Torrents of Dollars, Ever-Increasing Chip and Power Requirements: Here Are the 5 Trends in the AI World for 2025.

In the AI industry, the hour of reckoning is fast approaching.

While it's been just over two years since ChatGPT came to market, it's safe to say that the financial world's infatuation with AI continued into 2024. This was reflected in ever-higher valuations, significant fund-raising, and ever-massive investments. Records continued to be broken in 2024, and billions of dollars continued to flow into the sector.

But 2025 could be a very different story. For many, 2025 will be the moment of truth for the artificial intelligence industry. The time to reap the rewards of these huge investments seems to have arrived. In some cases, it may also be time to acknowledge the failures of these investments.

In what follows, I propose a 5-point breakdown of the major trends that marked 2024 and a look ahead to the challenges of 2025.