In 2024, the AI industry is developing rapidly. As the saying goes, “One day in the AI world is like a year in human society.” Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firm A16z has published an article titled “2025 Big Ideas in Tech.” Fifty partners have come up with 50 judgments on technology trends, and 22 of them are related to AI. Here are the introductions to these 22 predictions:
**I. New Opportunities for AI in 2025**
**1. The Era of “Second Brain” Is Coming**
We generate a large amount of digital data every day. Large model technology can build a “digital brain” to gain insights into our thoughts and emotions. In the future, there will be numerous related applications that help people understand themselves, improve efficiency, record ideas, and extract key information.
**2. Real-time AI, the Next Important Direction for Application Development**
Real-time AI technology makes interactions like forming a band with an AI drummer possible. After solving the technical latency issue, new possibilities will be opened up. For example, in the field of education, the teaching rhythm can be adjusted in real time to accelerate the creative workflow.
**3. The Next Generation of Pixar Is About to Emerge**
AI will give birth to the next generation of Pixar. Using AI-native narrative formats blurs the line between movies and video games. New interactive videos are generated in real time by neural networks, providing personalized and unlimited gameplay.
**4. The First Year of AI Copilots**
2025 will be the year of AI copilots. Every white-collar job will be equipped with an AI copilot to take on tedious work and allow employees to focus on creative tasks. AI agents can access existing record systems, providing startups with opportunities to solve tedious work processes.
**5. The Golden Age of Sales**
AI-driven sales technology automates administrative work for salespeople, improving efficiency and ushering in a golden age of sales. Enterprises may increase the number of salespeople and increase revenue.
**6. The Shortage of Human Resources Will Create a Super Opportunity for Medical AI**
There is a shortage of personnel in the healthcare industry. AI can automate repetitive and simple work and improve the efficiency of clinical and administrative personnel. In 2025, professional AI models will become a “super staffing” platform for healthcare.
**7. AI Compliance Has Great Potential**
The compliance costs in the banking, insurance, and healthcare industries are high. Large models can train regulatory documents to make compliance checks as simple as searching. AI agents have great potential in compliance checks and rule consultations.
**8. 2025, the First Year of AI-native UI and UX**
In 2025, an AI-native user interface and user experience paradigm will be established. Users are accustomed to interacting with prompts. In the future, the UI will have new interaction mechanisms, and AI agents can take direct actions in the workflow.
**II. New Changes in 2025**
**1. Google’s Search Monopoly Is About to End**
Google’s control over the search market is weakening. Antitrust rulings encourage other search providers. A new generation of artificial intelligence enters the search field. Chatbots divide market share, and professional AI information providers are favored.
**2. The Era of Wrapping Big Models Is Over**
2025 is the year of the rise of the AI-native application layer. Customers value return on investment more. Successful AI applications need to integrate multiple models and absorb customer data, rather than being wrapper products.
**3. More Intimate AI Companions May Appear**
The next generation of AI companions will be more interesting and realistic, with virtual friends, emotions, and motives. Drawing on video game design, conversations will have purposes and appear more real.
**4. AI Video Is Becoming Professional**
In 2025, AI-generated videos will be segmented into use cases and improve professionalism, optimized for different purposes and platforms. It is expected to give birth to industry giants and become a new art form.
**5. Knowledge Work Becomes More Personalized**
AI is difficult to create truly personalized works. In the future, it is expected to achieve style control similar to that in the image field in knowledge work. There are various solutions. AI can intervene like a copilot.
**6. The Stereotype of Traditional Office Software Is Broken**
Artificial intelligence prompts enterprise buyers to reevaluate their technology stacks and abandon old management systems and adopt AI-driven tools that can be dynamically adjusted. This transformation will not happen quickly.
**7. AI Will Begin to Dominate the Decision-making Process**
In the future, AI will not only capture data but also give decision-making suggestions and become the user’s operating system. In the short term, humans will review decisions.
