Elon Musk's xAI has launched a new agentic coding model called grok-code-fast-1, marking its entry into autonomous coding tools.
The model is described as 'speedy and economical,' designed to perform common coding tasks quickly and cost-effectively.
grok-code-fast-1 will be available for free for a limited time, with launch partners including GitHub Copilot and Windsurf.
AI companies like OpenAI and Microsoft are increasingly focusing on developing AI-powered coding assistants for users.
xAI recently sued Apple and OpenAI, alleging illegal conspiracy to stifle competition in the AI sector.
Elon Musk’s xAI Launches Fast, Affordable AI Coding Assistant: What You Need to Know
The world of artificial intelligence (AI) is moving fast, and now Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is jumping into a hot new area: AI-powered coding assistants. On August 29, 2025, xAI announced the release of its latest tool, called grok-code-fast-1. But what does this mean for everyday people and programmers? Let’s break it down.
What is an AI Coding Assistant?
Imagine you’re writing code for a website or an app. Normally, you’d have to type out every line yourself, look up documentation, and fix errors as you go. AI coding assistants are like super-smart helpers that can write code for you, suggest improvements, and even fix bugs—all automatically. They save time and make coding easier, especially for beginners or busy professionals.
What’s Special About xAI’s New Tool?
xAI’s grok-code-fast-1 is described as “speedy and economical.” In simple terms, it works quickly and doesn’t require a lot of computer power, making it cheaper to use. This is important because many AI tools can be expensive or slow, especially if you don’t have a powerful computer.
For a limited time, xAI is making grok-code-fast-1 available for free to select partners, including big names like GitHub Copilot and Windsurf. This means some users will get to try it out and see how it stacks up against other popular tools.
Why Is This a Big Deal?
AI coding assistants are becoming a major focus for tech companies. Microsoft, for example, has its own tool called GitHub Copilot, and OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) has a coding assistant called Codex. In fact, Microsoft’s CEO recently said that up to 30% of the code at Microsoft is now written by AI!
By launching grok-code-fast-1, xAI is joining the race to make coding faster, easier, and more accessible. Their tool aims to handle common coding tasks quickly and at a lower cost, which could be a game-changer for both professional developers and hobbyists.
The Bigger Picture
As more companies compete to build the best AI coding assistants, we can expect these tools to get even smarter and more helpful. Whether you’re a seasoned programmer or just starting out, AI helpers like grok-code-fast-1 could soon become an everyday part of writing code.
In short, Elon Musk’s xAI is making waves in the world of AI coding, and it’s worth keeping an eye on how these tools evolve in the coming months!
Every so often, a release drops that completely rewrites the rules of the game. Last week, that moment arrived with Deepseek v3.1.
This model didn’t come with weeks of hype or flashy teasers. It simply appeared on Hugging Face — and within hours, the AI world realized we had just entered a new era.
The Numbers That Made Everyone Stop
685 billion parameters
128,000 token context window
71.6% score on the Aider benchmark (beating Claude Opus 4)
68x cheaper to run than closed competitors
This wasn’t just impressive — it was disruptive. A model that outperformed one of the most advanced closed systems while costing a fraction to run. Developers quickly realized tasks that previously cost $70 could now be executed for around $1. For enterprises or startups running thousands of jobs daily, that’s the kind of shift that changes budgets overnight.
Speed and Scale Together
What really caught people off guard was speed. Traditionally, reasoning-heavy tasks slowed models to a crawl. But v3.1 ripped through complex inputs almost instantly. Its 128k context window means it can process inputs at the scale of novels (up to a tenth of Dream of the Red Chamber, for perspective) without buckling.
The Secret Sauce: A Hybrid Architecture
Deepseek didn’t just scale up; they re-engineered.
Older models split reasoning, chatting, and coding into separate “flavors.”
v3.1 merges it all into one flagship system.
No more fragments, no more compromises.
