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An in-depth look at a major AI development, its industry impact, how it could affect your career, and a bold future prediction.

Potential Impact

This isn’t about free AI. This is about economic scale. Airtel gives Perplexity reach into every layer of India’s population; urban professionals, small-town students, Tier‑2 founders, side-hustlers, and job-seeking grads. The long tail of users now has access to reasoning models that can:

• Run business research with a one-line prompt

• Draft startup pitch decks and grant proposals

• Automate workflows like content planning, data summaries, or email strategy

• Simulate market scenarios, write contracts, audit spreadsheets, and build AI agents

This turns India from a consumer market to a creation engine. India’s productivity curve could compress 5 years into 12 months. And the best part? The barrier to entry is ₹0.

Implications for People/Careers

This is an extinction-level event for linear careers. Mid-level professionals spending 6 hours building slides, gathering reports, writing briefs, or summarizing PDFs are replaceable—by someone who types a prompt into Perplexity Labs.

You’re not competing with AI. You’re competing with humans augmented by Perplexity—people who’ve already built agentic workflows that deliver in 1 hour what others need 6 to produce. Airtel didn’t just give out AI access—they distributed leverage. If you’re not using this tool daily, your replacement already is.

Resumes won’t matter. Relevance will. If you can’t think, write, and execute with AI, you’ll be outpaced by those who can.

Our Future//Take

Perplexity just catalyzed India’s AI adoption curve in a way no government policy, VC fund, or ed-tech could. It bypassed skill gatekeepers and handed raw firepower to 33.6 crore people. If even 1% of Airtel users integrate Perplexity into their workflows, that’s 3.3 million AI-native operators enough to shift India’s innovation economy from copy-paste to code-create.

We’ll see solo founders building SaaS tools in 3 hours. Tier‑2 students writing research-grade essays overnight. Salespeople who don’t Google, they prompt. Designers building pitch decks with Labs in 10 minutes. This isn’t a feature upgrade—it’s a structural disruption.

You should be building AI-augmented workflows today. Learn prompt chaining. Build decision trees with agents. Use Labs for document automation. Don’t learn AI later. Ship with it now.

Quick summaries of this week's top AI news, their relevance to your career, and our expert opinions.

OpenAI confirms GPT-5 launch in August with unified language and reasoning model

OpenAI is set to release GPT-5 in August a system that fuses GPT-4-tier language fluency with the o3 family’s symbolic reasoning. This isn’t just an upgrade. It’s a convergence. Altman described a moment when GPT-5 delivered an instant, flawless solution to a problem he couldn’t crack, calling it a “here it is moment.” Microsoft had been scaling compute infrastructure since early May, anticipating the bandwidth needed for what insiders now call OpenAI’s most integrated architecture to date. Alongside GPT-5, OpenAI will also release its first open-weight model in over five years. GPT-5 will arrive in multiple configurations standard, mini, and nano making it deployable across everything from enterprise stacks to edge devices.

Why It Matters to You

You’re no longer competing with other humans. You’re about to compete with agents that can write, reason, and decide faster than your best team on their best day. GPT-5 won’t just assist your workflows it will own entire layers of analysis, planning, and creation. No matter your domain, expect the highest-leverage parts of your job to be challenged, redefined, or augmented. This model will quietly embed itself in every vertical inside dashboards, dev tools, operating procedures, and client-facing systems.

Our Take

You need to stop thinking in terms of tools and start thinking in terms of co-intelligence. GPT-5 signals the start of a paradigm where core reasoning and strategic synthesis can be delegated. The real skill now is system design: how you integrate, orchestrate, and elevate decision-making with AI in the loop. This is your window to build asymmetric leverage before GPT-5 becomes the default layer across industries. Treat this moment not as a tech upgrade, but as a strategic shift in how intelligence scales. Miss this, and you won’t just fall behind you’ll become irrelevant.

China’s Z.ai launches GLM-4.5 as world’s strongest open-source model

Zhipu AI has launched GLM-4.5, a 355B parameter model that blends reasoning, code generation, and agentic intelligence into one system. It’s open-weight, openly available, and powerful. GLM-4.5 outperformed o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 4 in agentic benchmarks, reaching a 90% success rate in tool use, key for real-world tasks where models must decide how and when to act. Z.ai also released a lighter version, GLM-4.5-Air, and published their in-house training framework, Slime, allowing others to replicate or customize model training. With only o3 and Grok ahead in overall performance, Zhipu now leads the open-source field.

Why It Matters to You

If you're a founder, builder, or developer, this is a rare chance to access frontier-level performance without a paywall. You can now plug a model with agent-like behavior and deep reasoning directly into your stack—no locked APIs, no black-box dependencies. You get raw access, full weights, and training tools. This gives you speed, freedom, and edge in any product you're building.

Our Take

GLM-4.5 is not just a model, it’s a signal. Chinese labs are closing the frontier gap fast and this one just leapfrogged most closed models in agentic performance. The open-source space just got its first real rival to o3-class intelligence. Now is the time to experiment. Fine-tune it. Fork it. Build your own systems on top of Slime. Open models like this won’t just follow they’ll soon lead. If you’re not embedding them into your roadmap now, you’ll be playing catch-up later. 👉 Do Not Delay Anymore - Master AI Before Its Too Late.

