IBM Think 2025: The Mainstreaming of Gen AI and Start of Agentic AI
AIWire, Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
IBM kicked off its annual Think conference being held in Boston this week. No surprise, generative AI and tools for enabling agentic AI will dominate discussion at the event expected to attract 5000 attendees. IBM, like most everyone, has high expectations.
'Over the next few years, we expect there will be over a billion new applications constructed using generative AI as they make their way in,' said Arvind Krishna, IBM CEO, at a mid-day virtual media/analyst meeting. He was joined by Rob Thomas, chief commercial officer, and Ritika Gunnar, GM for data and AI.
Citing an IBM CEO Study, Krishna said 'our clients are expecting to double or even increase the investments on AI beyond that, however, they are finding that only about 25% of the time are they getting the ROI that they expect, driven by a lot of factors, access to enterprise data, the siloed nature of the different applications, together with the fragmentation that is happening in the infrastructure.'