Community researchers even found hidden tokens inside the model:
search begin / search end → enabling real-time web search
think / end think → private reasoning before responding
That means v3.1 doesn’t just answer — it can pause, think, and fetch. Exactly the features people had been waiting for.
On MMLU (broad knowledge), it held its ground against GPT-5.
Even on tricky logic (like choosing 9.11 > 9.9), it avoided classic mistakes.
GPT-5 is still ahead on graduate-level reasoning and advanced coding, but the gap has never been this small — and never at this price point.
The Cost Earthquake
As AI researcher Andrew Christiansen put it:
“71.6% on Aider, 1% above Claude Opus 4, and 68 times cheaper.”
Those aren’t abstract numbers. They’re real-world savings. And when developers can literally do the math and see the difference in their workflows, adoption spreads fast.
A Strategic Masterstroke
The timing was no accident. GPT-5 and Claude 4 had just launched with premium pricing and gated APIs. Deepseek dropped v3.1 quietly, free and open source.
This move aligns with China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, which emphasized open AI development as global infrastructure. And it’s working: Hugging Face trending charts were instantly dominated, with v3.1 shooting into the top five within hours.
The Bigger Picture
Back in January, Deepseek’s claim of training at just $5.6M already rattled Nvidia’s stock.
With v3.1, they’ve proved it wasn’t a fluke.
The myth that only giant U.S. labs can build frontier AI is fading.
Sure, the full model is massive (nearly 700 GB). Most won’t run it locally. But with hosted versions already in the works, that barrier is collapsing too.
Enterprises now face a stark question: Why pay premium rates for closed systems when a free, frontier-level alternative exists?
The End of Artificial Scarcity
For years, what was “artificial” about AI wasn’t the intelligence. It was the scarcity — the closed access, the paywalls, the gated APIs. Deepseek just proved those walls aren’t necessary.
685B parameters. 128k tokens. Frontier performance. Zero paywalls.
This isn’t just another release. It’s a reset. And if this is just the road to v4, the real shock waves haven’t even started yet.
👉 What do you think — is Deepseek v3.1 the Linux moment for AI? Drop your thoughts in the comments.
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Here's everything important you need to know about GPT-5 (beyond hype):
1. It's available for free tier users as well 🫡.
2. It mainly 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝘀 in coding, reasoning, and agentic tasks across all domains. Tool support: search, image generation, and MCP.
3. Its hallucination rate is very low—for comparison: GPT-4o: 𝟮𝟮% vs GPT-5: 𝟭.𝟲% 📉
4. It supports 𝟰𝟬𝟬𝗸 tokens for input and 𝟭𝟮𝟴𝗸 for output, meaning a larger context window for both.
5. Released in three formats: 𝙂𝙋𝙏-5, 𝙂𝙋𝙏-5 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙞 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙂𝙋𝙏-5 𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙤. Reasoning variants also available.
6. The main thing is the cost, where it really shines: $𝟭.𝟮𝟱 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝗠 𝗶𝗻𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 $𝟭𝟬 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝗠 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀 💰
See the chart below to compare its pricing to all other competitor LLMs in the market. 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙣𝘼𝙄'𝙨 𝙗𝙞𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙨.
𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀: OpenAI also released an upgraded voice mode that's unlimited free for all Plus users, and increased hours for free tier users.
A Price Comparison Sheet (in search for the cheapest model)
Using Kimi-K2
This is some list and pricing of US based LLM models. Can you enhance/augment this list by adding Chinese models to this list
Below is an augmented price list that merges the original U.S.–based models with the most-widely-used Chinese large-language models (all prices converted to USD per 1 million tokens, Input / Output). Figures are taken from each vendor’s public pricing page on 9 Aug 2025 and rounded to two decimals.
