Welcome to Get The Gist, where every weekday we share an easy-to-read summary of the latest and greatest developments in AI—news, innovations, and trends—all delivered in under 5 minutes! ⏱

In today’s edition:

• OpenAI Planning to Launch Specialized AI Agents

• Microsoft Launches New AI Sales Agents in Copilot

• Google Adds AI Search Mode to Take On Competitors

• Alibaba Launched New QwQ-32B Reasoning Model

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

OpenAI

OpenAI Planning to Launch Specialized AI Agents

The Gist: OpenAI is reportedly planning to introduce high-cost AI "agents" tailored for specialized tasks, with pricing reaching up to $20,000 per month. These agents are designed for various professional applications, from sales lead management to PhD-level research.

Key Details:

• OpenAI’s AI agents will target different professions, with a “high-income knowledge worker” agent priced at $2,000 per month and a software developer agent at $10,000.

• The most expensive agent, aimed at advanced research applications, is expected to cost $20,000 per month.

• SoftBank has reportedly committed $3 billion to OpenAI’s agent products in 2025.

• OpenAI is seeking new revenue streams after incurring approximately $5 billion in losses last year.

Microsoft

Microsoft Launches New AI Sales Agents in Copilot

The Gist: Microsoft is launching AI-driven sales agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot to help businesses manage leads and close deals more efficiently. These tools integrate with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Salesforce, directly competing with Salesforce’s own AI solutions.

Key Details:

• Microsoft’s Sales Agent and Sales Chat tools will be available in public preview starting May 2025.

• Sales Agent autonomously manages leads, schedules meetings, and engages prospects using CRM data and Microsoft 365 resources.

• Sales Chat provides real-time sales insights and analytics, helping reps identify deal risks and prepare customer strategies.

• Microsoft’s new AI Accelerator for Sales program will assist businesses transitioning from legacy CRM systems.

Google

Google Adds AI Search Mode to Take On Competitors

The Gist: Google is introducing an AI Mode in Search, powered by Gemini 2.0, to provide conversational responses and improved reasoning capabilities. This move positions Google Search as a direct competitor to ChatGPT Search and Perplexity AI.

Key Details:

• AI Mode enhances Google Search by allowing users to ask complex or follow-up questions for more nuanced responses.

• AI Overviews, now powered by Gemini 2.0, will improve responses for coding, advanced math, and multimodal queries.

• AI Overviews will be accessible to more users, including teenagers, without requiring a Google account.

• AI Mode will be available exclusively to Google One AI Premium subscribers as part of a controlled Google Labs experiment.

Quick Gist

Meta announced new AI tools for Facebook and Instagram to detect and block fake celebrity images in ads, aimed at combating scams tied to false endorsements (Read More).

Google Cloud has launched WeatherNext, an advanced AI weather forecasting model that enhances prediction accuracy for enterprises to better prepare for extreme weather events (Read More).

Apple will introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-powered app review summaries on App Store as part of the iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 software update (Read More).

Planet Labs announced it will utilize Anthropic's Claude AI to enhance the analysis of satellite imagery for environmental monitoring and insight generation (Read More).

Alibaba's Qwen team launched QwQ-32B, an efficient reasoning model with 32 billion parameters that competes with leading models in math and coding performance, expanding its context length to 131,072 tokens (Read More).

Google launched "AI Mode," an experimental feature for Google One AI Premium subscribers that enhances search capabilities by providing sophisticated answers to complex queries (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!