The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis - What the Top AI Users Are Doing Differently
Episode Date: August 25, 2026The gap between average AI users and the most advanced has exploded from 2.6x to 8.3x in just months. NLW breaks down new OpenAI data showing how frontier firms are using agents to move beyond writing... and research into execution, workflow automation, and systems-level work. In the headlines: Meta’s new agent, major AI price cuts, and Nvidia’s investment spree.Executive Agent Leadership - Returns in September -- Learn how to use agents - https://training.besuper.ai/Free Webinar - Agentic Loops for Knowledge Workers - 8/26/26 26pm https://aidailybrief.ai/webinarBrought to you by:KPMG – Research from KPMG and the University of Texas at Austin shows the highest-impact AI users treat AI like a reasoning partner — and those skills can be taught at scale. Learn more at https://kpmg.com/us/SophisticatedHarbor - Invest in the AI ecosystem. https://www.harborcapital.com/aidailyHyperagent - Hire a fleet of always-on agents. New users get $1,000 in inference. hyperagent.com/aidailybriefRackspace Technology- One accountable partner to build, operate and run your full enterprise AI stack https://www.rackspace.com/Section - Section turns AI investment into workforce transformation and ROI - https://www.sectionai.com/Blitzy - Want to accelerate enterprise software development velocity by 5x? https://blitzy.com/AssemblyAI - The best way to build Voice AI apps - https://www.assemblyai.com/briefRobots & Pencils - Cloud-native AI solutions that power results https://robotsandpencils.com/The AI Daily Brief helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Newsletter: https://aidailybrief.beehiiv.com/Interested in sponsoring the show? sponsors@aidailybrief.ai
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There's always been a gap between an average AI user and the most advanced AI users,
but my goodness, has that gap grown.
In recently released research, OpenAI showed that the gap between the most advanced users
and the average AI user had grown from 2.6x back in January to 8.3x by the end of June.
In other words, the most advanced users of AI were using eight times as much AI as were their
average counterparts. The reason, of course, is agents. At the beginning of the year,
agentic use cases became viable and significant,
significantly upgraded the difficulty, complexity, and importance of the work that AI could take on.
The top users have jumped in headfirst, figuring out how to significantly increase the value they
get from their AI usage. The average users, on the other hand, just haven't. But as the power users
use agents to take on increasingly valuable work, that gap is just poised to grow. The AI Daily Brief is a
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and you can find a link to that program from the top of AIDilydief.A.I.D.? According to Roadmap
documents viewed by the information, meta is putting the finishing touches on their consumer
agent ahead of release in the coming weeks. Now, this is something we've been hearing about for a while,
but we're getting more details as the product becomes imminent. Internally, the product is known as
Hatch and sounds like it could be sort of in the Grockbot family of delivering a more streamlined
version of an open-claw-style agent experience. The company is reportedly looking at using Hatch
as part of a new AI agent subscription, which could justify a $200-month price tag for high-usage
accounts. Nata also plans to launch a new platform on WhatsApp to allow better integration for
third-party agents. The platform will reportedly allow multiple agents to coordinate with each other
using WhatsApp messages, again, which is a mirroring some of the functionality, like I said,
of Grockbot.
For what it's worth, this doesn't strike me at all as meta-cribbing off of Grockbot.
I think these are just interaction patterns that we're likely to see more of.
The rollout could begin as soon as this week as a preview to a smaller group of customers.
Finally, in meta-model news, a larger model known as Watermelon is being prepared for an
October launch.
Back in July, Meta's AI CEO, Alexander Wang, told staff that Watermelon had already caught up
with GPT-55 on internal benchmarks.
Now, obviously, the frontier has moved forward substantially with the release of GPT-5-6
and will likely move again by the time October arrives.
So we'll see whether watermelon can actually keep pace or continues to fall in the column
of meta getting closer to the frontier without actually reaching it.
Speaking of Grockbot, one of the barriers for a lot of you guys testing it has been
its extreme premium pricing.
In fact, it wasn't just high pricing, it was kind of confusing pricing.
Initially, users weren't sure if they had to subscribe to both current.
U.S. Ultra and Super GROC heavy, which would be a total of $500 a month to access the service.
But then many, myself included, were able to get it just through Super GROC, which is itself not a cheap
subscription. But it was very clear that this was an intentionally rate-limiting launch to make sure
that things didn't go down, with the hopeful anticipation that prices would be reduced later.
As of this week, GrockBot is included in the $60 a month cursor pro subscription, as well as
the $100 a month SuperGrox subscription.