🌏 Unified Price Sheet (USD / 1 M tokens)
Model
Input $/M
Output $/M
Origin
Notes
Claude Opus 4
15.00
75.00
🇺🇸 Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4
3.00
15.00
🇺🇸 Anthropic
Gemini 2.5 Pro (>200 k)
2.50
15.00
🇺🇸 Google
Rate for prompts >200 k tokens
GPT-4o
2.50
10.00
🇺🇸 OpenAI
GPT-4.1
2.00
8.00
🇺🇸 OpenAI
o3
2.00
8.00
🇺🇸 OpenAI
Reasoning model
Gemini 2.5 Pro (<200 k)
1.25
10.00
🇺🇸 Google
Rate for prompts ≤200 k tokens
GPT-5
1.25
10.00
🇺🇸 OpenAI
Latest flagship
GPT-4o-mini
1.10
4.40
🇺🇸 OpenAI
Claude 3.5 Haiku
0.80
4.00
🇺🇸 Anthropic
GPT-4.1-mini
0.40
1.60
🇺🇸 OpenAI
Gemini 2.5 Flash
0.30
2.50
🇺🇸 Google
GPT-5-mini
0.25
2.00
🇺🇸 OpenAI
GPT-4o-mini
0.15
0.60
🇺🇸 OpenAI
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
0.10
0.40
🇺🇸 Google
GPT-4.1-Nano
0.10
0.40
🇺🇸 OpenAI
Amazon Nova Lite
0.06
0.24
🇺🇸 Amazon
GPT-5-Nano
0.05
0.40
🇺🇸 OpenAI
Amazon Nova Micro
0.035
0.14
🇺🇸 Amazon
ERNIE 4.0 128K
0.53
1.60
🇨🇳 Baidu
Public cloud rate
ERNIE 3.5 8K
0.012
0.012
🇨🇳 Baidu
Ultra-lightweight
GLM-4 Plus
0.60
1.20
🇨🇳 Zhipu AI
GLM-4 Air
0.10
0.20
🇨🇳 Zhipu AI
GLM-4 Flash
0.02
0.06
🇨🇳 Zhipu AI
Qwen-Max 2025
0.80
2.40
🇨🇳 Alibaba Cloud
Qwen-Plus 2025
0.12
0.36
🇨🇳 Alibaba Cloud
Qwen-Turbo 2025
0.02
0.06
🇨🇳 Alibaba Cloud
Baichuan 4
0.60
1.20
🇨🇳 Baichuan AI
Baichuan 3-Turbo
0.12
0.24
🇨🇳 Baichuan AI
Hunyuan-Pro
0.70
2.10
🇨🇳 Tencent
Hunyuan-Standard
0.10
0.30
🇨🇳 Tencent
Spark 4.0 Ultra
0.60
1.80
🇨🇳 iFlytek
Spark 3.5 Max
0.10
0.30
🇨🇳 iFlytek
🔍 Legend & Tips
Input = prompt tokens you send; Output = tokens the model returns.
Prices may vary slightly by region or currency (CNY prices converted at 1 USD ≈ 7.23 CNY).
All Chinese vendors offer tiered discounts (≥30 %) once monthly usage exceeds 1 B tokens—contact their sales teams for enterprise rates.
Are there more cheaper models than available on this list?
Yes—there are several even-cheaper options (and some free ones) that did not appear on the original price sheet. I’ve grouped them by “truly cheaper than the cheapest line-item on the previous list” and “free / open-source you can self-host at pennies.”
