VentureBeat December 30, 2024
If 2023 was all about generative AI-powered chatbots and search, 2024 introduced agentic AI — tools capable of planning and executing multi-step actions across digital environments. From Devin’s engineering breakthroughs to Microsoft’s early trials with Copilot Vision, the innovations were diverse, but one constant remained: the need to keep data infrastructure organized and reliable.
As enterprises leaned into advanced AI initiatives, several trends reshaped how data is managed, secured and used. Businesses increasingly adopted multicloud, open data, and open governance strategies to avoid vendor lock-in and gain more flexibility. They also focused on unstructured data, transforming data marketplaces into hubs providing pre-trained AI models with proprietary datasets and apps. Simultaneously, progress in vector and graph databases added new possibilities, setting...