Rate of change for AI is going to accelerate further in 2025. As CIOs, CTOs and IT Leaders prepare for the future, many of them are overwhelmed by the incredible speed of technology innovations, specifically in AI.
Top strategic technology AI trends that technology leaders will need to focus on in 2025.
- Agentic AI
- AI Governance Platforms
- Advanced reasoning models – moving towards AGI
Let’s explore each one of them
Agentic AI:
Organizations are always looking to achieve higher productivity but are constrained by resources in terms of manpower & costs. Automation and RPA solved that problem to an extent but were confined to fixed set of rules and instructions.
Agentic AI will enable a digital workforce that autonomously make plans and takes actions, almost acting as an extension of the workforce but one that doesn’t need any holidays and other employee benefits.
Agentic AI systems will be able to analyse vast array of data, learn from the context and take actions and make decisions through self-learning. It can be completely autonomous or may be able augment human worker and act as a skilled teammate.
As per Gartner research, by 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024 and at least 15% of day-to-day work decisions will be made autonomously through agentic AI, up from zero percent in 2024.
AI Governance Platforms:
As organizations start to scale AI, they are concerned regarding the lack of governance. While initial efforts with AI strategy, AI principles and AI governance groups/committee puts your organization ahead of many who are simply playing with AI, but, these won’t be sufficient without a proper AI governance platform.
AI governance platforms oversee and manage AI systems by incorporating responsible AI practices. They allow organizations to showcase their commitment to ethical and responsible AI practices, strengthening their brand reputation and complying them to regulations such as EU AI act or others as applicable.
By 2028, enterprises using AI governance platforms will achieve 30% higher customer trust ratings and 25% better regulatory compliance scores than their competitors and will experience 40% fewer AI-related ethical incidents compared to those without such systems.
Advanced reasoning models:
We have already seen that AI systems have evolve beyond text-only capabilities to process multiple forms of data including images, audio, and video simultaneously.
With introduction of Open AI’s o-series models which are more sophisticated with advanced reasoning capabilities, featuring chain-of-thought processing and enhanced problem-solving abilities similar to human thinking.
While true artificial general intelligence (AGI) is still a distant future, the progress in the advance models are certainly taking us on a path towards it albeit incremental for now.
I would highly recommend to adopt and implement an AI governance platform before walking down the path of Agentic AI and Advanced reasoning models.
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