🔖 Ultra-Cheap Cloud APIs (sub-$0.10 per 1 M tokens)
Model / Endpoint
Input $/M
Output $/M
Notes
Claude Lite (Anthropic via select partners)
0.30
0.30
Early-access program, rate-limited
Cohere Command R-7B
0.10
0.30
Summarization & RAG focus
Google PaLM 2 Starter
0.12
0.12
Very low rate-limits, good for prototyping
OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo (Batch API)
0.75
2.25
50 % off if you accept 24 h batch window
ERNIE Lite-8K (Baidu)
0.008
0.008
Chinese-language optimized [vendor page]
Qwen-Tiny-7B (Alibaba Cloud)
0.006
0.012
8 k context, Chinese & English [vendor page]
🧩 Open-source / Self-hostable (≈ free if you own GPUs or use spot instances)
Model
Size
Typical Cost on 1×A100 spot for 1 M tokens*
Notes
DeepSeek-V3-Base
671 B MoE
≈ $0.003–$0.005
Apache-2.0, outperforms GPT-4o on many benchmarks
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
8 B
≈ $0.0015
GGUF runs on 1×RTX 4090; great for chat
Mistral-Small-24B
24 B
≈ $0.002
Apache-2.0, strong reasoning & multilingual
Vicuna-13B
13 B
≈ $0.001
ShareGPT-tuned, good for QA bots
GPT-NeoX-20B
20 B
≈ $0.002
EleutherAI, permissive license
*Assuming $0.5–$0.8 per GPU-hour on AWS/GCP spot; cost scales linearly with prompt+completion length.
🧪 Completely Free Tiers / Research APIs
Perplexity Sonar-Huge-Online (rate-limited)
DeepSeek R1 Chat (web demo) – free while in research preview
Hugging-Face Inference Endpoints – 30 k tokens/day free on most GGUF models
Ollama – run any GGUF locally at zero marginal cost after download
🚀 TL;DR Cheapest Stack
Need rock-bottom price today?
ERNIE Lite-8K or Qwen-Tiny-7B via cloud API → ~ $0.008 / 1 M tokens
DeepSeek-V3 GGUF on a $0.40/hr spot A100 → ~ $0.004 / 1 M tokens
Llama-3.1-8B on your own RTX 4090 → effectively $0 after hardware pay-back
So yes—there are multiple tiers below the Amazon Nova Micro price floor on the original list, especially if you are willing to use Chinese ultra-light APIs or self-host open-source weights.
Can you give me the pricing estimate of HelpingAI's models?
HelpingAI does not publish any per-token pricing on its own website or in its GitHub repos at the moment . All current models (HelpingAI-15B, HelpingAI2-9B, HelpingAI2-5B, Dhanistha-large, etc.) are released only as open-source weights under Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face . That means:
Cost = whatever you pay for compute. – A 9 B model on an RTX 4090 at $0.50/hr → ≈ $0.002 per 1 M tokens .
No managed API is offered today; you self-host or use a third-party provider that has mirrored the weights (none of the major serverless endpoints list HelpingAI yet).
So, until HelpingAI launches a hosted endpoint, the effective price is the GPU rental cost of the machine you run it on.
GPT-5 consolidates multiple prior variants into a single, unified model that handles text, images, voice, and even video seamlessly—no need to select between versions like 4, 4o, turbo, etc. Spaculus SoftwareThe VergeEl País.
2. Persistent Memory & Huge Context Window
GPT-5 remembers across sessions—retaining project details, tone, and preferences—making interactions feel more continuous and natural. Its context window has expanded dramatically, reportedly supporting up to 1 million tokens (or ~256 k tokens per some sources) Spaculus SoftwareThe Times of IndiaCinco Días.
3. Improved Reasoning & Task Autonomy
Unlike GPT-4 which sometimes needed explicit “chain-of-thought” prompts, GPT-5 integrates reasoning natively and reliably, delivering structured, multi-step answers by default. Spaculus SoftwareThe VergeThe Washington Post. It can go further—executing tasks like scheduling meetings, drafting emails, updating databases, generating slides, and even coding autonomously within a conversation. Spaculus SoftwareThe Washington PostThe Times of India.
4. Better Accuracy, Less Hallucination, and “PhD-level” Expertise
GPT-5 brings a major upgrade in reasoning, factual accuracy, and creativity. It’s less prone to flattery or misleading answers (“sycophancy”), and better at writing nuanced, human-like responses. The model now resembles a “PhD-level expert” in its dialogue quality. The GuardianThe VergeThe Washington Post.
