OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated in a podcast interview on September 10 that AI is iterating at an extremely rapid pace, evolving from ChatGPT's "question and answer" in 2022 to "deep thinking" by the end of 2024. She anticipates that AI will officially enter the "Agentic" stage by 2025, at which point over a billion people will experience AI's ability to directly execute tasks from a given request. She also noted that AI is substantially boosting corporate profits, citing examples such as Cisco's developer efficiency improving by 3 to 10 times, and 120,000 employees at a top global bank saving several hours per week.