Best of 2025: Real-Life AI Agents Are At Work In These Fields
IT-Techstrong.ai, Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
In the self-proclaimed year of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, real-world examples have been relatively scarce despite mountains of press releases and megaphone declarations from tech executives.
But they do exist and have proven effective in their initial deployments, based on more than a dozen interviews with AI agent vendors and their customers in healthcare, finance, retail, logistics, and manufacturing-fields that are increasingly adopting autonomous agents to do everything from automating schedules and workflows to accelerating drug discovery.
'AI adoption has accelerated significantly this year, with healthcare organizations moving beyond experimentation to deploy real-world solutions that deliver measurable value,' Jesse Cugliotta, global head of healthcare and life sciences at Snowflake, said in an email. He noted that AI is transitioning from back-office applications to human-centered solutions that directly impact front-line workflows.