2025 is almost behind us, and AI has officially outgrown the chat box. Reasoning models arrived, agents started taking actions, infrastructure scaled massively, and governments began serious regulation. But 2026 is shaping up to be the year AI stops just assisting and starts operating. We’re moving from tools to systems. From prompts to plans. From demos to deployment. The building blocks are already live.

2025 is almost behind us, and AI has officially outgrown the chat box. Reasoning models arrived, agents started taking actions, infrastructure scaled massively, and governments began serious regulation. But 2026 is shaping up to be the year AI stops just assisting and starts operating. We’re moving from tools to systems. From prompts to plans. From demos to deployment. The building blocks are already live.