AI can already perform tasks worth $4.5 trillion: WEF | Next in AI | Astha La Vista

Today’s AI news underscores a decisive shift from capability expansion to economic, infrastructural, and agentic scale.

Google pushed the frontier on the product side with enhanced Veo 3.1 video generation in the Gemini API and the launch of Personal Intelligence, signaling a move toward deeply personalized, multimodal AI experiences. In parallel, community benchmarks on Kaggle highlight a growing emphasis on shared evaluation standards, a critical step as models become more agentic and harder to compare.

At the macro level, the World Economic Forum delivered perhaps the most impactful signal: AI is already capable of performing work worth $4.5 trillion, and AI agents alone could represent a $236B market by 2034—but only if governance, trust, and data architecture keep pace. This reinforces a consistent theme across healthcare, supply chains, and enterprise AI: value creation is now constrained less by models and more by data foundations, system design, and institutional readiness.

On infrastructure and economics, OpenAI’s partnership with Cerebras to add 750MW of high-speed compute stands out as a strategic move to reduce latency and support real-time agentic workloads.

Meanwhile, new research highlights rising security and trust challenges—from prompt-injection attack chains to the fragility of anonymized leaderboards—suggesting that scaling AI safely is now as important as scaling it fast.

Complementing this, Anthropic’s Economic Index provides early “economic primitives” for understanding how AI is actually used, marking a transition from anecdote-driven hype to measurement-driven insight.

Bottom line: the AI narrative is maturing. The next phase will be defined by economic impact, agent reliability, data architecture, and governance, not raw model releases.

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