Agentic AI Takes Center Stage – Predict 2025
Nick Patience, vice president and practice lead for artificial intelligence software and tools at Futurum, shares his 2025 predictions for the AI space: Agentic AI taking center stage, the successful IPO of one AI-focused company, agents and reasoning models, and more.
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Transcript
Hi, I am Nick, patience, vice President and AI practice Lead at rum. And these are some of my predictions for AI. In 2025, argentic AI will take center stage.
This is the evolution of the the generative AI revolution that started in late 2022. And now we're getting to the stage where AI enabled agents are gonna be able to take decisions, they're gonna be able to interact with other agents, they're gonna be able to interact with other kinds of software applications and interact with humans. And this is the, the, the, the evolution of this.
So we actually get to the stage where AI can execute business processes and that opens up all sorts of new opportunities. This year we're gonna see, uh, a successful IPO of one of the AI focused companies. The IPO market has been, um, fairly fallow in the last, um, few years.
There's been a lot of venture capital invested, obviously, and that also need, needs to go somewhere. And we we're expecting the IPO market to open up a little bit in 2025. We're also expecting one of the smaller large language model companies to get acquired.
OpenAI is obviously stormed ahead here and, and is the dominant player. Um, but there's quite a few others that are fairly small in comparison to OpenAI, but might make attractive acquisition targets probably for application software vendors, but maybe also for infrastructure, uh, vendors as well. Agents and reasoning models, these reasoning models where they kind of act of like a human with chain of thought reasoning and show they're working and show how they're actually coming to a decision.
We think both those kind of trends, A, they're related, and B, they're gonna drive an increase in need for inference infrastructure so you have more power at the inference stage because of this, this chain of thought, uh, process going on. This is not as just a simple putting in a a simple question into a an LLM in text and getting the answer back or, or anything like that. This is gonna require more investment, we think.
So those are some of my predictions for 2025. Thanks for taking the time to listen, and if you wanna know more about these predictions and all of our predictions, you can check out the FUTURUM research ebook, which is available now.
