Gartner warns agentic AI startups: Prepare to be consolidated

Gartner has signaled that the supply of "agentic AI" in terms of models, platforms, and products far outstrips demand, creating a situation that will lead to consolidation and market correction. The analyst company expects the agentic AI market – based on LLM-powered models that perform tasks for humans – to consolidate in the …

[ParlezVousFranglais]

Firstly, can we at least get the timeline straight - "Gartner's position follows the Bank of England's warning that there is a danger of a sudden correction in the financial markets"

No it doesn't - Will Sommer at Gartner released his opinion two days ago, and it has now been contradicted by the BoE warning yesterday, and then again by Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan, not to mention Sam Altman at OpenAI, who all believe there sure as hell is a bubble, and it's very likely going to burst and hit a lot of companies.

If Gartner thinks what we're seeing is "a regular part of the product life cycle" and there's just going to be some kind of controlled and happy merging of a few companies & products into one another, then they need to take the red pill and wake up

[Anonymous Coward]

The AI start-ups want consolidation.

Start a company, make some ludicrous claims, backed up by some ‘wafer thin’ evidence or analyst recommendations, sell out for stupid money and run away. Fast, no looking back.

Rinse and repeat.

[JamesTGrant]

In other news, Gartner discovers that many tech startups exist in the hope of getting acquired by existing massive corporations.

[Ashentaine]

Pretty much. The point isn't to actually create some innovative new product or service, it's to have a concept that sounds so good some rich sucker who wants to cash in on it will buy you out, even if said concept proves to eventually be non-viable.

[O'Reg Inalsin]

Shock!

... while the winners would be capital-rich incumbents

[amanfromMars 1]

I doubt agentic AI start-ups are unprepared for anything dreamt up to be against them

Gartner warns agentic AI startups: Prepare to be consolidated

Analyst predicts over-supply will trigger a market correction in favor of deep-pocketed incumbents

FFS .... No shit, Sherlock ‽ And do folk actually pay to have Gartner telling them the bleeding obvious too?

What crazy dumb-founded world that is. I'm into agreeing with Albert Einstein if he ever said ....

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

...... although we would have to agree to disagree on at least one difference he is supposed to have noted between stupidity and genius ....

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.