At IBM Corp.‘s TechXchange 2025 event last week in Orlando, Florida, artificial intelligence was the primary theme, as it is at every event today. But the messaging and announcements from this conference were about getting customers over the hump and moving AI from vision to adoption.
I attend more than my fair share of events every year, but my favorite is the Global Citizen Festival in New York City. For those not familiar with it, it’s an international education and advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and its system causes. The goal of Global Citizen is to end extreme poverty by 2030.
It seems every day there’s a new announcement regarding an economic event with artificial intelligence. Recently, Nvidia Corp. made an investment in OpenAI and then OpenAI turned around and took a stake in Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Then there was the $6.3 billion deal between CoreWeave Inc. and Nvidia. Why so much activity?
As Nvidia Corp. announced new robotics innovations at last week’s Conference on Robot Learning in South Korea, the company continues to extend its product line with new capabilities and enhancements. Nvidia announcements at CoRL included: The Isaac GR00T N1.6 open foundation reasoning vision language action model that provides robots with humanlike reasoning to break down complex instructions and execute tasks using prior knowledge and common sense.
As Cisco Systems Inc. held its WebexOne conference this week in San Diego, to no one’s shock the theme of the 2025 event was artificial intelligence — and, of all the markets Cisco plays in, the ones Webex addresses have the most direct end user impact. “We are squarely in the next era of AI, where we are moving from chat bots that answer questions to agents that are going to conduct tasks and jobs almost fully autonomously on our behalf,” said Cisco Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel.