Here are April’s top trending topics in artificial intelligence:
Agents and copilots are by far the top trend. If you don’t follow artificial intelligence, this is a really good place to dive in to get ahead. Instead of using AI as a chat interface, an agent can actually do things for you. Feel free to message me if you’d like to learn more about what they are. I’m happy to explain them in layperson terms. I enjoy it!
OpenAI generated the second most headline buzz in April, probably because of their image tool going viral.
Open source taking the third spot is notable because that’s essentially free and makes powerful AI accessible to anyone, anywhere. It’s a contrast to the pay-to-play major models like OpenAI or Anthropic.
Google ranks fourth likely because of their latest Gemini releases. Google is catching up to their potential to train the best artificial intelligence model on the planet. Even though I am addicted to and most familiar with OpenAI and Anthropic, I need to start testing Gemini more. Google also announced the roll-out of generative search results, another driver of headline volume.
It’s notable that there were more robotics headlines than image generation headlines last month. Robots are the biggest, most exciting element of artificial intelligence, but then again I’m a bit of a nerd.
Many models are introducing vision, and that drove multimodality into the top 10. Multimodality is going to sneak up on everyone. If you don’t know it, start Googling, and remember that I keep a weekly list of all of the multimodal headlines.
Looking at month-over-month chatter growth, it’s not surprising that OpenAI and Google were the top two movers, given all of their product announcements.
I pulled reports of which news sources were the most prolific sources of headlines. It struck me that TechCrunch was number two because there’s a lot of buzz right now that TechCrunch is losing staff. If that’s the case, it has not shown up as an impact in the headline volume.
While I despise Twitter (I was user #314 and a very early adopter, btw), it is still the primary source of artificial intelligence breaking news. The top account on Twitter last month was Ethan Mollick. It’s noticeable that even he is talking about trying to find an alternative. I don’t see any signs of tech leaders leaving Twitter, so for now I’m going to continue to check in once a week and pull the headlines using scripts.
I’m excited to put together a quarterly report and even an annual report in the future using all of these metrics. I hope to refine and improve them every week. Never a dull moment.
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