Speaking of dropping prices, OpenAI is also dropping prices for GPT-56 Seoul.
Accessing Seoul over the API will now cost $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million
output tokens down from $5 and $30 respectively.
Costs for Luna and Terra were already cut late last month.
Many are speculating that this is OpenAI trying to put pressure on Anthropica ahead
of their IPO.
My guess is that for whatever ancillary benefit that might have,
OpenAI is more likely to just be realizing that they've got a new set of challenges
based on what we talk about every week here on this show,
that especially business customers are not just going to use
the most expensive state-of-the-art model for everything anymore
and have to think in more sophisticated ways about their complete model stack.
To the extent that OpenAI has the compute to deliver their frontier models cheaper,
it seems like they've decided it makes sense to do so.
Now, following up on news from yesterday,
Business Insider reported that Hugging Face was courting an acquisition
at a $13 billion valuation,
and according to sources speaking with the information,
part of what might justify their high asking price
is that the company is now generating more than 150 million in annualized revenue
which is up 50% from two months ago.
Now, that number may seem low relative to, for example, the coding agent startups,
but HuggingFace is a company that has specifically not been focused on generating revenue.
97% of users access the platform entirely for free,
including downloading the latest model weights.
The primary revenue drivers for HuggingFace are premium and enterprise-grade accounts,
serving inference in partnerships with hyperscale clouds.
Essentially, up until now, the profit-seeking segments of the platform have existed to
subsidize the free hosting and distribution of open models.
In June, CEO, Clem DeLang said that the number of premium accounts had doubled in the
first half of the year, and based on that, the platform was approaching profitability.
For acquirers, this is very likely not a strict revenue multiple type of conversation.
Subming up the logic, Jess Fields writes,
Hugging Faye should be worth as much as cursor is, way more than $13 billion, maybe three to four
times that. Considering that Hugging Face is the backbone of the open weights challenging frontier
gatekeeping, it occupies a uniquely powerful position in the entire economy. Now, one of the
companies that people are speculating on might be an interesting fit for Hugging Face is, of course,
NVIDIA, if for no other reason they seem to be in the conversation for every acquisition right now.
In fact, with a flurry of reporting around NVIDIA's dealmaking in recent days, some are wondering just
what Jensen is building. Over the past week, we've heard that NVIDIA signed a deal to license technology
and acquire talent from Pooleyside, buy a stake in data labeling company Mercor,
and potentially invest in perplexity at a potentially perplexing $30 billion valuation.
That's to say nothing of other equity investments in neoclouds, land and power deals,
and data center backstops.
Some have started to conceptualize Nvidia as the central bank of compute,
standing behind the AI economy, as well as setting the price of the key resource.
Martin Peers of the information compared Jensen's approach to that of John Malone,
who built up a giant cable TV empire in the 19.
1980s. Another rough comparison point might be Google's approach with their holding company
alphabet in the mid-2010s, when Google restructured the company and created their other
bets division to house moonshot investments in Waymo as well as Google Ventures. The basic idea was to
reinvest their massive earnings from internet advertising into the broader tech ecosystem, and of course
subsequently a lot of those bets have now paid off. Invita's approach is obviously different. Rather
than fanning out across next generation tech, invidia is sticking to the AI ecosystem. Still, they
are building up a formidable portfolio of other bets. During their last earnings call in March,
they reported 42.3 billion invested in private companies, and the number will certainly be higher
when they report later this week. And before we scream up and down shouting circular dealmaking,
one thing that's important to recognize is that part of this is a reflection that
NVIDIA is more or less tapped out when it comes to reinvesting in their own business.
Invidia does not operate their own fabs. So at this stage, growing chip revenue is limited by constraints
across their network of suppliers. In other words, constraints they can't control. By turning their
investments outwards, NVIDIA supports the entire AI economy, and that in turn ensures that their
revenues can stay strong for years to come. At least that appears to be the goal as they get even
more ambitious with their other bets. Still Chips remains the big game, and over on the other side of the
world, Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people for chip smuggling, including one NVIDIA
manager. On Monday, the Taiwanese announced nine indictments in relation to a scheme to smuggle
cutting-edge Blackwell 300 systems into China. In addition to the person who has identified as a
manager in Nvidia's distribution business, two others worked for Nvidia partner, Super Micro.
Earlier this year, a Super Micro co-founder was charged in relation to another smuggling incident.
