From Chatbot to Coworker - by Jordamøn - AI Central

 Something shifted last week, and it wasn’t subtle. Within the span of a few days, OpenAI launched an enterprise platform built around the concept of “AI coworkers,” Anthropic released a model explicitly designed for what it calls “vibe working,” and Google rolled out features that let its AI read your email, study your photos, and use what it learns to reshape your search results. Each announcement, taken alone, might register as an incremental product update. Taken together, they mark a distinct transition in what these tools are actually asking of their users, and what they’re offering in return.

The common thread is this: AI is crossing from conversational to operational. The chatbot era, in which one typed a question and received an answer, is giving way to something more intimate and more ambitious. The new tools don’t just respond. They remember, they act, they learn from the context of your work and your life, and they do so with increasing autonomy. For anyone paying attention to the trajectory of these products, the last week offered the clearest picture yet of where all three major AI companies think the future lies.....

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....For now, the honest assessment is that these products are impressive in their ambition and uneven in their execution. Frontier is available to a handful of Fortune 500 companies. Opus 4.6 is genuinely more capable than its predecessors but still operates within the familiar limitations of large language models. Google’s Personal Intelligence acknowledges, right in its own documentation, that it “might incorrectly make connections between unrelated topics or not fully understand the context.” These are not finished products. They are bets, placed simultaneously by the three companies best positioned to make them, on a future in which AI is less like a search engine and more like a colleague.

Whether that future arrives in months or years, the direction is no longer in question.