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Artificial Intelligence: What to expect in 2025

Artificial Intelligence

1/21/2025

How investors could take advantage of the already big and exponentially growing AI market

Maria Milina

Research Analyst

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IN A NUTSHELL

  • We expect no AI capex slowdown near-term, increasing energy demand, high focus on cybersecurity, sovereign AI and AI agents will continue to dominate our attention in 2025.
  • Investment opportunities likely to start moving towards software and service companies able to best integrate AI in their services.
  • Intelligence Everywhere is likely to become a big new agent for change and growth.

 

Anticipation of widespread use of by many industries has been one of the key stock market drivers in the past two years. In 2025, AI developments could make significant strides across various domains. We expect a shift from generalized applications to industry-specific solutions. Companies will refine their strategies to target specific use cases that deliver measurable results. In this article, we discuss five trends that investors should pay attention to in 2025. We also include a brief interview with DWS Senior Portfolio Manager, Dan Fletcher who maps out for us the AI investment universe, as well as discusses disruption potential of AI from “no code” software to growth in “intelligence capacity.”

1 / isn’t slowing down

  • Bloomberg estimates that Microsoft, Amazon, Google and other big tech companies could collectively increase capital expenditure (capex) to about $200bn in 2025.[1]
  • Over $90bn in incremental capital spending in 2024-25 vs. 2023 is expected to be dedicated mostly to expanding generative AI (gen AI) infrastructure.[1]
  • “AI bears” may believe that overbuilding AI infrastructure sets future expectations too high. Others are concerned that AI model progress will outpace physical infrastructure, leaving the latter outdated. “No one will ever train a frontier model on the same data centre twice”—by the time the model has been trained, the will have become outdated, and frontier will have grown.[2]
  • Cloud providers believe that they don’t have a luxury to wait and see how the technology evolves. The fear of being left behind drives a cycle of competitive capex escalation.

Artificial Intelligence: What to expect in 2025
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