The new wave: Agentic AI

Agentic AI represents a generation of increasingly powerful foundation models that may spark a corporate efficiency revolution.

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Vanessa Cook

January 2025

Key takeaways

  • New and disruptive AI capabilities are emerging rapidly – so rapidly, in fact, that the next wave, Agentic AI, is arriving before chatbots and copilots reach version 2.0.
  • Agentic AI represents a new generation of increasingly powerful foundation models that act as operating systems for autonomous, action-taking, digital agents capable of enhanced reasoning and decision-making, as well as increasingly disruptive chatbots and copilots.
  • Over the next decade, these fully autonomous agent and robot fleets may ultimately alter verticals heavily reliant on human capital and spark a corporate efficiency revolution that transforms the global economy.

Read our full analysis for a more in-depth look at these trends.

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