By Staff Reporter
Publication Date: 2025-11-26 22:30:00
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There is a lot of noise and a lot of wild claims surrounding the discussion of AI for business, but definitions are important.
Valantis Vais, General Manager – Product and Product Marketing at MYOB, prefers to divide AI into three practical categories.
First and foremost is machine learning or traditional AI, for example a pick-and-place robot on a line that can identify an object, or object recognition for documents, based on training a system using many examples.
The second theme of the current wave is large language models (LLMs), which underlie products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and others, opening up new possibilities for searching, summarizing, and interacting with data.
The next wave is agent AI, says Vais, based on LLMs, although “What they can actually do is provide greater end-to-end automation. So they’re able to actually complete a task from start to finish.”
Vais believes agent AI will be useful in scenarios like…