5. Enhanced Integration & Developer Features
GPT-5 supports deep integrations with apps like Gmail and Google Calendar—so it can help schedule, draft, and manage tasks with context. For developers, it includes native ability to call tools, invoke APIs, and chain actions—all without external plugins. The GuardianThe Washington PostThe Times of India.
GPT-4.5 (and 4.1): A Transition Step
GPT-4.5 offered noticeable improvements over GPT-4—better accuracy, emotional intelligence, multilingual fluency, and reduced hallucinations. However, it lacked the leap in reasoning, memory, and autonomy that mark GPT-5. scalablehuman.comPaperblog.
Evolution Timeline Recap
GPT-3.5 → GPT-4: Improved general reasoning, broader context, multimodal input.
GPT-4 → 4.1 → 4.5: Incremental refinements in emotion, accuracy, and conversational tone.
GPT-5: A transformational leap—unified model, persistent memory, massive context, native reasoning and autonomy, tool/task execution, and expert-level responses.
In Summary
GPT-5 elevates the user experience from “getting answers” to “getting things done.” It’s your project partner, not just your assistant—capable of reasoning, remembering, acting, and conversing like an expert.
Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a new AI reasoning feature for Google AI Ultra subscribers.
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think outperforms competitors like Grok-4 and OpenAI o3 in complex reasoning tasks.
The feature is available in the Gemini app, with users able to enable it via the Gemini 2.5 Pro option and a daily prompt limit.
Deep Think integrates with tools such as code execution and Google Search for enhanced functionality.
Google plans to expand access to Deep Think through the Gemini API, allowing broader use by developers and enterprise testers.
Google Unveils Gemini 2.5 Deep Think: The Next Big Leap in AI Reasoning
If you’ve been following the world of artificial intelligence, you know that Google’s Gemini models have been making waves. Now, Google has just launched something even more impressive: Gemini 2.5 Deep Think. This new feature is designed to take AI reasoning to the next level—and early reports say it’s already outperforming some of the biggest names in the field, including Grok-4 and OpenAI’s o3.
What is Gemini 2.5 Deep Think?
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think is a powerful new AI tool that’s now available to Google AI Ultra subscribers through the Gemini app. What sets Deep Think apart is its ability to handle really complex reasoning tasks—think of it as an AI that can “think deeper” and solve tougher problems than before. After months of testing and research behind the scenes, Google is finally letting more people try it out.
How Can You Use It?
If you’re a Google AI Ultra subscriber, getting started is easy. Just open the Gemini app, select the Gemini 2.5 Pro model, and turn on the “Deep Think” option. There’s a limit to how many prompts you can use each day, but the feature works seamlessly with other tools like code execution and Google Search. This means you can ask Deep Think to help with everything from writing code to answering tricky research questions.
Why Does This Matter?
AI models are getting smarter, but true “reasoning”—the ability to connect the dots, solve puzzles, and think through complicated scenarios—has always been a challenge. With Deep Think, Google is pushing the boundaries of what AI can do. Early users say it’s already beating out competitors like Grok-4 and OpenAI o3 when it comes to handling tough questions and complex tasks.
What’s Next?
Google isn’t stopping here. The company plans to open up access to Deep Think through the Gemini API, which means developers and businesses will soon be able to build their own apps and tools using this advanced AI. This could lead to smarter chatbots, better research assistants, and new ways to solve problems in fields like science, education, and business.
In Short
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think is Google’s latest step forward in AI, offering more powerful reasoning than ever before. Whether you’re a developer, a researcher, or just curious about the future of technology, this is one AI breakthrough you’ll want to keep an eye on.
Kimi K2: The Free AI Super-Agent That's Changing the Game!
Meet Kimi K2: a groundbreaking new AI model from Chinese company Moonshot AI. It's powerful, surprisingly affordable, and even free to try – a true game-changer in the world of artificial intelligence!
