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⚡ Microsoft’s 7 Biggest AI Trends in 2026
Week Chaos: Gemi3 → GPT5.2 → Grok4.20
Wendy
December 08, 2025
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OpenAI’s reality check: a small group is pulling far ahead while teams barely touch the tools. A 6‑person startup beat Google and OpenAI on an AGI reasoning test…
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AI INSIGHTS
OpenAI just dropped its first-ever State of Enterprise AI report, and in some cases, it’s a wake-up call. The gap between “frontier” AI users and everyone else is massive:
800M weekly users now on ChatGPT
Enterprise usage is up 9× year-over-year
Weekly messages = 8× increase
Reasoning token usage = 320× spike since last November (no surprise, “thinking” only became a feature ~16 months ago)
So what’s the productivity payoff? A lot, like a full extra workday a week. Average AI user saves 40–60 mins per day. Heavy users save 10+ hours/week.
And 75% of workers say they’re doing things they couldn’t do before like coding, data work, and custom automation. Even non-technical users are coding now (like me 😅)
So what are frontier users doing differently? They work through it. They send 6× more messages per employee. Top analysts use the AI tooling 16× more than peers. It’s deliberate, high-leverage interaction.
But here’s the wild part… A huge chunk of companies still haven’t touched basic features, like why? Companies in the “frontier” group are seeing 1.7× faster revenue growth & 3.6× higher shareholder returns!
If you're not actively embedding AI into your workflows, you're already behind. Frontier firms are racing ahead, and every month that gap gets harder to close.
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TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
🗣️ We found a thread with 15K bookmarks that claims to be "better than Duolingo." After trying these 6 prompts, we finally figured our why. Bookmark or try them here.
🔮 2026 is almost there, and if you're wondering what's coming next, Microsoft just outlined 7 biggest trends shaping 2026. Here’s the full 7 rundown of what to expect.
📝 Another goldmine today, devs shared 25 pre-built Claude skills (similar to Custom GPTs) that you can copy and make them yours. Saved this one instantly for later.
🚨 OpenAI's "code red" led to a panic-released GPT-5.2 (this week?). And now Elon's teasing Grok 4.20 in few weeks. Things are quite interesting now. Here’s his post.
📢 Google confirmed that ads will hit Gemini in 2026. We all knew this was inevitable. Honestly it's a win-win for both cause we can't enjoy the ad-free era forever.
👓 Google’s new AI glasses will come in 2026 with Gemini built in. We've been so hyped with Google's products so it might beat Meta's Ray-Bans? See it first here.
💰 Big AI Investment: SoftBank & Nvidia may invest over $1B in Skild AI, up 3× from $4.7B in early 2025. Skild AI builds robot brains, using human-like AI.
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AI BREAKTHROUGH
A six-person startup named Poetiq just beat Google DeepMind and OpenAI on one of the world’s hardest reasoning benchmarks, ARC‑AGI‑2. And they did it without training a giant new model.
They used Google’s own Gemini 3 Pro, added a smart self-improving system on top, and still beat everyone. Poetiq’s result:
54% accuracy on ARC‑AGI‑2 (first system ever to cross 50%)
$30 per task using Gemini 3 Pro as the base vs Google Deep Think: 45% accuracy, $77 per task
Poetiq didn’t try to compete on training size or raw parameters. Instead, they built a refinement layer, a system that:
Picks the right base model
Guides and improves its output
Verifies quality with a self-auditing mechanism
Their system can adapt to any new model within hours with no retraining needed. It’s open-source, so others can build on it. It’s like winning the Formula 1 with a rented engine.
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