Assessing Manus: The Future of Agentic AI
AI startup Butterfly Effect introduced Manus on March 6, 2025. Manus positions itself as a general AI agent that acts autonomously. Manus is getting a lot of attention leading up to general availability and is worth watching.
AI Transformation Brief – March 2025
The latest AI announcements and offerings from Manus AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, the UK federal government, and the Canadian federal government.
AI Transformation Brief – February 2025
The latest AI announcements and offerings from DeepSeek, OpenAI, AWS, Google, Azure, Salesforce, Hugging Face, Cohere, the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, and the European Union.
Assessing DeepSeek: Disruption in the AI Industry
A startup AI company from China has upended the AI LLM market in less than a week. The implications of DeepSeek’s latest LLM version, DeepSeek-R1, will ripple through the industry like a tidal wave.
AI Transformation Brief – January 2025
The latest AI announcements and offerings from Meta, OpenAI, Apple, California State, and the White House.
AI Transformation Brief – December 2024
The latest AI announcements and offerings from Amazon’s re:Invent 2024 and Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 conferences, Google’s Gemini 2.0 foundation model, voluntary AI guidelines for critical infrastructure from the US Department of Homeland Security, and the discovery that various foundation models are capable of in-context scheming to achieve their goals.
AI Transformation Brief – November 2024
The latest AI news on the next frontier and battleground for AI (AI agents), the growing adoption of nuclear power to meet AI computing demands, Anthropic uses agentic AI to transform the user experience, Google NotebookLM goes viral, and OpenAI attempts to disrupt Google search with ChatGPT search.
AI Transformation Brief – October 2024
The latest AI news on regulations from the United Nations and the state of California along with the latest global AI ranking of nations, the Nobel Prize awarded to AI pioneers, and the first person to be charged with fraud for using AI to defraud music streaming platforms.
AI Transformation Brief – September 2024
The latest AI legislative news from California and the Federal Trade Commission along with the latest AI technology news from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Anthropic.
AI Transformation Brief – August 2024
The latest AI news from Meta, Intuit, and OpenAI; the rise of small language models; and the latest update on AI regulations.
AI Transformation Brief – July 2024
The latest AI news from AWS, Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI, Microsoft, and upcoming AI regulations.
AI Transformation Brief – June 2024
Big Tech vendors (in general) fail to demonstrate responsible AI and continue to lag in delivering greater transparency into their LLMs.
AI Transformation Brief – May 2024
Prepared buyers are better positioned to discover the vendor product differentiators that contribute value to the organization.
AI Transformation Brief – April 2024
This month's briefing covers an AI LLM vulnerability, ChatGPT's boom, AI safety initiatives, Cohere LLM, and Congress banning Microsoft Copilot.
AI Transformation Brief – March 2024
This month's brief highlights recent news from major LLM providers, including OpenAI, Google, AWS, Anthropic, and Mistral.
AI Transformation Brief – February 2024
Featuring AI best practices and insights to enable our members to strategize, plan, develop, deploy, manage, and govern AI-based technologies and solutions.
AI Transformation Brief – January 2024
Featuring AI best practices and insights to enable our members to strategize, plan, develop, deploy, manage, and govern AI-based technologies and solutions.
