If 2024 was the year of consolidation, 2025 marks the moment when reasoning in AI became the true focus. The AI landscape has shifted profoundly, and the State of AI 2025 report confirms what many have observed over the past year. The focus of AI progress is moving beyond scaling data and compute toward developing systems capable of genuine reasoning and problem-solving.
Since OpenAI’s chatbot took the world by storm in 2022, the generative artificial intelligence tsunami has grown bigger by the day. Now, the focus is shifting to agentic AI—systems designed to act autonomously. Yet, despite the hype, no universal definition of AI agents exists. Their description and even their components vary significantly, depending on the framework, industry, or expert defining them.