Both Nvidia and Supermicro have indicated the problems are contained to a few rogue employees
and that they're working with authorities. To give you a sense of the scale of this incident,
the group allegedly ordered 130 Supermicro servers containing Blackwell 300s,
with prosecutors claiming that 74 were delivered to buyers in China, while another
shipment of 56 were stopped by Taiwanese officials. In total, you're talking about less than 10,000
chips, which is not nothing but certainly not enough to build a frontier training cluster.
Lastly, today, an interesting peek under the hood around how much AI won hypers' employees are
using. Business Insider got hold of an internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees self-report
key metrics including salary, bonuses, and AI usage. Now, this is not a story about token maxing,
as BI found no correlation between token burn and financial compensation or promotions at Microsoft.
Both across and within different departments, AI usage was extremely jagged.
In the Azure department, the range of monthly AI spend was $1 to $7,500.
In the cloud and AI division, the top end went all the way up to $15,000,
and in Microsoft customer and partner solutions, there was at least one person who ran up a bill of $28,000.
The median AI usage across all the different departments was a little more clustered together.
other, seven of the eight had median AI usage of right around $150 to $500, with Core AI being the
outlier where their median AI usage was $975. Now, importantly, this is all voluntary self-reporting.
The spreadsheet is maintained to allow staff to voluntarily share compensation figures in an
attempt to promote pay transparency. Only a tiny sliver of Microsoft's 223,000 employees overall
contribute to this chart, just 600 U.S. employees, in fact, only 350 of,
whom reported their AI usage. Still, it gives you a sense of the type of magnitude you're seeing
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One of the best things that's happening right now when it comes to AI narratives at least,
is that we're starting to see a shift away from the accepted without question kind of premise
that AI is obviously going to be job destroying. Now, regular listeners will know my position on
this is pretty clear. I am not Polyanish at all about the potential scale of challenge when it comes
to the transition between two totally different work paradigms. You are inevitably going to see
certain types of roles that this new category of technology will obviate the need for. That will
cause real personal disruption that society would do well to be ready to support the people affected.
The idea, however, that there was going to be some radical and rapid jobs apocalypse was never
accurate. On this point, Sam Alman has increasingly gone out of his way to not just have changed
his position, but to explain that he believes that he was wrong and to try to explain why he
thinks he was wrong. In a recent podcast interview, he said, I thought when we got to GPT4, which was back in
23 that very quickly after that there was going to be much more disruption. Software business is up for grabs
right away than it turned out to be. I think I was wrong about a few things, but one in terms of the
speed. The economy just has so much inertia. People keep doing the same things, buying from the same
company, wanting to use their tools the same way. I think this is actually a positive in many ways,
and it's going to make this big transition go smoother and slower. I'm grateful for it,
but it means we've all been too ambitious on timelines. Even with this incredible technology,
society and the economy will adapt more slowly.
In other words, as I like to think about it,
who needs a pause AI movement when you've got corporations?
What's interesting, though, is that Sam actually went farther
and recognized that while, yes, institutional inertia is perhaps the biggest driver of the slowdown
and the rollout, that that inertia happens on an individual level,
even with really advanced users as well.
In that same interview, he said,
the thing that feels most psychologically inconsistent about myself is that I have for 20 years
been using computers the same way. I now have a magic thing called Codex. So to you, so does everybody.
That means I should completely be using my computer in a different way. I should not be clicking
around, pasting from one messaging app to another. I should not be scrolling mindlessly through my
emails trying to figure out which one is the least painful to open. I should not be keeping a to do
list and doing these wrote computer tasks the same way I have for so long. And yet there's something
in my mind that is encoded that doing this kind of stuff is what it means to work and be productive.
If you asked me, I would never say I like doing it that way. In fact, I think, I think
say the opposite and I'd mean it. But by revealed preference, I have a better way to do it now,
and I still do it the old way. It makes no sense other than I must secretly like it or feel good
about it. I don't think it's even some secret satisfaction, though. I just think we all get stuck in
the patterns of how we've always done things. We build intellectual mind muscle memory,
and the thought of undoing that to go build a new type of mind muscle that is much less comfortable
often appears exhausting when we know exactly how long it will take us to do it the old way,
and we could just get that done right now and move on to whatever it is we actually want to be doing.
Which is why it's so important to spend time looking at how people who have broken out of their mind-muscle memory are doing things.
And interestingly, a couple of weeks ago, OpenAI published some research about exactly that.
Now, I don't know why they weren't screaming about this article from the rafters,
but if I miss something that's putting numbers around how frontier firms are doing things differently than others,
you know that thing was not promoted nearly widely enough.
