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Business Wire
19 hours ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Gartner Hype Cycle Identifies Top AI Innovations in 2025
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI agents and AI-ready data are the two fastest advancing technologies on the 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company. These technologies are experiencing heightened interest this year, accompanied by ambitious projections and speculative promises, placing them at the Peak of Inflated Expectations. Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. Gartner Hype Cycle methodology gives a view of how a technology or application will evolve over time, providing a sound source of insight to manage its deployment within the context of specific business goals. 'With AI investment remaining strong this year, a sharper emphasis is being placed on using AI for operational scalability and real-time intelligence,' said Haritha Khandabattu, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner. 'This has led to a gradual pivot from generative AI (GenAI) as a central focus, toward the foundational enablers that support sustainable AI delivery, such as AI-ready data and AI agents.' Among the AI innovations Gartner expects will reach mainstream adoption within the next 5 years, multimodal AI and AI trust, risk and security management (TRiSM) have been identified as dominating the Peak of Inflated Expectations (see Figure 1). Together, these developments will enable more robust, innovative and responsible AI applications, transforming how businesses and organizations operate. 'Despite the enormous potential business value of AI, it isn't going to materialize spontaneously,' said Khandabattu. 'Success will depend on tightly business aligned pilots, proactive infrastructure benchmarking, and coordination between AI and business teams to create tangible business value.' AI Agents AI agents are autonomous or semiautonomous software entities that use AI techniques to perceive, make decisions, take actions and achieve goals in their digital or physical environments. Using AI practices and techniques such as LLMs, organizations are creating and deploying AI agents to achieve complex tasks. 'To reap the benefits of AI agents, organizations need to determine the most relevant business contexts and use cases, which is challenging given no AI agent is the same and every situation is different,' said Khandabattu. 'Although AI agents will continue to become more powerful, they can't be used in every case, so use will largely depend on the requirements of the situation at hand.' AI Ready Data AI-ready data ensures datasets are optimized for AI applications, enhancing accuracy and efficiency. Readiness is determined through the data's ability to prove its fitness for use for specific AI use cases. It can only be determined contextually to the AI use case and the AI technique used, which forces new approaches to data management. According to Gartner, organizations that invest in AI at scale need to evolve their data management practices and capabilities to extend them to AI. This will cater to existing and upcoming business demands, ensure trust, avoid risk and compliance issues, preserve intellectual property and reduce bias and hallucinations. Multimodal AI Multimodal AI models are trained with multiple types of data simultaneously, such as images, video, audio and text. By integrating and analyzing diverse data sources, they can better understand complex situations better than models that use only one type of data. This helps users make sense of the world and opens up new avenues for AI applications. Multimodal AI will become increasingly integral to capability advancement in every application and software product across all industries over the next five years, according to Gartner research. AI TRiSM AI TRiSM plays a crucial role in ensuring ethical and secure AI deployment. It comprises four layers of technical capabilities that support enterprise policies for all AI use cases and help assure AI governance, trustworthiness, fairness, safety, reliability, security, privacy and data protection. 'AI brings new trust, risk and security management challenges that conventional controls don't address,' said Khandabattu. 'Organizations must evaluate and implement layered AI TRiSM technology to continuously support and enforce policies across all AI entities in use.' Gartner clients can read more in the report Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2025. Learn how to fortify 4 AI strategy pillars to drive business impact in the complimentary Gartner AI Strategy Planner. About Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo Additional AI trends will be presented during Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, the world's most important conference for CIOs and other IT executives. Gartner analysts and attendees will explore how to become agents of change in their organizations and harness AI for successful digital transformation. Follow news and updates from the conferences on X and LinkedIn using #GartnerSYM, and on the Gartner Newsroom. Upcoming dates and locations for Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo include: September 8-10, 2025 | Gold Coast, Australia October 20-23, 2025 | Orlando, FL October 28-30, 2025 | Yokohama, Japan November 10-13, 2025 | Barcelona, Spain November 17-19, 2025 | Kochi, India About Gartner for Information Technology Executives Gartner for Information Technology Executives provides actionable, objective insights to CIOs and IT leaders to help them drive their organizations through digital transformation and lead business growth. Additional information is available at X and LinkedIn using #GartnerIT. Visit the IT Newsroom for more information and insights. About Gartner Gartner (NYSE: IT) delivers actionable, objective business and technology insights that drive smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization's mission-critical priorities. To learn more visit
New York Times
17-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Boy Blue Brings British Hip-Hop to Lincoln Center
The dancers of Boy Blue, a London hip-hop dance company, move with extraordinary precision. When they hit a beat, they hit it as one. Between beats, they can seem to speed up or skip ahead, as if someone were dragging a video scroll bar. The effect is digital-age in appearance, but it's the result of an age-old practice: the painstaking, detail-obsessed pursuit of perfect synchronization, body with body, and dance with music. That tight relationship between sound and motion can be traced to the tight relationship between the company's directors: the choreographer Kenrick Sandy (also known as H20) and the DJ and electronic composer Michael Asante (who goes by Mikey J). They met when they were teenagers, and they weren't much older than that when they founded Boy Blue at an East London youth center. Since that day, in 2001, they have built it into one of the most influential companies in British hip-hop dance-theater. The dance part of that equation is a mix of styles: the snap, bounce and stop-motion articulations of popping and locking, the in-your-face aggression of krump. The theater part has tilted dark and dramatic, with an aesthetic on the dystopian end of Afrofuturism and an emphasis on the trauma experienced by Black people. In 'Black, Whyte, Gray,' which the company performed at Lincoln Center in 2018 and 2019, the precision suggested trapped robots and gang activity out of a 'Mad Max' movie. 'Free Your Mind,' a recent stage collaboration with the director Danny Boyle, updated 'The Matrix.' But Boy Blue's newest creation, 'Cycles,' is something of a return to roots. A co-production of the Barbican Center in London, where Sandy and Asante have been associate artists since 2009, and Lincoln Center, where it will have its New York premiere on March 27, the hourlong work is dense with dance. From left, Corey Owens, Nicey Belgrave and Jimmy Allan in 'Cycles.' The dancers need to execute intricate choreography with precision and also need to be able to show off individual style and virtuosity in freestyle fashion. Credit... Camilla Greenwell 'Let's put narrative aside,' Asante said on a recent video call, recalling his idea for the work. 'Let's be totally uncompromising about the sonics, and let's just make this pure dance, top to bottom.' Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
