📅 January 2025 Summary

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📰 TOP NEWS

Summary

1/ At CES 2025, major advancements in AI and automation tools were unveiled, showcasing a range of new features and integrations. These developments are set to transform industries, boosting productivity and creativity across sectors.

2/ OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared that the company is confident about building artificial general intelligence (AGI) and predicts AI agents could start taking on tasks in the workforce by 2025. Despite some skepticism from critics, OpenAI continues to advance its AI models, such as the o3 SR model, which has shown strong performance in math benchmarks.

3/ NVIDIA introduced AI Blueprints, models that companies can integrate into their software to help employees with tasks like customer service and administrative work. CEO Jensen Huang predicts that by 2025, IT teams will oversee these AI agents, managing them like human employees to ensure alignment with company culture and values.

4/ Google is testing a new feature, Daily Listen, which creates personalized audio podcasts based on a user's Search and Discover feed history. Currently available to select Android and iOS users in the US through Search Labs, it summarizes news articles into five-minute audio overviews, complete with transcripts and interactive controls.

5/ Cohere, a Toronto-based AI startup, has launched an early access program for North, its new AI workspace platform designed to compete with Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI. North allows businesses to easily create, customize, and deploy AI agents for various functions, while focusing on security and private deployments, including air-gapped environments.

6/ OpenAI's new Economic Blueprint aims to ensure the U.S. leads in AI innovation, with equitable access and broad economic benefits. It calls for common-sense regulations to promote safety, competition, and innovation across the country.

7/ Microsoft is launching CoreAI – Platform and Tools, a new engineering division to build the AI-first application stack, integrating Azure, GitHub, and VS Code for AI app development. This division will focus on creating agent-driven applications and improving developer productivity to accelerate AI innovation across industries.

8/ OpenAI has launched a new "tasks" feature for ChatGPT, allowing users to schedule tasks like daily weather updates or reminders. This feature, currently in beta for ChatGPT Plus, Teams, and Pro users, marks a step toward agentic AI, enabling ChatGPT to perform tasks automatically on behalf of users.

9/ DeepSeek has released its R1 model family, with the largest version containing 671 billion parameters, available under an open MIT license. The models, including smaller distilled versions, offer strong performance in math and coding benchmarks, though cloud-hosted versions are subject to content filtering due to Chinese regulations.

10/ OpenAI has launched a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose AI agent capable of automating tasks like booking travel and shopping online, available to U.S. users on the $200 Pro subscription plan. The agent uses a dedicated web browser to perform tasks but requires user supervision for sensitive actions like banking transactions.

11/ Convergence has launched Proxy, an AI assistant designed to automate web tasks like booking flights and analyzing data, with customizable features for repeated tasks. Available globally with a free tier and paid plans starting at $20/month, Proxy aims to enhance productivity and streamline life and work tasks.

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