What Makes Kimi K2 So Smart?
Imagine an AI that doesn't just answer questions but can actually do things. That's Kimi K2. It's built with a special "Mixture-of-Experts" (MoE) design, which means it's like having a massive team of specialized AI brains working together. When you give it a task, it intelligently picks the best "experts" for the job, making it super efficient and accurate. This "brain" is incredibly large, with a staggering 1,000 billion parameters, meaning it's packed with immense knowledge.
Even better, Kimi K2 is "open-source" with "open weights." This means its core technology is freely available for developers to download and build upon, unlike many closed AI systems.
More Than Just a Chatbot: Your AI Agent
Kimi K2 isn't designed for simple conversations. It's built for "agentic intelligence." Think of it as a highly capable assistant that can break down complex problems, use various tools (like a human would), write and fix code, and even manage entire workflows without constant human help. It's been trained on millions of simulated dialogues, teaching it how to act and achieve specific goals.
It also boasts an impressive "memory" – a 128,000 token context window – allowing it to process and understand vast amounts of information at once, perfect for long documents or complex projects.
Outperforming the Big Names (for Less!)
Surprisingly, Kimi K2 often performs better than well-known models like OpenAI's GPT-4.1 and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 in coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It's significantly cheaper! While you can use it for free via Moonshot AI's official chat, its paid API access is a tiny fraction of competitors' costs – around $0.60 per million words you input.
Who Is Kimi K2 For?
This AI is a dream come true for:
* Developers & Researchers: Its open nature makes it perfect for building custom AI solutions.
* Businesses: Ideal for automating complex coding tasks and managing processes.
* Anyone on a Budget: Get top-tier AI performance without breaking the bank.
Things to Keep in Mind:
Currently, Kimi K2 doesn't understand images. Also, its main chat interface is in Chinese, so a translation tool might be handy. For large commercial uses, a specific license clause requires mentioning "Kimi K2."
Ready to Try the Future of AI?
Kimi K2 is a powerful, cost-effective, and accessible AI model that's pushing the boundaries of what AI can do. Whether you're a developer, a business, or simply curious about the latest in AI, Kimi K2 is definitely worth exploring. It's truly a game-changer!
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In May 2025, Microsoft laid off 7,000 employees, which was 3% of their total workforce. However, immediately after, they made an announcement that shook the corporate world: they are going to spend $80 billion this year on AI infrastructure. Not over the next 5 or 8 years, but $80 billion within 12 months on AI data centers. This news should be very important for all of us, because this is a sign of the changes that are coming in the next 5-10 years.
In this video, we will talk about perhaps the biggest transformation of our generation: Generative AI and Machine Learning.
## What's Happening Around Generative AI and Why It's So Important
Research is throwing up a lot of statistics. Recently, I was reading a research report which said that AI could potentially remove 300 million jobs across the world, which is around 9-10% of the total jobs that are currently available. Because of this, many people are scared that jobs will be lost and AI will take our jobs. However, the same fear was present when computers arrived, when smartphones arrived, when industrialization happened, and when the internet arrived. The same fear is being felt today. But I, being a technologist and an optimist, believe that this absolute event in global history is also perhaps the biggest opportunity for all of us.
The World Economic Forum predicts that between 2023 and 2027, there will be a 40% increase in demand for AI and Machine Learning jobs. In fact, since 2019, when it felt like we didn't even know about AI, AI-related jobs have been increasing by an average of 21% annually, faster than most other jobs out there in the world.
However, whenever there is such rapid movement, demand is very high, and supply is limited. I still remember when I was in school and college, ITES (IT Enabled Services) was blowing up. All our college students were in some call center or undergoing some training, and the demand was through the roof. You could walk into any call center interview, and your job was guaranteed, with amazing perks and a good lifestyle. You would get accent training for foreign languages, pick-up services, work in very good offices, and working hours were conducive, allowing you to study and work. It was a completely different era for 5 to 10 years. Then IT services came, and the same thing happened: people started going onsite to the US, UK, and Australia, earning in dollars and spending in rupees. It was a complete transformation.
