The Month in AI â December 2025
How Will Google Gemini 3 Deliver on Agentic AI Promise?
Google's Gemini 3 marks the third generation of its multimodal AI model since the company began the Gemini era two years ago.
The model has launched across Google Search, the Gemini app and developer platforms including AI Studio, Vertex AI and the newly-announced Google Antigravity development platform.
“It's amazing to think that in just two years, AI has evolved from simply reading text and images to reading the room,” says Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet. “Starting today, we’re shipping Gemini at the scale of Google.”
The Gemini app now serves 650 million monthly users, whilst AI Overviews reaches 2 billion users each month. Google says that 13 million developers have built applications using its generative models, with 70% of Cloud customers using the company's artificial intelligence products.
OpenAI Expands Beyond Microsoft with US$38bn AWS Deal
The continuous advancement of AI technology has created immense demand for computing power.
As frontier model providers push their models to new heights of intelligence, theyâre increasingly turning to diversified infrastructure strategies â and OpenAIâs latest move exemplifies this change.
The AI giant and AWS sealed a US$38bn deal, giving the ChatGPT maker immediate access to AWS cloud infrastructure at scale.
Amazon EC2 UltraServers powered by hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs will now run Open AIâs core AI workloads with the capacity to scale to tens of millions of CPUs.
As a result of the historic restructuring, Open AI is no longer bound to Microsoft as its sole cloud provider, making the seven-year deal with AWS strategically possible.
IFS & Boston Dynamics: Merging Agentic AI with Robotics
Industrial facilities worldwide are grappling with a perfect storm of labour shortages and ageing infrastructure. As the workforce thins and equipment ages, companies are turning to AI to bridge the gap between what needs doing and who’s available to do it.
Now IFS, a provider of industrial AI software, has partnered with Boston Dynamics, the mobile robotics company, to tackle this problem head-on.
Their collaboration brings together Boston Dynamics’ Spot robots with IFS.ai to create what they’re calling an agentic AI system.
In simpler terms, it is AI that doesn’t just analyse data but acts on it independently, making decisions and executing actions without waiting for humans to step in.
Frontier Firm AI: How Nestlé Uses AI to Drive Performance
As AI continues to weave itself into the fabric of global business, companies are pushing to harness its potential not just for automation but to reinvent how work gets done.
Nestlé, the Swiss multinational behind household names like Nescafé and KitKat, has taken a step forward by joining the Frontier Firm AI Initiative.
This collaboration between Harvard University’s Digital Data Design Institute (D^3 Institute) and Microsoft aims to explore how AI can operate alongside humans to drive business performance.
Chris Wright, Nestlé’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), says: “AI isn’t a pilot at Nestlé; it’s already at work from farm to fork. AI helps us get ideas to market faster, optimise recipes, provide trusted nutrition and recipe advice and create content for our digital channels.”
