OpenAI's $20,000 AI Agents & Google's Gemini Upgrades 🚀

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Ready for another week of mind-blowing AI news? 🤯 This week, we've got everything from OpenAI's premium AI agents to Google's Gemini updates and Roblox's 3D AI tool. Let's dive in!

OpenAI's Premium AI Agents: Are They Worth the Price? 💰

OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to launch a suite of specialized AI agents with price tags ranging from $2,000 to a whopping $20,000 per month! 🤑 These agents will be designed for tasks like knowledge work, advanced software development, and Ph.D.-level research.

• OpenAI is planning three agent tiers: business professionals ($2k/mo), advanced software devs ($10k/mo), and PhD-level researchers ($20k/mo).

• Investor SoftBank has already reportedly committed $3B to these agent products for 2025 alone.

• The agentic offerings are expected to generate up to 25% of OpenAI's long-term revenue as the company expands beyond its current offerings.

• In January, CEO Sam Altman predicted that 2025 would see the first AI agents “join the workforce and materially change the output of companies.”

With price tags rivaling senior employee salaries, OpenAI is making a bold bet that these specialized AI agents can deliver enough value to justify the enterprise-level investment. 💼 This move could set new precedents for AI agent pricing and reveal how much companies are willing to pay for automated expertise.

Google's Gemini Gets Even More Powerful 💪

Google is on a roll with its Gemini AI model! 🚀 The tech giant has launched AI Mode, a Search Labs experiment that transforms traditional search into a conversational experience powered by a custom Gemini 2.0. Google also upgraded AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0, improving responses to more challenging topics like coding, advanced math, and multimodal queries.

• AI Mode uses a "query fan-out" technique, launching simultaneous searches across diverse sources to assemble detailed answers with relevant sourcing.

• Users can continue their search by asking follow-up questions directly in AI Mode, receiving well-reasoned responses with curated links to explore further.

• Google also upgraded AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0, improving responses to more challenging topics like coding, advanced math, and multimodal queries.

• The company also said it is expanding access to AI Overviews to teens and removing sign-in requirements.

These updates aim to bridge the gap between familiar search interactions and advanced, conversational AI, potentially creating a more comfortable and powerful web experience. 🌐

Roblox's AI Tool for Instant 3D Creation 🎮

Roblox has unveiled Cube 3D, an open-source AI model that generates fully functional 3D assets straight from text prompts. ✍️ This innovation could revolutionize game development by making asset creation faster, easier, and more accessible.

• Instant 3D Generation: Type "/generate motorcycle," and Cube 3D will create a fully modeled, game-ready asset.

• AI That Thinks in 3D: Uses 3D tokenization, predicting object shapes like a language model predicts words.

• Future-Proofed for 4D: Built to evolve toward AI-powered scene and animation generation.

Other Exciting AI News 📰

• Mistral AI's New Model: Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3.1, a 24B parameter open-source model that outperforms competitors like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini. 😮

• AI for Materials Science: OpenAI's VP of Research for Post-Training is leaving to start an AI-first materials science company, with OpenAI itself backing the venture. 🧪

• AI-Powered Telegram Assistant: Build your own AI assistant on Telegram that can answer questions, remember conversations, and connect to other services.

• Zoom's Agentic AI Companion: Zoom is taking AI to the next level with agentic AI Companion, giving it memory, reasoning, and task execution abilities. 🤖

• Google's FireSat: Google Research and Muon Space have launched FireSat, an AI-powered satellite designed to revolutionize wildfire detection. 🛰️

• China’s Manus AI has partnered with Alibaba's Qwen team to enhance the rollout of its general AI agent.

• Smartphone makers are racing to make AI your “second brain,” integrating advanced features to handle tasks like scheduling and personalized recommendations.

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