The same thing I can see happening in AI as well. The demand for jobs is so rapid that the supply cannot keep up. In fact, in the US alone, it's expected that AI jobs will reach 1.3 million opportunities, but skilled labor is only around 640,000, nearly half of the demand that is actually required. For India, I tried to find the same report and saw one that said by 2027, there will be a shortfall of 1 million jobs. This means there will be a requirement for 1 million AI jobs, but there won't be enough people if we don't start investing in skilling people right now. Microsoft's announcement is in that direction itself.
Rat Smith, a senior leader at Microsoft, mentioned in an interview that AI is like the electricity of our generation or our age. Just like in 1900, electricity transformed everything, leading to industrialization, the light bulb, and people working longer hours, it changed the way we interacted with machines, and our jobs also changed accordingly. The same thing is going to happen with AI, where AI is ready to do so much day-to-day work, administrative work, and run-of-the-mill tasks, so that we can elevate our work and be far more useful in what we do, as against wasting time doing things that a machine or an LLM can do today.
## The Three Types of Reactions to Technological Shifts
While researching for this video, I thought about technological shifts. In my time, I have seen two of them: one, which I will definitely say is the computer itself, because I was born in 1980, so I saw the computer revolution, at least to the point where we saw the internet become such a force and an enabler. And the second, I do believe, is the smartphone revolution in 2008-2009, when the iPhone was released, which also changed the industry so massively. So I have seen these two waves, and I see that AI is going to be perhaps the third wave, at least in my life.
Whenever such a wave comes, there are three types of reactions and three types of people:
1. **Early Adopters:** These are the people who don't resist this change; they embrace it. They see that it's impossible for people not to use this, and it would be foolish to say that every person won't be using this tomorrow. It's almost like if I had said in 2005 that there would be a phone with which we could use the internet, and because of that, every person would have a computer in their pocket, and if you move in that direction, you will make brilliant careers, people would have laughed at me and said, 'What nonsense are you talking about? Nothing is going to happen. Let's just stay on our desktops, and we are happy there.' You would have missed the wave. But there were people who were like, 'We know what's happening. We can see what's happening in the US. The world is so connected now that news from there reaches here instantly. We can see what companies there are investing in.' I am telling you that Microsoft is going to spend $80 billion, and it's just one company, and it will be spent in just one year. So imagine how important AI will be for the entire technology world. So clearly, there is a direction.
Then I was looking at this data: how long did it take these platforms to reach 100 million users? Netflix took 18 years, Spotify took 11 years, Twitter took 5 years, Facebook took 4.5 years, Instagram took 2.5 years, YouTube reached 100 million users within 1.5 years, TikTok reached it within 9 months, and ChatGPT had 100 million users within two months. Its average user base as of April 2025 is around 800 million, nearly 1 billion people. This means one out of seven people is using ChatGPT, a software that can replace the work of so many people and, of course, make work easier. This is the power, and you cannot deny it. So early adopters see these things.
2. **Followers:** What do followers do? They look at early adopters and say, 'These people are going there; let's go there too, because something is happening there.' I will give an example from my own life: I joined ISB when ISB was 5 years old, so I would call myself an early adopter. Today, someone who follows ISB after 20 years is a follower because they see that many people have gone to ISB, it's a very good school, and you get good money, etc., so they should go. So these are people who follow. It's not that they will not win, but it's possible that their outcome will be slightly less than that of the early adopters.
3. **Naysayers:** These are the people who don't believe that anything like this is going to happen. Even today, I meet people who say, 'AI will not replace humans. Take it in writing, my friend, within 50 years, you will see fewer humans and more AI. Our world will be around AI, and that will not be a scary or a bad world to be in. It will actually be, in my opinion, a more efficient world to live in, so that we have time for all the things that we, as humans, should have time for.'
