I have been a huge LLM sceptic, but after testing @MistralAI 's #LeChat this week (they get bonus points for sustainability, privacy and are EU based and regulated and not #UStech either), I'm starting to be seriously impressed - they have moved on a lot.
I can see why these tools are taking off for daily life.
@jburnmurdoch has an interesting piece on LLMs in general in the FT today too:

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b18870c7-de35-4325-9a9b-5c038ee3ceba