🗞 OpenAI's Premium Pricing, Google Elevates Search with Gemini 2.0

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI Plans Premium AI Agents with Pricing Up to $20,000 Monthly

• Google Enhances Search with Gemini 2.0 and New Experimental AI Mode

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💰 OpenAI reportedly plans to offer specialized AI "agents" with tiered pricing reaching up to $20,000 per month

• The company is developing various agent products for specific applications, including a $2,000/month "high-income knowledge worker" agent and a $10,000/month software developer agent.

• The premium $20,000/month tier will target "PhD-level research" capabilities, according to sources cited by The Information.

• SoftBank, an OpenAI investor, has reportedly committed to spending $3 billion on these agent products in 2025 alone, as OpenAI seeks to offset its approximately $5 billion in losses from last year.

🔍 Google expands AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0 upgrade and introduces experimental AI Mode for Search

• AI Overviews now reaches over 1 billion users, with Gemini 2.0 powering faster, higher-quality responses for coding, advanced math, and multimodal queries in the U.S.

• New AI Mode experiment combines Gemini 2.0 with Google's information systems to handle complex multi-part questions, using "query fan-out" technique to search multiple subtopics simultaneously.

• Google One AI Premium subscribers will be first to test the experimental AI Mode in Labs, with plans to add more visual responses, richer formatting, and improved web content access.

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