In 2024, a number of discoveries were made using artificial intelligence, including the ability to understand 2,000-year-old scrolls that would normally collapse if humans touched them.
With so-called AI agents, AI also showed promise for improving our quality of life in the future.
We may anticipate seeing more AI agents this year, even though many firms have already deployed them. However, they are not yet as powerful as they could be.
Kari Briski, vice president of generative AI software at Nvidia told: “Enterprises are set to have a slew of AI agents, which are semiautonomous, trained models that work across internal networks to help with customer service, human resources, data security and more. Knowledge workers will be more productive because they can tap into a personalized team of AI-powered experts. Developers will be able to build these advanced agents using customizable AI blueprints”.
AI factories and data centers will also be needed to power this technology, and many more should be built by 2025, according to Charlie Boyle, vice president of DGX platforms at Nvidia.
This year, it will also be crucial to make the power-hungry technologies more environmentally friendly. Boyle told: “As AI workloads continue to drive growth, pioneering organizations will transition to liquid cooling to maximize performance and energy efficiency. Hyperscale cloud providers and large enterprises will lead the way, using liquid cooling in new AI data centers that house hundreds of thousands of AI accelerators, networking and software”.
Technology in Europe: Romania’s moment and cleantech AI startups
According to the CEO of the European education and innovation organization EIT Digital, green AI technology may potentially be Europe’s forte in 2025.
Federico Menna told :“I think the big important development for Europe next year will be the continued growth of AI in the sustainability domain in green clean tech”.
“We see that more and more of these topics [climate] are attracting investments and talents, and Europe has a competitive advantage because historically, we have worked on these not for business purposes, but because of European values”.
Defending against the quantum threat
Google’s Willow chip, which completed a calculation in less than five minutes that would have taken the fastest supercomputer ten septillion years to complete, demonstrated how quantum technology was still advancing in 2024.
We may anticipate the emergence of quantum cryptography in 2025, even if Google’s achievement was not particularly revolutionary because other quantum firms are taking comparable actions.
A powerful quantum computer might disrupt public encryption systems that safeguard our bank accounts, internet interactions, and most critical infrastructure, posing a danger to governments and companies. Quantum cryptography, also known as post-quantum cryptography, is therefore considered the solution to avert this digital apocalypse.