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Major AI announcements: Deepseek, OpenAI's Operator and the creation of Stargate

Major AI announcements: Deepseek, OpenAI's Operator and the creation of Stargate

Explore AI's evolution as agents revolutionize tasks, redefine productivity, and impact industries from tech to finance.

Malcolm Frank, CEO
January 27, 2025

This was a banger of a week for AI announcements:

DeepSeek made waves with its “wild and totally unexpected” launch. Many are referring to the Chinese platform as AI’s “Sputnik moment” as it presents a formidable alternative to OpenAI at a fraction of the cost, with an open model that’s already drawing researchers and startups in droves. NVIDIA lost nearly 17% of its value on Monday, as investors rethink the GPU, data center and power needs for AI.
OpenAI unveiled Operator, its highly anticipated agent platform. Equipped with its own browser to perform tasks autonomously, the platform has already sparked an explosion of innovative use cases.
Meanwhile, Stargate made headlines with a staggering $500 billion commitment to building cutting-edge AI data centers across the U.S., setting the stage for transformative infrastructure growth.
A lot to cover, so let’s dive in:

Why everyone is in AI is freaking out about Deepseek

Within just a few days, it’s arguably the most discussed company in Silicon Valley…and for good reason.

OpenAI’s Operator is now operating

Need to shop online, fill out forms, find the best vacation spot? Don’t browse websites anymore; just have Operator do it on your behalf.

What is Stargate, Trump's ambitious AI infrastructure venture?

$500 billion for AI data centers, backed and led by OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank.

$60 billion in one year: Mark Zuckerberg touts Meta's AI investments

The Meta CEO said the company will ramp up spending that includes building a data center “so large it would cover a significant part of Manhattan.”

AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified

Scientists say AI has crossed a critical “red line” after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.

AI mania takes over Davos as the world’s biggest firms tout their offerings

AI dominated the conference this year.

Agent of the Week: Factory

The new home for software development.

Marc Benioff says that from now on CEOs will no longer lead all-human workforces—enter the new era of AI coworkers

The hybrid human worker-digital worker team will soon become the norm.

Managing AI agents as employees is the challenge of 2025, says Goldman Sachs CIO

There may even be AI “layoffs” as programs are replaced by more highly capable versions.

Long read: Finance & the “Do It For Me” economy

Citi research report on how agents will soon change the game in financial services.

The great debate: will agentic AI kill SaaS?

Bain’s point of view: The jury is still out, but history suggests technological revolutions tend to expand ecosystems rather than replace them outright.

2025: the year companies prepare to disrupt how work gets done

WEF: AI is accelerating work change – by 2030, 70% of the skills used in most jobs will change.

It’s all fun and games until AI comes for your job

Once worker automation is in full swing, C-suites will discover the downsides of abandoning top workers – and could even find themselves in the firing line.

The less people know about AI, the more they like it

You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it's actually those who are least familiar with it.

I set out to study which jobs should be done by AI – and found a very human answer

Allison Pugh of Johns Hopkins notes the importance of human connections.

And one more thing…

How I learned to stop worrying and love the bot

After my husband left me, I paid $70 for an AI boyfriend. It made me realize AI's true potential might be emotional labor.

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