2025: The Year AI Stops Talking and Starts Doing
If your company isn't ready for AI transformation by 2025, you might already be too late.
According to DataStax CEO Chet Kapoor, 2025 will mark the true turning point for generative AI, moving beyond hype into full-scale transformation. Kapoor outlines three phases of AI adoption:
- Delegate (efficiency)
- Accelerate (productivity)
- Invent (reinvention)
Most businesses currently focused on the first two, but the real game-changing applications will emerge next year. The challenges today — building the right technology stack, empowering developers, and addressing governance — are setting the stage for this shift.
Kapoor highlights the importance of open-source solutions as critical to transparency and innovation. With OpenAI’s recent advances in reasoning capabilities and reports of 20-40% productivity gains for professionals using AI, the question is clear: Are you laying the groundwork now, or will your competitors leave you behind in 2025?
Read the full article on VentureBeat.
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