Is 2025 the year of AI agents?

Welcome to What's Up Wednesday!

I just wrapped up listening to a fascinating 2-hour chat with CrewAI's founder João (Joe) Moura on Alex Volkov's ThursdAI (my go-to podcast for BS-free AI updates - no "AI WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD" drama here!).

Let me save you 2 hours and share the top 3 juicy bits about where AI agents are headed:

🏆 2024's LLM Champions:

• The People's Choice: OpenAI's GPT-4o mini (Fast, versatile, won't break the bank)
• The Coder's Darling: Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5 (Making developers swoon everywhere) 🚀

What's cooking for 2025

Remember when your smartphone couldn't order pizza? We're at that moment with AI agents! Big players aren't waiting around:

• Stripe's Agent Toolkit: Your AI can now handle money! (Yes, your digital friend can now earn and make payments for you - what could go wrong? 😉)
• Browserbase: Imagine websites built for AI agents. No more fancy scroll animations - just pure, digestible content. It's like switching from a theme park to a library for our AI friends.
• Exa: Google for AI agents. Exa serves our agents more concise search results because let's face it- Google is busy selling you ads when you're searching!🧠

About Those Fancy "Reasoning Models"

Despite the buzz (looking at you, o3 and ARC prize 👀), they're like that super-smart friend who takes forever to make a decision (sounds like me without the super-smart part 😂). Too slow for real-world AI agent tasks... for now!

💭 Crystal Ball Time

What's your bet on AI agents in 2025? Will they be booking your haircuts or still struggling to understand why we humans love cat videos?

Drop your wildest predictions below! 🎯