The Dawn of the Agent Age

Today on the AI Daily Brief, why we've just experienced the dawn of the agent era, and before that in the headlines, whatever issues Jensen Huang has with Sam Altman don't seem to be enough to stop them from investing $20,000,000,000 into OpenAI. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitsy, and Superintelligent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you are interested in sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Lastly, I would so appreciate it if you would take a little time to fill out the January AI usage pulse survey. It should take you less than two minutes. You can find it at a I daily brief dot a I. Anyone who does so will get the survey results a week before everyone else. And all in all, you'll be contributing to a better set of knowledge about how the world is using AI right now in this moment in real life. You can find it again at aidailybrief.ai, and thanks so much. Over the last couple of days into last weekend, there were some rumors floating around that maybe there had been some consternation or concern brewing between NVIDIA and OpenAI. Specifically, the reports were that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang had some complaints about how OpenAI was being run. At the end of last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that NVIDIA's $100,000,000,000 investment announced last year wasn't going ahead. Now the deal was framed in kind of a weird way. It was at the peak of all of OpenAI's deal announcements, and it was right as Wall Street was turning the corner on being really excited about all these big deals to being extremely skeptical of them. As much as the deal was framed as a memorandum of understanding rather than a fully consummate deal, still both companies made large announcements about it and played it up as if it was definitely moving forward. Citing anonymous sources, the journal wrote that more recently, Jensen has, quote, privately criticized what he described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach and expressed concern about the competition it faces from the likes of Google and Anthropic. On Saturday, Jensen told the press that the story was, in his words, nonsense. He added, we're going to make a huge investment in OpenAI. I believe in OpenAI. The work that they do is incredible. They are one of the most consequential companies of our time, and I really love working with Sam. We will invest a great deal of money, probably the largest investment we've ever made. At the same time, Jensen did take the chance to clarify that the $100,000,000,000 was never a guarantee from them. He framed it as OpenAI inviting them …