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Enterprise AI took a turn toward smarter automation and tighter fiscal discipline yesterday, with several signals pointing to how teams will build in 2025. Here are today’s updates:
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OpenAI fast-tracks 'Garlic' model
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Anthropic CEO warns AI rivals of bubble risks from reckless spending.
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OpenAI’s ‘Garlic’ Model
OpenAI has gone into full acceleration mode after Gemini 3’s benchmark jump. They’re now fast-tracking a new reasoning model called Garlic, which early internal runs show outperforming both Gemini 3 and Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 on coding and logic tasks while staying small enough to deploy cheaply. The interesting part is the architecture: it fixes earlier pretraining gaps and squeezes large-model depth into something far lighter.
This points to cheaper, smarter models coming sooner than expected. If Garlic ships early next year, it could lower inference costs and reshape how companies think about automation and vendor choice.
Gemini 3 Deep Think Rollout
Google has started rolling out Deep Think mode for Gemini 3, built for harder reasoning tasks. It leads several top benchmarks and handles advanced math, R&D-style logic, and multi-step scientific work. This version is hitting Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and enterprise products next.
If your teams rely on tight reasoning (finance, engineering, analytics) this gives Google a stronger claim as a core model provider for 2025 architectures.
Anthropic CEO on the AI Bubble
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said parts of the AI industry are spending too fast and betting on data centers that may not be ready in time. He contrasted this with Anthropic’s slower, enterprise-focused approach and warned about a gap between model ambitions and actual infrastructure capacity.
For enterprises, this is more of a signal than a product update. It’s a reminder to choose vendors with stable plans and realistic timelines, especially for long-term AI programs.
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When you want to quickly spot where your team is spending too much manual time, and identify tasks that can be automated immediately.
u are an operations optimization consultant.
I’ll share what my team does daily or weekly.
Identify:
Tasks consuming the most time or effort
Which can be automated or simplified using AI or tools
Suggested tools or methods (e.g., ChatGPT, Zapier, Sheets AI, CRM automations)
Estimated time saved per week
Output as a table:
| Task | Automation Suggestion | Tool / Method | Time Saved (est.) |Correct Input Style:
Manually tag leads from webinars in HubSpot.
Write follow-up emails to attendees.
Prepare campaign performance decks.
Track ad spend and ROI in spreadsheets.”
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