In any case, I only noticed the data when A16Z reposted it as part of their charts of the week.
The chart that grabbed mine and many others' attention was this one showing Codex user growth by enterprise job title.
It was indexed back to the beginning of February of this year, and in that time, while every role has gone up, it is the non-technical roles that have grown the fastest.
Now, of course, part of this is because they had a lower starting point.
But to give you some examples, while use among engineering and technical,
technical practitioners is up 5x in that time. Use in finance and accounting is up 20x. In marketing and
communications, it's 26x. In people and recruiting and separately sales and account management,
it's up 41x. And in legal, codex usage is 108x from where it was back in February.
Joking, but not really joking about the lawyer side of this. Spellbook Scott Stevenson quoted Jack
Newton saying, LLMs are for lawyers, what spreadsheets were for accountants. But that was hardly the only
data that was available here. The big through line signal in this piece, which was called enterprise
signals, what frontier firms are doing differently, was two parts. First, more work is being delegated
to agents. And second, because of that, there is a compounding effect where the firms that are
farthest along are getting farther away from the firms that are behind. In other words,
agenic use compounds their lead. And importantly, this is not a model question. It's about, as OpenAI puts it,
how they put those models to work, moving from assistance to delegation,
giving agents the context and tools to complete complex tasks,
and accelerating Agentic AI beyond software development.
So let's talk about a few of the most interesting numbers.
A year ago at this time in August of 25, when GPT5 was announced,
the balance between chat GPT usage and agentic usage,
as measured by the output tokens produced by the enterprise interacting with the chat
GPT ecosystem in any way,
was basically 100% chat GPT tokens and,
not agentic tokens. Between October and February, the first glimpses of the actual agentic era
started to be seen. Codex becomes generally available in October, and a low single-digit percentage
of enterprise output tokens are now in that agentic category. In December, GPT 5.2 comes out, and we see a bit
of a bump that extends up into the beginning of February. In February, when the Codex app launches
for Mac OS, the percentage balance between chat GPT and agentic usage, again, as measured by enterprise
output tokens was 87% chat GPT to 13% agentic. But then from there, the agentic use cases just take
off. We get to March. Codex is released for Windows and GPT 5.4 comes out, and we're now at 73% chat
GPT, 27% agentic. Towards the end of April, just a month later, GBT55 comes out and we get the
flippening, where all of a sudden agentic output tokens are representing 53%. And by June, when this data
set ends were down to 36% while agentic tokens were up to 64%.
Now keep in mind, this does not mean that all of a sudden, 64% of the times that someone
sits down to use an open AI product at work, they're doing something with agents.
Instead, what this means is that if you use the amount of output tokens that the aggregate set
of prompts lead to, in other words, if you use output tokens as a proxy for the amount or volume
of work being done, the preponderance of it, almost two-thirds by the time these statistics
were captured, is now being agentic work. So point one was that agentic uses up and point two
was that the gap between the leading AI users, i.e. the ones using agents the most and the best,
and the general enterprise users, was getting wider. OpenAI defines frontier firms as those
in the top 10% of usage in a month, as measured by output tokens per active user, with the average
firm to be between the 45th and 55th percentile. And providing the best numerical advice,
you can see that going back to about April of 2025, throughout the year of 2025, the gap in
output tokens per active user between the typical firm and the frontier firm was only about
2x, as in the average user at a frontier firm, used about twice as many output tokens as an
average user at an average firm. The gap started to widen around October, and in January stood at
2.6x. The gap now has absolutely exploded, with the distance between the typical firm and the
frontier firm now at 8.3x. Overall, while the average firm is using about twice as many tokens as they did a
year and a half ago, frontier firms are using 17 times as many tokens as they were a year and a half
ago. Now, part of this is, of course, that they're just using agents more, but part of it is that they're
also better at using agents. To measure this, OpenAI looked at the number of weekly active users,
who use either plugins or skills.
Plugins are, of course, capability sets
that can connect to other applications or data,
whereas skills are reusable instructions
that can help with common workflows.
At typical firms, about 9% of weekly active users
are using plugins,
and only about 3% are using skills.
At frontier firms, which is, again, the top 10% of enterprises,
19% are using skills, and 21% are using plugins.
Which is not to say that those frontier firms
have topped out in terms of their usage.
By way of comparison, at OpenAI right now,
93% of their employees are using skills and 95% are using plugins.
