Listen to fireside chat between Miguel Paredes (AI Fund Fellow & Silicon Foundry Venture Parter) and Katherine Baird (Sr Associate Builder at AI Fund) on the key AI trends founders need to follow for 2025.
Takeaways include:
- DeepSeek’s impact and “Sputnik moment”
- With further commoditization of foundation models, the place to be is in the application layer above the foundation models.
- The reduced costs could lead to increased experimentation and adoption
- Enterprise adoption trends
- There’s a shift needed in organizational design to accommodate AI integration
- Many companies are still figuring out optimal ways to implement AI while maintaining security and compliance
- New business models around outcome-based pricing models
- Tech trends
- Voice interfaces will become more prevalent
- There’s growing interest in large action models (collections of tasks) to help fuel agentic AI workflows
- Multi-modal capabilities are becoming more important
- Looking ahead: 2025 will be a transformative year for AI adoption, with a particular emphasis on practical implementation and organizational adaptation rather than just technological advancement.
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