environments.

As it rolls out to Pro users in the U.S., the potential for CUA to streamline workflows could significantly impact professionals seeking to optimize their efficiency and tackle complex digital challenges.

2. Hugging Face Unveils Compact AI Models for Everyday Use 🐜

Hugging Face has introduced the SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, touted as the smallest AI models capable of analyzing images, videos, and text. These lightweight models, designed to operate efficiently on devices with under 1GB of RAM, offer a cost-effective solution for developers handling large data sets.

Despite their small size, they reportedly outperform the larger Idefics 80B model in specific benchmarks, although a recent study raises concerns about smaller models' performance in complex reasoning tasks.

3. Stargate Showdown: Tech Titans Spar Over AI Funding 😬

In a surprising twist, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined Elon Musk in critiquing the newly unveiled Stargate initiative, a $600 billion AI infrastructure project backed by President Trump. Nadella emphasized Microsoft's commitment to real-world applications of AI, while Musk dismissed Stargate's financial claims as “fake,” igniting a public spat that highlights the competitive tensions in the AI space.

Both tech giants are feeling the heat as they jockey for position in an industry where credibility and funding are paramount.

4. Meta's AI Chief Predicts Shift from LLMs to Advanced Robotics 🦾

Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist, predicts that within the next three to five years, we could witness a significant shift in AI architectures, moving beyond the current limitations of large language models (LLMs). He emphasizes that while LLMs excel at language manipulation, they lack essential capabilities such as understanding the physical world and reasoning, which are crucial for true intelligence.

LeCun suggests that advancements in robotics will play a pivotal role in this evolution, potentially leading to AI systems that can learn and interact with their environment more effectively.

5. Salesforce CEO Calls Out Microsoft and OpenAI’s Relationship 🗣

In a revealing conversation at Davos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff chuckled over the unraveling relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI, predicting that Microsoft will soon pivot to its own AI models. With OpenAI's newfound collaboration with SoftBank and Oracle on a massive $500 billion data center project, this shift marks the end of Microsoft's exclusive cloud partnership with OpenAI.

Marc suggests that tensions have been brewing, especially after the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman by Microsoft, who has openly disagreed with OpenAI's Sam Altman, adding fuel to the fire.

Review of Google Gems, its version of custom GPTs

If you don’t know, Google released its version of a customizable model for consumers.

We review Google Gems, bite-sized bespoke versions of Google Gemini’s big model.

Are they any good?

And do they have any advantages over OpenAI’s custom GPTs? We give you the answers.

🦾How You Can Leverage:

1 – Non-Techies Become Software Wizards 🧙

What that means:

  • Anyone can build custom apps through plain conversation with AI coding tools 

  • One-shot or few-shot custom app deployment becomes the new normal for cutting edge businesses 

  • IDEs transform into AI-powered app factories, even for companies that aren’t software shops 

Why it'll happen:

  • Traditional dev jobs dropped for the first time in 2024 - and it's just the start

  • Top CS grads are already struggling to land jobs (wild, right?)

  • New AI-powered dev tools are 100x easier than traditional coding - Cursor, Windsurf, Replic and GitHub's free Copilot are just the beginning

2 – Company-Specific AI Reasoning Takes Over 🧠

What that means:

  • AI models that think exactly like your company's best decision makers

  • Long-form reasoning that matches your business logic

  • Custom AI that understands your unique thought processes

Why it'll happen:

  • Current RAG setups only solve half the problem - they need your company's reasoning patterns

  • o11 Pro's 10-minute deep thinking sessions prove the concept works for general queries. Wait until your company starts finetuning with its decision-making data 

  • Healthcare and finance are BEGGING for industry-specific reasoning models and they’ll be coming soon enough 

Wondering what this might look like in practice? We had an episode discussing whether or not AI could replace a CEO.

3 – Virtual Machines Become the New Must-Have 🧑‍💻️

What that means:

  • Windows 365 Link is just the first wave of more powerful hybrid devices 

  • Your AI needs its own dedicated computer space and that’ll move to virtual machines 

  • Every major AI tool will need its own sandbox and AI agents will need their own dedicated playgrounds (and browsers) to do their thang 

Why it'll happen:

  • Claude's computer use was clunky but revolutionary - now everyone wants in

  • Google's Project Mariner and likely other competitors will need browser control

  • Agent AI can't share your computer - it needs its own space to flex

4 – AI Gets Caught in a Political Tug-of-War 🪢️

What that means:

Why it'll happen:

  • Musk's new "Department of Government Efficiency" role gives him unprecedented power and how did this actually happen? Do we need more adults?! 

  • Zuck's "MAGA makeover" shows Big Tech's political calculation

  • The AI neutrality we loved in 2022-2024? That party's over, folks

5 – Global AI Regulation Creates a Two-Speed World 🌎️

What that means:

  • EU and friends lock down AI with strict rules

  • U.S. keeps the innovation gates wide open to compete with China, cuz they’re about to pass us

  • Global AI development splits into fast/slow lanes, and global GDPs will shortly thereafter follow like delayed shadows 

Why it'll happen:

  • EU's AI Act is already kneecapping European companies and it’s not even fully in effect yet yikes 

  • AGI panic is pushing countries to choose between AI innovation and job regulation

  • Companies are straight-up leaving restrictive markets - they can't afford to fall behind

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Numbers to watch

$260 Million

Neko, the body-scanning startup, has raised $260M at a $1.8B valuation.

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