AI and Automation Trends 2025: A Strategic Guide for Business Leaders

Author(s): Murat Girgin

Originally published on Towards AI.

2023 was the year of GenAI hype. 2024 became the year of experimentation. And now, 2025 is shaping up to be the year of real business impact.

C-levels focusing on concrete actions — created with Microsoft Designer

After analyzing UiPath’s comprehensive report on AI and automation trends for 2025, I’ve created a structured summary of the seven key trends that will shape how businesses leverage AI and automation in the coming year. Each section highlights the core insights, recommended actions, and includes relevant quotes from industry experts.

Agentic AI represents a transformative leap in artificial intelligence, enabling software agents to plan, make decisions, and adapt autonomously. Built on GenAI foundations but enhanced with large action models (LAMs), these agents can respond to plain language prompts, reason through complex processes, and take actions to reach goals without relying on rigid business rules. Industry analysts are taking notice, with Gartner naming agentic AI a top 25 technology trend for 2025, and IDC projecting the category to grow 10-fold by 2028 to over $4 billion. Most notably, 71% of executives say AI agents will drive higher automation in their workflows, with 52% planning to implement them in 2025.

To-Do in 2025:

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