{"id":362426,"date":"2025-10-07T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=362426"},"modified":"2025-10-07T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:35:17","slug":"despite-a-market-correction-long-term-investment-in-agentic-ai-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/despite-a-market-correction-long-term-investment-in-agentic-ai-will-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite a Market Correction, Long-Term Investment in Agentic AI Will Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gartner Says Agentic AI Supply Exceeds Demand, Market Correction Looms<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The current supply of <\/span>agentic AI\u00a0models, platforms and products far exceeds demand, which will result in consolidation and market correction, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Gartner analysts anticipate that agentic AI markets will consolidate in the short term as hype and fear of missing out (FOMO) give way to fundamental economics. In this\u00a0AI Vendor Race<\/a>, the losers of consolidation will be undifferentiated AI companies and their investors. The winners will be capital-rich incumbents with the resources to acquire promising technologies and talent.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we see early signs of market correction and consolidation, product leaders should recognize this as a regular part of the product life cycle, not a sign of inevitable economic crisis,\u201d said\u00a0Will Sommer, Senior Director Analyst at Gartner.<\/strong> \u201cOver the longer term, consolidation will enable industry leaders to develop agentic products that meet the technical and business requirements of customers who are presently struggling to adopt AI agents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The mass proliferation of AI providers launching agentic models, agentic-integrated platforms and other agent-infused products far exceeds the present demand (see Figure 1).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Figure 1: The AI Adoption Gap<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Source: Gartner (October 2025)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Similar to other corrections in energy, telecommunications, and the dot-coms, product leaders should view this stage of the\u00a0agentic AI<\/a>\u00a0market as a transition period in which business models are forced to calibrate to transformational technologies.<\/span><\/article>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe impending agentic AI market correction is distinct from speculative bubbles fueled by systemic financial engineering, fraud or policy,\u201d Sommer said. \u201cAt this point, the underlying product, agentic AI, is sound, and the current market correction, where markets rationalize and consolidate, is a regular part of the product life cycle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, a \u2018speculative bubble\u2019 could still form if investment becomes detached from agentic AI\u2019s intrinsic potential to deliver tangible and commensurate economic value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Large tech companies have already been acquiring smaller, specialized\u00a0AI<\/a>\u00a0firms, signaling the start of the market correction phase. With this consolidation will come\u00a0<\/span><\/a>benefits of scale and vertical integration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLarge providers will establish expansive, integrated ecosystems that significantly improve agentic performance, leading to more reliable products targeted at specific business outcomes,\u201d said Sommer. \u201cDomain-specific language models, which provide superior value and performance in specialized applications, represent\u00a0one such innovation<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

These evolutions, paired with changing consumer habits, skills and processes, will facilitate the mass adoption of agentic products. The remaining providers \u2014 the newly emerged AI incumbents \u2014 will attain sustainable growth and eventually the agentic AI market will surpass \u201cadoption\u201d phase expectations based on tangible metrics of productivity and profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gartner Says Agentic AI Supply Exceeds Demand, Market Correction Looms The current supply of agentic AI\u00a0models, platforms and products far exceeds demand, which will result in consolidation and market correction, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. Gartner analysts anticipate that agentic AI markets will consolidate in the short term as hype […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27765,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence-news","8":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}