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Gen AI disillusionment looms, according to Gartner's 2025 Hype Cycle report


The report lays out the top 4 innovations of 2025, including what's in and what's on the way out.

Gartner acknowledged that these two technologies are among the most rapidly advancing, but that they are "accompanied by ambitious projections and speculative promises, placing them at the Peak of Inflated Expectations," or a critical saturation point where their productive applications are either realized or not. "This will cater to existing and upcoming business demands, ensure trust, avoid risk and compliance issues, preserve intellectual property and reduce bias and hallucinations," the report said. This year's report noted that several areas of AI have slipped into the Trough of Disillusionment, or the period in which a technology fails to reach the lofty expectations set for it during the inflation stage.

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