6 productivity-boosting AI product releases on the horizon

New AI products are coming faster than most people can keep up. Within the last few months, we’ve seen GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, and Grok 4. More recently, we've seen major updates to ChatGPT rivals like DeepSeek and Claude Sonnet. With all of the heavy hitters dropping new tools, you may be wondering what else is around the corner. 

As it turns out, a lot. The big companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft perpetually have new models and tools in production. Upstart AI companies are also hard at work. Each release is more complex than the last, and they will no doubt help productivity at least a little bit. 

So, if you’re interested in what’s coming down the pipes in the somewhat near future, here are some AI productivity tools you might find useful that should be out sometime soon. 

Google Veo 3 Fast

Google recently announced a couple of big things with its Veo 3 AI video generation model. For the regular Veo 3, it now has the ability to generate vertical videos like you see on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. In addition, users can also use Veo 3 to turn still images into videos in the Gemini app as well as the Photos app. These changes have already begun rolling out. 

Veo 3 Fast was also announced. This model is a scaled-down version of Veo 3 that offers faster video generation at lower resolutions. In addition, it can create videos with sound, which is something they could not previously do, according to TechCrunch. Veo 3 Fast is rolling out in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand at the moment with a wider release planned in the future. 

Zoom AI Companion 3.0

Zoom announced the latest version of its AI Companion in mid-September. The new model makes several improvements over the prior model. The buzziest tool for AI models in 2025 is the AI agent, which is included in Zoom AI Companion 3.0. Per Zoom, the agentic AI will “help users deliver higher quality work by harnessing insights from their conversations and get more work done more efficiently.”

Some of the new features include note-taking capabilities, the ability to generate summaries based on things the user has written, and a retrieval function that lets users search across their workplace to find information. This integrates with Google and Microsoft as well, giving Zoom’s AI companion plenty of information to chew on. These new features will begin rolling out in September 2025 and continue over the next few months, so keep an eye out if you’re a Zoom AI fan. 

Microsoft AI in Notepad

The venerable Notepad has remained largely unchanged for almost its entire life, but that is about to change. Microsoft announced that it was stuffing some Copilot intelligence into Notepad. The features are fairly predictable here and include various AI-powered writing tools to help the user write better. That includes a Rewrite feature that improves clarity and adjusts tone along with a summarize function that gives you an overview of what a Notepad file contains. 

It can also write for you. Microsoft says you’ll be able to give the AI a prompt and it’ll write out content “quickly and effortlessly.” When this fully launches, it’ll be a global release with the only a few countries being left out. AI in Notepad is currently available to Windows Insiders users, which means it’s only a matter of time before it comes out. 

Notion 3.0

Notion bills itself as an “all-in one” AI that can do everything from take notes, search the Internet, conduct research, and even help you build a website. The company announced Notion 3.0 on September 18, and it’s a pretty big release. Much like Zoom AI Companion 3.0, the name of the game with this release is the AI agent. 

The big draw of the new release is that Notion’s AI agents can do anything for you that you could natively do in Notion before the AI agents released. Per Notion, these new agents are capable of “over 20 minutes of multi-step actions with a state-of-the-art memory system.” That’s pretty impressive. Users will be able to build multiple agents as well, so you can have an army of agents doing things for you, which can certainly make work easier. 

OpenAI Browser

One of the more anticipated releases coming eventually is OpenAI’s AI-powered web browser. Rumors have been circulating about this browser for months, but no official release date has been announced as of this writing. The browser would go toe-to-toe with juggernauts in the space like Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, which all already have AI features like Gemini in Chrome and Apple Intelligence baked in. 

Not much is known just yet, but there are some obvious factoids that we can glean. OpenAI will almost certainly pack a ton of AI into it with native support for ChatGPT. The AI giant already has its own search engine, which will also likely make an appearance in the browser. ChatGPT has somewhere between 500 million and 700 million active users, so an AI-powered browser may cause quite a stir. 

Grok 5, Gemini 3, and GPT-6

These releases are still quite far away, but there is already information about each one. Grok 5 will apparently go into training in late 2025 with a 2026 release date. Elon Musk is already bragging about Grok 5, stating that it has a chance to equal human intelligence. It probably won’t, but it’s definitely something to think about. 

For GPT-6, Sam Altman has already talked about the upcoming model a little bit. He says that GPT-6 will do a better job of adapting to the user, likely to avoid the same backlash that GPT-5 received on launch. Gemini 3 is definitely on the way, but there aren’t many concrete details about it right now as Google hasn’t announced anything yet. All three are expected to define how good AI can be in 2026. 

And even more...

Above is just a taste of what’s to come. There are so many AI startups popping up left and right that it’s legitimately difficult to keep track of them all. The big companies are still always working on something new, and we’re never more than a year away from the next big AI model from any of the big companies. Each of them should push the boundaries further and help increase productivity in their own way. 

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.