Forbes January 5, 2025
“2025 will be the year of the AI agent.” Wait — didn’t we already say that in 2023? Back then, I talked about chaining AI models in my podcast. The excitement around AI was huge, and by 2024, many companies rushed to try generative AI, with some even using chained models. But many of these projects failed to scale. Why? Because they were test projects that were not integrated into the system infrastructure or were missing guardrails and quality controls. This will change in 2025, but the product challenges will remain the same. To see what AI agents can do in 2025, let’s consider a simple example: an email-answering tool. Imagine a system that drafts replies to emails automatically. This...