AI in 2025: Multimodal, Agentic, and Responsible
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AI in 2025: Multimodal, Agentic, and Responsible
OpenAI: Evolving for the Future of AI
On The AI Edge
AI Start-up news
New Tools, New Possibilities
AI Career Horizon
THE AI SIGNAL PICKS
According to a report, Microsoft and OpenAI have a unique, profit-driven definition of AGI. Their agreement stipulates that OpenAI has only achieved AGI when its AI systems generate at least $100 billion in profits. This financial definition differs significantly from the rigorous technical and philosophical understanding of AGI commonly held by many.
OpenAI, like Visa, aims to dominate its market. Visa's success stemmed from creating barriers to entry. However, as payment processing was commoditized, Visa faced threats and resorted to legal tactics. OpenAI, despite its promising revenue projections, faces a similar threat: the commoditization of its core technology, LLMs. While OpenAI may initially benefit from its current dominance, maintaining its position will require strategic maneuvering, potentially similar tactics to those employed by Visa.
THE BIG LEAP
AI in 2025: Multimodal, Agentic, and Responsible
Signal Scoop: 2024 saw a surge in AI adoption. In 2025, we can expect further evolution, with multimodal models, agentic AI, and a strong focus on responsible AI practices shaping the landscape.
The Full Picture:
Multimodal Models: Integrating text, images, and more, these models unlock insights from diverse data sources.
Agentic AI: AI agents capable of intelligent decision-making automate complex tasks, enhancing efficiency.
Responsible Gen AI: Emphasizes ethical use, including employee training to mitigate bias and ensure trustworthy AI outputs.
What You Can’t Miss: These trends will significantly impact businesses in 2025 and beyond. Multimodal models will streamline operations and unlock new insights from unstructured data. Agentic AI will automate tasks, improving efficiency and customer experience. Responsible AI practices will build trust and ensure the ethical and beneficial use of AI technologies.
OpenAI: Evolving for the Future of AI
Signal Scoop: OpenAI is evolving its structure to better fulfill its mission of ensuring artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. This involves transitioning the for-profit entity into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), strengthening the non-profit arm, and ensuring both entities are well-equipped to contribute to the advancement of safe and beneficial AI.
The Full Picture:
PBC for-profit: Allows for conventional equity investment, enabling OpenAI to raise the necessary capital for continued research and development.
Stronger non-profit: Will receive a significant stake in the PBC, providing substantial resources for charitable initiatives and advancing the mission of benefiting humanity.
Clearer roles: Defines distinct roles and responsibilities for the non-profit and for-profit, ensuring better alignment and coordination towards the shared mission.
What You Can’t Miss: The significance of OpenAI's structural evolution lies in its potential to ensure long-term sustainability, facilitate capital raising, strengthen the non-profit's impact, and promote responsible AI development. By transitioning to a PBC structure, OpenAI can attract substantial investment, enabling continued research and development at a necessary scale. Simultaneously, the empowered non-profit will be better equipped to address global challenges through AI-powered solutions, aligning commercial success with broader societal good and emphasizing responsible AI development.
ON THE AI EDGE
Microsoft is forcing Copilot on its customers in some countries by including it in Microsoft 365 and raising prices for everyone. This approach has upset users like Alistair Fleming, who found Copilot intrusive and unwanted. Fleming, who uses Word for his YouTube channel, was irritated by Copilot's constant suggestions and the price increase for a service he didn't necessarily want.
The DORA Accelerate State of DevOps report is valuable for understanding the practices and capabilities driving high-performing technology organizations. The tenth edition of the report explores the impact of AI on work and its effect on overall technology performance. It also examines how various factors influence software development and delivery performance, such as platform engineering, developer experience, and organizational transformation.
OpenAI experienced a major outage on Thursday, impacting ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer API for over four hours. Services gradually returned online around 3:16 p.m. PT, following an initial disruption at 11 a.m. PT. This marks the second significant outage for ChatGPT this month, highlighting the potential for disruptions in AI services.
AI START-UP NEWS
Top AI Startups Revolutionizing the Industry in 2024
Fluid AI is an AI solutions provider that empowers businesses with data-driven insights. They offer various services, including data analytics, predictive modeling, AI-powered customer engagement, and NLP-based tools.
LegalOn streamlines contract management with an AI-powered platform. It automates tasks like document analysis, risk identification, and revision suggestions, ensuring efficiency and compliance while minimizing manual effort.
Character AI empowers businesses to build sophisticated AI characters for diverse purposes. These AI-powered personalities, driven by generative AI models, can understand and respond to users with context, emotions, and personalization, elevating user engagement across various applications.
Read AI leverages NLP and machine learning to analyze meetings in real time. The platform provides valuable insights by tracking participant engagement, identifying key discussion points, offering improvement recommendations, and conducting sentiment analysis to assess the overall meeting mood.
Aindra Systems specializes in AI-powered diagnostic tools that aid in early disease detection. By leveraging AI and machine learning to analyze medical images and patient data.
NEW TOOLS, NEW POSSIBILITIES
Krisp: A conference calling application that utilizes algorithms to eliminate background noise, echo, and other distractions in real time, ensuring clear and professional communication.
Lumen5: An AI-powered video creation platform that produces high-quality videos for education, marketing, or business purposes.
Podcastle: An AI-powered audio platform that streamlines podcast creation by automating tasks.
Shoonya AI: Vertical Foundational models fine-tuned for commerce use cases.
Soundraw: An automated music generator that creates royalty-free AI music by allowing users to select genre, instruments, mood, and track length.
AI CAREER HORIZON
Ericsson: GenAI Data Scientist
Google: Product Manager, Google Distributed Cloud, Compliance, Security
Microsoft: Principal Product Manager
Target: Sr Data Scientist
Walmart Global Tech India Global Tech: Data Scientist III
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