Microsoft reveals which jobs are most at risk of being replaced by AI

Microsoft’s internal analysis reveals that roles relying on digital tools; emails, Excel, writing, admin, and research are at highest risk of being replaced by AI. In the first two quarters of 2025 alone, Microsoft laid off 9000 employees, cutting costs by over $500 million. These weren’t low-performers they included seasoned professionals who simply couldn’t pivot fast enough to AI-first workflows.

Meanwhile, entry-level staff are being rapidly re-skilled, while mid and senior-level employees despite their experience are being let go due to a critical mismatch between legacy skill sets and AI-native expectations. TCS CEO K. Krithivasan put it plainly: “Senior-level staff may not be able to use entry-level skills.” In this new AI-powered economy, hierarchy means nothing. Speed and adaptability mean everything.

Why It Matters to You

If your job happens on a laptop—meetings, analysis, copywriting, planning—you are not safe by default. AI doesn’t care about your experience or years in the field. If you're not learning to use AI, your job won't be reimagined—it’ll be replaced. Mastering AI isn't optional anymore. It’s the only way to stay relevant, regardless of age or title.

Our Take

This is a turning point. The future won’t be defined by who has more experience, it’ll be defined by who can adapt faster. Companies are no longer waiting for people to re-skill slowly. They’re making cuts and betting on leaner, AI-native teams. If you’re not learning to collaborate with AI, automate tasks, or ship faster with fewer hands, you’re already lagging. This isn’t just a tech shift. It’s a full reset on what “employability” means. Your ability to evolve now is your only job security. If you’re still working like it’s 2022, you’re already behind. ⚡AI Mastery for FREE (Sign up Now).

Discover a comprehensive guide to an AI tool, exploring its features, practical use cases, and learning resources to help you master it.

Perplexity Pro

Perplexity Pro is a premium AI research assistant designed for people who want deeper answers, faster insights, and real reasoning across complex questions. With 355B+ parameter models, real-time search, and access to the world’s top AI engines (like GPT-4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4, Sonar, and more), it’s built for those who need more than just answers - intelligence at scale.

⭐ Top Features

• Pro Model Access: Tap into GPT-4.1, Claude 4.0, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4, and Perplexity’s own models for deeper results.

• 300+ Pro Searches Daily: Run hundreds of enhanced, model-powered searches every single day.

• Unlimited File Uploads: Drop in PDFs, docs, audio, video, spreadsheets—get fast, smart summaries and insights.

• AI Image Generation: Use DALL·E 3, Stable Diffusion XL, and others to create visuals from your prompts.

• Code & Data Analysis: Analyze raw data, CSVs, and even live code directly in the chat.

• Labs & Pages: Build shareable reports, pages, or apps using AI agents that combine search, reasoning, and generation.

• One-Click Citations: Every response links back to its source—useful for research, content, or business.

• Export to DOCX, PDF, Markdown: Create polished reports, save them, or share instantly.

🪜 Get Perplexity Pro for FREE

(only for Airtel Users)

Step 1 – Open Airtel Thanks App and log in.

Step 2 – Go to the Rewards section and select Perplexity Pro.

Step 3 – Click on Claim Now and proceed.

Step 4 – Enter your registered email ID and get the OTP.

Step 5 – Enter the OTP to claim the code for Perplexity Pro.

Step 6 – Open the Perplexity app and log in with the same email ID.

Step 7 – Use the OTP and code to activate Perplexity Pro for free for 12 months.

A curated list of noteworthy AI tools and their key details to help you stay ahead in your field.

Vidsembly

Vidsembly is a conversational AI video toolkit that turns presentations, PDFs, and video edits into polished videos just by talking to it. Upload your slides or document, chat with the tool, instruct edits or add narration using plain English or no audio at all and Vidsembly produces a finished video ready to share. Think of it as “Figma for video” but driven by conversation.

Lovart AI

Lovart AI is a creative image generation tool focused on producing aesthetic, romantic, and anime-style visuals. Built for artists, designers, and content creators, it helps generate dreamy illustrations and avatars from simple text prompts. Whether you're designing posters, mood boards, or character art, Lovart gives you a stylistic edge with rich, emotionally expressive outputs.

Aleph by Runway

Aleph is Runway’s experimental text-to-video AI model that generates short video clips directly from prompts. It’s built for creators, filmmakers, and marketers who want to visualize concepts without traditional production. Aleph combines language understanding with motion design to create abstract, artistic, or cinematic video outputs, perfect for storyboarding, mood videos, or visual experiments.

Emergent

Emergent is an AI-powered software builder that lets you launch full-stack apps, websites, SaaS products, or games just by describing your idea in plain English. It writes clean Python code, designs the frontend and backend, sets up authentication, APIs, Stripe payments, databases, and even deploys the app no templates, no drag-and-drop. Whether you're a founder, indie hacker, or product designer, Emergent turns your concepts into working software in minutes without writing a single line of code.

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