But still, coming back to the gap between employees at frontier and typical firms,
you're talking about two and a third times as many people using plugins
and more than six times as many people using skills.
And in terms of what work they're deploying this towards,
as we saw from that chart that kicked off this show,
the fastest growth in these agentic use cases
is coming from knowledge workers that are outside software and engineering functions.
Open AI diagnoses it like this. Software, they said, moved first for a reason. Codebases give agents
clear context, tests make outputs easier to verify, and progress in coding helps accelerate AI research
and development. In contrast, they say, progress in general knowledge work has been slower because
many tasks provide limited context, can be difficult to specify, and lack clear criteria for
verifying the result. But continued scaling, advances in reinforcement learning and targeted efforts
to improve performance on evaluations such as GDPVal are bringing more.
real-world tasks, tools, and work environments within the reach of frontier models. As a result,
agentic AI has increasingly found product market fit with general knowledge workers since the beginning of
the year. Look, it is great that Open AI is working hard to have their models and harnesses work
better for knowledge work, but stuff that Open AI has done is not the reason that agentic use
has grown among these non-software engineering knowledge workers. The reason that agentic use has
grown among general knowledge workers is that we've started to figure out the patterns that actually
allow agents to thrive in our own contexts. So what are those patterns? From this I'm combining
the research from OpenAI about the types of use cases both in chat and agentic across departments,
plus our own experience at both AIDB and at Superintelligent, to provide a little bit of a picture
of what that more advanced agentic use actually looks like in practice. You can see in OpenAI's
chart that there's a massive shift in the type of work when you move between chat and agentic. And to be
clear, this doesn't mean that the type of work being done with chat is not valuable.
Support for writing and communications, knowledge retrieval, and search.
Those things do bring a lot of value.
But Agenic takes a lot of those individual workflows and instead moves them into systems
level work that can impact more than just the individual.
You can almost think about a use case ladder.
At the base is generation.
Think drafting an email, a report, an Excel formula, things like that.
On the second rung is synthesis, being able to take disparate data sources and
produce something more complete that is informed by them. Moving farther up the ladder, we have
execution, where the AI is actually being tasked with interacting with existing systems and doing things
within them, which of course is closely tied to the next level of maintenance, where agents are tasked
not just with executing something specific, but maintaining a system over time. So for example,
if you're looking in legal, the context that people are drawing on is of course things like contracts,
policy documents, precedent, as well as any relevant counterparty history. The types of agentic work
patterns you're going to see are around things like comparing terms, flagging deviations, drafting
red lines, recording decisions, monitoring commitments. Humans will continue to negotiate the material
terms to set risk tolerance, to approve exceptions and final language. So basically, you have a
division of labor where the agent is handling coverage and coordination, while people still own
risk judgment and accountability. If you go back and look at the difference in the
categories of work in the legal field that are being done via chat or agentic, writing makes up a full
57% of legal work in chat, followed closely by knowledge retrieval at 20.5%. System operation barely
registers at 0.2%. Now, you move over into Agentic, and you've got writing down to 16.2%, knowledge
retrieval down to 8.3%, and a whole bunch of new categories coming online in a huge way. Classification
and extraction jumps to 4.6%. System operations jumps to 17.7%.
percent, workflow automation jumps to 7.7 percent, and coding, actually building applications,
even though these aren't the software engineers, jumps to 32.9%. And you see this pattern in
basically every other department as well. Writing a knowledge retrieval with the side of education
and guidance remain in the preponderance of chat tokens, while Agentic gets into deeper systems
integration work. Now, one thing that I think is going to supercharge this to the next level
is the emergence of multiplayer and team AI as opposed to just individual AI. I think that even
though you are seeing these frontier users move more into these higher order tiers of execution
and maintenance of systems, most of these agents are still operating within individual silos.
And my belief is that where a lot of the next generation of gains are going to come from
is actually at the intersection of different teams. Ultimately, none of this is all that
surprising. It has been clear for a while that 2026 was the year that agents became real.
But boy, the numbers do not lie. And while even the frontier firms are still just barely beginning
to figure it out, the fact that they seem to be racing ahead and putting more and more distance
between themselves and the average firms should be a wake-up call for those who aren't deploying
agentic uses at scale yet. This is probably where I should insert a shill for our training
programs over at Super Intelligent, but if you are a regular listener, you will already know that
those are there and available for you. In any case, this is great stuff from OpenAI. Please keep doing this
and please promote it more heavily next time. And of course, for you guys, appreciate you listening
as always. Until next time, peace.
