Speaker 1: Welcome to AI Assembled the TOPAI news for small business.
Speaker 1: I'm Chris daily and each week I bring you the
Speaker 1: most important AI developments that can transform your business. Let's
Speaker 1: dive into this week's top stories.
Speaker 2: Big news for SMB's running tight on infrastructure budgets. Nvidia
Speaker 2: is now offering more than seventy production ready AI models
Speaker 2: for free through their NIMAPI at build dot Nvidia dot com.
Speaker 2: You don't need to buy GPUs, you don't need to
Speaker 2: set up servers, and you don't even need a credit
Speaker 2: card to start. Sign in with a free Nvidia account,
Speaker 2: grab an API key, and call models from Lama, Mistral, Deepseek,
Speaker 2: Microsoft and Nvidia itself using the standard OpenAI compatible Python
Speaker 2: SDK for SMBs. This eliminates the single biggest barrier to
Speaker 2: building custom AI features into your products. Gpu cost, build prototypes,
Speaker 2: test workflow, and validate use cases before spending a dollar
Speaker 2: on infrastructure details at build dot Nvidia dot com slash models.
Speaker 2: The OpenAI and Microsoft partnership got a major rewrite on
Speaker 2: April twenty seventh. Microsoft and OpenAI ended exclusivity, killing the
Speaker 2: famous AGI clause and freeing OpenAI to use Amazon, Google
Speaker 2: and other cloud providers. Microsoft will continue licensing OpenAI's technology
Speaker 2: through twenty thirty two and keeps a revenue share. Why
Speaker 2: this matters for SMBs more competition between cloud providers means
Speaker 2: lower AI inference prices, broader availability, and less vendor lock in.
Speaker 2: If your business runs on Azure today, you can now
Speaker 2: expect OpenAI parity on AWS and Google Cloud two coverage
Speaker 2: at The Verge and CNBC. OpenAI launched GPT five point
Speaker 2: five on April twenty third, calling it their smartest frontier
Speaker 2: model yet for professional work. It's now rolling out to
Speaker 2: chat GPT users with significant gains in coding, research and
Speaker 2: complex data analysis. OpenAI also confirmed they're building a unified
Speaker 2: chat GPT super app that combines chat, GPT, Codex, and
Speaker 2: their AI browser into one workspace for enterprise customers. For SMBs,
Speaker 2: GPT five point five means better automation of multi step
Speaker 2: tasks like financial analysis, contract review, and market research, all
Speaker 2: without upgrading your subscription tier. More at OpenAI dot com.
Speaker 2: OpenAI launched chat GPT for clinicians on April twenty second,
Speaker 2: free for verified US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists.
Speaker 2: It synthesizes medical evidence with cited sources, drafts, clinical notes,
Speaker 2: and answers patient care questions for independent medical practices, urgent
Speaker 2: care clinics, and small specialty groups. This is a free
Speaker 2: Hippa aware AI assistant that can dramatically cut documentation time.
Speaker 2: Apply through the OpenAI Healthcare Academy. Anthropic released claud Opus
Speaker 2: four point seven on April seventeen, with major improvements in coding,
Speaker 2: image handling, and long running autonomous work. They also launched
Speaker 2: claud Design, a new tool for creating prototypes, slides, and
Speaker 2: visual assets in minutes. SMBs can now skip expensive design
Speaker 2: tools for early stage marketing mockups, pitch decks, and product visuals.
Speaker 2: Claud Code also got smarter model picking and stronger permissions
Speaker 2: details Atanthropic dot Com. Salesforce announced on April twenty nine
Speaker 2: that Slack is now the AI work platform for every
Speaker 2: Salesforce customer, available free. The company introduced agent Force operations,
Speaker 2: applying AI agents to approvals, compliance checks, and onboarding directly
Speaker 2: inside Slack. One early customer hit over fifty percent autonomous
Speaker 2: case resolution for any SMB already running on Slack. This
Speaker 2: turns your communication tool into an agent platform without buying anything.
Speaker 2: New coverage at Forbes and Salesforce dot Com. Google made
Speaker 2: a major SMB push at cloud Next on April twenty fourth.
Speaker 2: Gemini is now embedded across Gmail Docs and Drive in
Speaker 2: Google Workspace, giving tens of millions of small business customers immediate,
Speaker 2: low friction AI access. The strategy is clear. AI capabilities
Speaker 2: arrive automatically, no separate purchase or implementation required. If you
Speaker 2: have workspace, you already have Gemini coverage at Silicon Angle.
Speaker 2: Vodafone Business announced a partnership with Google Cloud on April
Speaker 2: twenty second, bundling a gentic AI and so cybersecurity for
Speaker 2: small business customers. This is the trend to watch. Telecom
Speaker 2: and infrastructure providers are becoming AI distribution channels. Expect similar
Speaker 2: bundles from Verizon, AT and T and regional carriers in
Speaker 2: the coming months. Before you buy a standalone AI tool,
Speaker 2: ask your existing telecom and software vendors what's already included
Speaker 2: in your contract? Press release at Google Cloud Press Corner.
Speaker 2: Deloitte's twenty twenty six State of AI report dropped a
Speaker 2: critical warning agentic AI is scaling faster than guardrails. Seventy
Speaker 2: four percent of companies plan to deploy agentic AI within
Speaker 2: two years, but only twenty one percent have a mature
Speaker 2: governance model for autonomous agents. The SMB lesson here is direct.
Speaker 2: Define what your AI agents can and cannot do in
Speaker 2: writing before you deploy them, cover scope, data access, escalation rules,
Speaker 2: and human approval thresholds. Report at Deloitte dot Com Forbes
Speaker 2: flagged a critical SMB risk in early April, twenty five
Speaker 2: percent of US taxpayers used AI chatbots to help prepare
Speaker 2: their twenty twenty six taxes. The problem is hallucinated tax advice,
Speaker 2: creating audit exposure and incorrect filings. The takeaway AI is
Speaker 2: a starting point for tax research, not a replacement for
Speaker 2: a qualified CPA. Document any AI assisted tax decisions, and
Speaker 2: have a professional verify before filing. The same caution applies
Speaker 2: to legal contracts, HR policies and compliance work coverage At
Speaker 2: Forbes your thirty day action plan. First, create a free
Speaker 2: and VIDIA billd account and test one of the seventy
Speaker 2: plus models on a real workflow before paying for an
Speaker 2: AI service. Second, audit your Microsoft three sixty five, Google
Speaker 2: Workspace and Salesforce Slack accounts to find AI you already
Speaker 2: pay for but aren't using. Third, write a one page
Speaker 2: agent governance policy covering scope, data access, and human approval rules. Fourth,
Speaker 2: ask your telecom and software vendors what AI is bundled
Speaker 2: in your existing contracts. Fifth, have a human verify any
Speaker 2: AI generated tax, legal, or financial output before you act
Speaker 2: on it. That's your weekly brief. Ten stories, five actions,
Speaker 2: thirty days.
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