Here’s a new episode of The Reddy Rundown, crafted so you don’t have to frantically follow every AI headline wondering what you missed as an exec in 2025 trying to keep up.

I’m Shawn Reddy, CEO at AI Advantage Agency. My job is to weaponize AI systems so growth teams can move faster than their competitors without burning out creatives. Below is the signal beneath the noise—plus the playbook tweaks I’m pushing inside our own stack this week.

1. Visual Authenticity Gets an Upgrade

FLUX.1 Krea drops the "AI look" Black Forest Labs and Krea released an open weight image model that ditches waxy skin, blurry edges, and neon saturation. In side‑by‑side preference tests it goes shot for shot with premium closed models.

Why marketers care: Brand photography no longer needs a six figure shoot. You can fine tune FLUX on your existing asset library and crank out ecommerce shots that match your catalog without tripping the uncanny alarm. Expect conversion lift on PDPs and lower ad fatigue.

2. Compute Moves North

OpenAI plants Stargate Norway A new data center near Narvik will run one hundred thousand Nvidia GPUs on hydropower by late 2026. Waste heat will warm local businesses and Norway joins the OpenAI for Countries program.

Why marketers care: More capacity means faster model rollouts and cheaper inference. Translation: expect shorter render times on video ads and lower API bills for your chat funnels. If you sell in the EU, tout the renewable supply chain in your sustainability messaging.

3. Decks on Autopilot

ChatGPT Agent Mode writes and designs for you Ask the agent to research a niche, draft a two page brief, and build a five slide deck. It crawls sources, cites them, and formats in minutes while you sip coffee.

Why marketers care: Sprint planning and board updates turn into a prompt instead of a week of late nights. Pair this with Loom or Claap for async narration and you have a fully packaged stakeholder update in under an hour.

4. Open Source Muscle

Together AI ships Kimi K2 with one trillion parameters Dedicated endpoints plus quick fine tuning make it a drop in replacement for pricey proprietary coders.

Why marketers care: Kimi chews through product feed cleanup, writes lightweight integrations, and tests tracking snippets before they hit production. Agencies can resell this as a white label dev assistant without sharing client data.

5. Wallet Share Shuffle

Anthropic edges past OpenAI in Menlo Ventures enterprise survey Thirty two percent of respondents lean on Claude while OpenAI slips to twenty five percent. Spend doubled to eight point four billion dollars the past six months and code generation is the breakout use.

Why marketers care: Your vendor choice is becoming a strategic moat. Once teams settle in, two thirds stay put. If you are mid migration, lock scope now or risk missing the refactor window when pricing power swings back to providers.

Tools to Test This Week

FLUX.1 Krea

https://flux.krea.ai

- Fine tune on brand images, generate on demand hero shots for landing pages, then A B test against studio photography

ChatGPT Agent Mode

https://chat.openai.com

- Autogenerate webinar outlines, speaker notes, and follow up email copy from one prompt

Together AI Kimi K2

https://together.ai

- Build a microservice that tags inbound leads by intent and syncs to HubSpot in real time

Vanta

https://vanta.com

- Use the continuous compliance dashboards as social proof in enterprise nurture sequences

One Last Thought The real edge is not the tool, it is the wiring. Map the gap between the shiny demo and the customer touchpoint, then automate ruthlessly. That is how systems eat tactics.

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