Generative AI’s Act o1-The Agentic Reasoning Era Begins

Two years into the Generative AI revolution, research is progressing the field from "thinking fast"—rapid-fire pre-trained responses—to "thinking slow"— reasoning at inference time. This evolution is unlocking a new cohort of agentic applications. On the second anniversary of our essay "Generative AI: A Creative New World," the AI ecosystem looks very different, and we have some predictions for what's on the horizon. The foundation layer of the Generative AI market is stabilizing in an equilibrium with a ke ...