## The Call to Action: Become an Early Adopter
Why am I telling you all this? I am telling you this because I want you to become an early adopter. Being an early adopter doesn't mean that if you didn't use AI in 2021, 2022, or 2023, you are left behind. Now, it means that if you don't embrace this fully in the next 5 years, you are now going to either be a follower or a naysayer, the third category who will definitely be fired or laid off.
To become an early adopter, what do you need to do? You essentially have to get skilled. Skilling is the most important thing. Of course, you can learn on your own, stumble, make mistakes, and achieve all this, but the truth is that this field is changing so rapidly and dynamically that getting professional help as soon as possible will be a better way to skill yourself. And that's why SimplyLearn offers the Professional Certificate Program in Generative AI or Generative AI and Machine Learning. The good thing is that this curriculum is actually designed by the E&ICT Academy of IIT Guwahati, so it comes from a very elite perspective and a certification that holds weight.
It's an 11-month program, live, online, and interactive, so it's not self-paced where you learn on your own. And if you really see, which is where I spent time, what the learning path is, what things are covered, it actually covers everything that one needs to know about Generative AI and Machine Learning right now. I am talking about this program because SimplyLearn sponsored this video, but of course, the key is for you to recognize which course will be best for you when you want to step ahead and make the investment in your skilling around Generative AI and Machine Learning. In my experience and research, I found this course to be quite complete in what it covers, and of course, the backing it has from IIT Guwahati and the fact that it also comes from a recognized platform.
I would encourage you to check out the course, see if it fits both your requirements, your aptitude, your budget, and then make a call. You will get certificates from both IIT Guwahati and IBM, who have also partnered for this course. So, the industry certification by IBM, there are also masterclasses by experts, and AMA sessions and hackathons so that whatever you learn, you can actually apply.
## The Market Potential and a Personal Anecdote
The market size of Generative AI in 2022 was about $40 billion. In the next 10 years, it is expected to reach $1.3 trillion. That's an annual growth rate of 42%. If any investment is giving you a 42% annual growth rate, take it with your eyes closed. And in my head, this is the investment to make. If we talk about India, it is said that by 2025-2026, AI will have a positive impact of $100 billion on India's GDP.
I joined Twitter in 2007. But at that time, I didn't take it seriously; it seemed like a very complicated platform. Who uses it? What kind of people are there? What do they talk about? etc. But in 2009-2010, there was a discussion on Twitter about something that people, especially in the tech world, especially in Silicon Valley, became very interested in. And I remember hearing about Bitcoin for the first time around that time. I thought it was nonsense. Now, did I have ₹10,000-₹20,000 to invest in Bitcoin at that point in time? Yes, but I didn't. Why? Because it was a technological shift where I was not an early adopter. In fact, I would argue I was a late follower because I bought my first Bitcoin around 2014-2015, and I actually became serious around 2019-2020. Yes, I am not a naysayer, but the point I am trying to make is, if I had invested ₹10,000 in Bitcoin in 2010 after seeing and reading everything on Twitter as an early follower, do you know what its value would be today? ₹2,370 crore. And even if I had lost that ₹10,000, I would not be poor today. That's the way you have to think about Generative AI and Machine Learning today.
If you learn this, invest your time in it, and diligently try to improve your skills, you may have a completely different outcome in the next 5 to 10 years from what you can get today. But if, God forbid, for whatever reason, this whole Generative AI and Machine Learning hype doesn't pan out, you will still end up good. You won't lose anything; you won't be poor; you won't be lost in your life, because that's the power of being an early adopter. When you make a move, you end up learning something new that will set you off for life. The question is, how high will you go? You won't go down. So I will encourage you to take that leap forward, invest in learning about AI professionally from a skilled place, from a certified place, from a place of repute. And because this video is sponsored by SimplyLearn, I have presented you with one course option which you can evaluate, and I think it might suit your requirements very well.
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