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These Are the Jobs People Actually WANT AI to Automate
13 Oct 2025
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, these are the roles that people actually want AI to automate. Before then in the headlines, Google is now processing 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick notes before we dive in.
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We kick off today with an update from Google, where that company is now pumping out 1.3 quadrillion tokens a month to serve their AI products. You might remember back earlier this year, when between May and July, we saw this massive inflection point where Google went from processing 480 trillion tokens in May all the way up to 980 trillion towards the end of July.
That was monthly tokens, by the way. So about 104% growth in just a couple of months. My speculation was this was due in part to the expansion of actual deployment use cases, particularly around AI coding, that was just consuming a huge amount of additional tokens. But whatever was driving it, it's clear that usage of AI is going up, up, up.
Now, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis recognized that at this scale, the numbers are frankly getting a little bit difficult to comprehend. A quadrillion has 15 zeros in it. And to reframe that 1.3 quadrillion number, he says that's 500 million tokens a second or 1.8 trillion tokens an hour. Now, this is not the only indication that Gemini is undergoing some serious growth right now.
The latest edition of SimilarWeb's traffic report showed that Gemini was by far and away the big leader for AI platform growth in September. The Gemini web app saw a 46% jump in traffic, which was more than triple the increase for Perplexity, which was in second place with a little over a 14% jump. That report, by the way, also noted that DeepSeq notched its first month of growth since February.
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