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2024 Year-End Review and 2025 Predictions
It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.
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SHOW NOTES:
- Cloud + AI News of the Year 2024 (shows, summaries, links)
Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?
Aaron
- 2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worse
- There will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI
- 2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)
Brian:
- Gov’t vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)
- Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?
- Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)
- AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?
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