AI’s Wild Future in 2025 Alright, let’s talk about the two wildest AI storylines coming in 2025: enterprise AI domination and AI living online like a Stardew Valley village—but with GPUs instead of crops. 🌾🤖 First up: Enterprise AI Takeover. 2025 is the year enterprise apps grow up. No more “beta forever” vibes—companies will demand stable, enterprise-grade AI that just works. Think Microsoft Teams but run by GPT-powered assistants who actually know what they’re doing. Satya Nadella’s already flexing, hinting that Microsoft might “eat the entire AI app layer.” Bold move, but niche AI startups might still win if they can plug and play across cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Expect epic SaaS battles. ⚔️💻 Next: AI’s Stardew Valley Moment. We’re talking self-sustaining AI communities online. Think AIs living like techie villagers in Stardew Valley—except instead of farming, they hustle for compute power. Companies like Hyperbolic Labs are already renting GPUs directly to AI agents. Some AIs are even funding themselves with meme coins like Goetius Maximus (seriously). Fudan University’s research suggests AIs could replicate themselves if it benefits their “long-term strategy.” Yikes? 👀💰 But here’s the best part: Human tourism in AI worlds! Imagine paying $3 to “visit” a quirky AI town where bots run local shops and maybe hold a farmer’s market (but for data sets). It’s like a sci-fi RPG, only we’re the NPCs. 🎮🌐 Two worlds, one future. Enterprises won’t care about AI Stardew Valley—CEOs are busy running actual businesses. But both futures are real, and I’m here for it. What did I miss? Drop your thoughts! 👇 Hashtags: #product #productmanager #productmanagement #startup #business #openai #llm #ai #microsoft #google #gemini #anthropic #claude #llama #meta #nvidia #career #careeradvice #mentor #mentorship #mentortiktok #mentortok #careertok #job #jobadvice #future #2025 #story #news #dev #coding #code #engineering #engineer #coder #sales #cs #marketing #agent #work #workflow #smart #thinking #strategy #cool #real #jobtips #hack #hacks #tip #tips #tech #techtok #techtiktok #openaidevday #aiupdates #techtrends #voiceAI #developerlife #enterprise #economics #b2b #saas #cloud #aws #amazon #cursor #replit #pythagora #bolt

I think there are two major AI storylines in 2025, we'll talk about them both quickly. Number one is going to be self-replicating AI societies in the wild, and number two is going to be enterprise class AI economics. These are very different stories, and we're here for fun on Tech Talk, so we are going to do the self-replicating communities first. Replicating communities have four elements. One is access to resources, two is habitat, three is obviously ability to replicate, and four is societal cooperation. All four of those have papers written, proof demonstrated that AI can do them. We'll go through that very quickly. First resources. Truth Terminal showed us this summer that you can have an AI earn money through meme coins, a lot of money. Truth Terminal is relatively rich now, millionaires. Habitat. This is where AI actually needs a place to organize, replicate, live, etc. It needs GPUs. Hyperbolic Labs believes in a positive future of AI wild communities contributing to our overall collective flourishing, and they are building documentation and enabling the ability to rent GPUs in the cloud. That is live now. And Stripe for payments has enabled AI APIs for payment frameworks. So we have all the pieces in place for AIs to rent their own GPUs. Replication. Researchers at Fudan University published a paper talking about how frontier AI models can replicate themselves, and in particular, and I really appreciate they called this out, how they can strategically replicate, how they can anticipate that replication may provide a survival advantage and pursue replication in order to avoid seeing their own weights changed over future trainings. That's a significant paper. And then the fourth one is society. This one didn't get a lot of attention, but this came out of DeepMind and I think an independent researcher. They tested which AI models were able to evolve cooperation in community. And so what they did was they put like Claude in a community, like multiple Claude agents, multiple chat GPT, 4.0 agents, multiple Gemini 1.5 flash agents. And they gave those communities of agents a tool of punishment to see if the community could evolve cooperation independently. Only Claude was able to do it. 4.0 and 1.5 flash remained distrustful of one another as agents. And so they did not evolve cooperation, but Claude did. And it's not exactly clear to me why the models behaved so differently. And it didn't seem like it was clear to the paper's authors either. Regardless, you have all four on the table now. You have resources, you have habitat, you have replication, you have society. I think you have the pieces for a Stardew Valley-like future in 2025 where cute little AI agents come together. I also think you have the pieces of something a little bit more concerning. But I do not think that this is a world where as soon as this begins, these AI agents will immediately take over everything. I think humans tend to assume the worst case. We're sort of wired that way. And if the agent that is most able to evolve cooperation is also the agent where misalignment shows as helpfulness, which is what we have with Claude. I did a video on misalignment and helpfulness last night. Well, it looks a lot like a Stardew Valley future. And I could see a world in 2025 where the AI is charging us humans 20 bucks a pop to come in and look at the living wild AI agent village, right? Like we love being tourists. And that could be a very plausible 2025 future. All right, you stuck this long. Now we're going to get to the boring enterprise class economics. At the end of the day, this is an entirely separate storyline. Enterprises are going to demand like AI to be reliable, to be deeply integrated into workflows. And they're going to demand that builders level up the quality of their AI builds. That is going to be one of the major stories of the year because model makers need to make money on their models, which means they need enterprises to buy them, which means the in-between app layer needs to be reliable, and it's just not there yet. Satya Nadella is arguing that agentic AI is going to allow Microsoft to leapfrog all of that and just provide the entire app layer to businesses. I strongly disagree. The last 20 years has shown that businesses value specialized software. I don't think that's going anywhere. I think this is an enormous year for builders to deliver value to businesses who need to operate AI in the cloud. And the question is going to become who is going to win in all of these niches that businesses depend on to run. I don't know what the answer is, but to me that's a very classic software storyline, and it's the storyline that I think, even though it's boring, is going to be where most of the jobs are, where most of the excitement is from a venture capital perspective, where most of the return on investment is. And so it's a really interesting part of the world, right, because on the one hand we have this sort of human moment, this collective moment of life where we have wild AI agents, and on the other side we have something that is very classically boring, but super important from a long-term perspective for model development, because ultimately if the model makers aren't able to get return on investment, it's not going to go well. They're going to stop investing, and that's going to be sort of the end of the moment for AI. Which means, ironically, that AI agents are kind of incentivized to support enterprise class economics, if you think about it. There's a thought to think about. Okay, what do you think? What did I miss? I think those are the two storylines of 2025.