AI tools move from chat to action

This week's news paints a clear pattern. AI tools are becoming less about chatting and more about acting, deciding and integrating into other systems. It is a shift that runs across several of the week's stories and points to where AI is heading in the coming months.

A good example is the new model Gander from Tencent, which can carry on a conversation while it solves tasks in the background, without interrupting the user as often as its competitors. The company TypeSafe goes a step further with the tool Jev, which doesn't write text like ChatGPT at all, but instead helps software make quick decisions. And Krea Agent from the company Krea plans and creates images, video and audio entirely on its own from one short description, aimed at companies in marketing.

AI moves into your everyday programs

The shift can also be seen in AI connecting to tools we already use every day. Google is testing whether the Gemini app on Mac can read, search and send messages from Apple's Messages app. At the same time, Gemini in Google Workspace has been updated so the assistant can both remember the team's regular routines and pull data directly from other work tools, which leads Google to recommend that the IT department check the settings before employees start using it.

Not everything has landed in Denmark yet

There are also conflicting signals in this week's stories, however. OpenAI is shutting down its video model Sora via the API entirely this week, and all user data will be permanently deleted afterward. And although the French company Mistral has just raised massive investments and launched a new AI feature in the Firefox browser, that feature is not coming to Denmark for now. This underlines that many of the week's stories are about what is on the way rather than what Danish users can start using right now.

Overall, the week thus points in two directions at once: AI is becoming more capable of action and is moving into more of the programs we already know, but access to the newest features is still unevenly distributed globally, and some services are shutting down entirely.

It can therefore pay to keep an eye on whether the tools you use at work, such as Gemini or other assistants, start connecting to more systems, and if so, check the settings first rather than just clicking yes to everything. If you are curious, feel free to try out the new features that already exist, but don't expect everything from the US to land in Denmark right away.