This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo critically assess the biggest tech news for the CIO Office:
- DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks Out
- Project Stargate: Sam Altman Strikes Back
- OpenAI Wants Operator to Control Your Computer
- Microsoft AutoGen and the New Event Driven Architecture
- Gartner Forecasts 9.8% IT Growth: Too Much or Not Enough?
- Can AI Replace Humans in the Gig Economy?
DeepSeek Simplifies AI, Big Tech Freaks Out
Little-known Chinese startup DeepSeek has shaken the tech world with an AI model, R1, that seems to work similarly to OpenAI’s finest, but with a $6 million development price tag and at 1/20th the token cost. And now US tech is freaking out at this breakthrough. How much should you believe and is the panic warranted?
Wired Coverage by Zeyi Yang https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-china-model-ai/
DeepSeek: https://www.deepseek.com/
Project Stargate: Sam Altman Strikes Back
The United States announced a $500 billion commitment to AI with President Donald Trump introducing SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Charles and Hyoun both discuss who was and wasn’t in the room as well as how much this actually means for enterprise AI.
CIODive https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-stargate-openAI-nvidia-oracle/738060/
OpenAI Wants Operator to Control Your Computer
OpenAI announced its keystroke and mouse-clicking agent Operator, which goes directly against Anthropic Claude’s Computer Use. Hyoun and Charles discuss the ramifications of having device interaction agents that act more like humans and have to deal with inefficient human UX factors.
OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/introducing-operator/
Microsoft AutoGen and the New Event-Driven Architecture
Microsoft provides an interesting enterprise AI update with its AutoGen 0.4 by taking on LangChain and CrewAI with concurrent and asynchronous agent orchestration. To get chains of agents working together, an enterprise agent architecture needs to be in place. Charles and Hyoun discuss how this announcement helps demonstrates how Microsoft is the only vendor truly taking on every piece of the AI stack.
Gartner Forecasts 9.8% IT Growth: Too Much or Not Enough?
Gartner releases an update on predicted IT budget spend for 2025. Hyoun points out how Gartner’s estimates tend to be conservative and reactionary while Charles points out some of the areas where Gartner’s may underestimate spend trends.
CIO.com coverage by Paula Rooney: https://www.cio.com/article/3808191/cost-concerns-put-cios-ai-strategies-on-edge.html
Can AI Replace Humans in the Gig Economy?
Henry Shi, co-founder of Super.com, tried to replace 1000 jobs with AI on UpWork and Freelancer.com. AI ended up being able to complete about 15% of those jobs, but is this a sign of the upcoming economic emergence of Artificial General Intelligence?