MIT Technology Review has published five trends in AI development in 2025 and excludes agents and small language models, arguing that this is already the obvious next big trend. In addition to this, there are five other hot trends you should keep an eye on this year, according to the outlet. Read on.

For the past few years, we have been predicting the future of AI. Considering the speed at which the industry is evolving, this seems a bit like a dream. But we've been doing this on an ongoing basis and have earned a reputation for our foresight and reliability.

What was our prediction for the last round? The top four trends to watch in 2024, predicted last year, include: what we call custom chatbots – interactive assistant applications powered by multimodal large language models (we didn't know it at the time, but what we're talking about is what everyone now calls an agent, which is the biggest hit in the AI space right now); Generating video (few have technology advanced so fast in the last 12 months, with OpenAI and Google's DeepMind releasing their flagship video generation models, Sora and Veo, in a week last December); and more general-purpose bots that can perform a wider range of tasks (the benefits of large language models continue to trickle down to other areas of the tech industry, where robotics is at the top of the pack).

We've also said that AI-generated election disinformation will be everywhere, but luckily, we're wrong. There are a lot of things that worry us this year, but deep political falsification is rare.