CBInsights has released that aims to highlight key technology trends moving forward, as we prepare for 2025.
CBInsights has looked at the future of LLMs, caregiving humanoid robots. crypto’s so-called “baby steps” and other important innovations.
CBInsights data has uncovered a number of high-potential emerging trends that will shape the fast-evolving tech landscape for the years to come.
As noted in the research report from CBInsights, AI advances have “ushered in a new wave of opportunity in tech.”
CBInsights 2025 Tech Trends report provides a concrete roadmap for corporate leaders to “navigate some of the most important technology shifts in the year ahead.”
They include recommendations for action so that business professionals can get ahead of the “next wave of value creation.”
As noted by CBInsights, here are the key findings from the report:
- AI agents are given money to spend: AI agents’ utility is limited until they can make transactions seamlessly. A small group of tech players is building new infrastructure to make that happen.
- The future data center arrives: With data center power usage expected to more than double by 2026, big tech companies are morphing into energy innovators to support AI workloads. There’s a huge opportunity in improving data centers’ energy efficiency.
- Investment floodgates open for RNA therapeutics: RNA therapeutics developers are pioneering new ways to treat traditionally “undruggable” diseases, with a growing focus on neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases.
- AI M&A fuels the next wave of corporate strategy: AI’s share of corporate tech M&A has doubled since 2020. Tech incumbents like Nvidia, Salesforce, and Snowflake, as well as consultancies like Accenture, are rapidly acquiring AI startups to tap into enterprise demand.
- Disease management enters a new phase with AI: AI is improving care delivery across 3 key areas of disease management: precise symptom evaluation; testing/screening for earlier disease detection (including before symptoms even appear); and finding at-risk individuals in datasets of entire patient populations.
- Retail’s personalization imperative: Generative AI is unlocking 1:1 experiences across commerce touchpoints, with leaders like Target seeing a corresponding 3x boost in conversation rates. Personalization will become omnipresent in retailers’ offerings.
Methodology
CBInsights analysis relies on a wide range of CB Insights datasets, including the following: financing and acquisition data, valuations, founding team and key people data, earnings transcripts.
They leverage CB Insights’ scoring algorithms to measure “business health (Mosaic) and maturity (Commercial Maturity), as well as the likelihood of acquisition (M&A Probability score).’
