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Your business runs on AI now. The stats prove it. Over 80% of businesses use AI as core tech, 35% across multiple departments. And 65% regularly use generative AI in at least one business function, up from one-third last year. The machines aren’t coming. They’re already here.
But the next wave hits different. We’re entering an era of deep emotional bonds with AI. Your AI coach understands you. Your AI assistant gets you. Your AI companions feel real. People will get coached by AI coaches, date AI partners, and trust AI’s judgment without hesitation. And it won’t feel strange at all.
Top founders share their AI predictions for 2025
AGI arrives early
Your AI sidekick will make decisions faster than you can blink. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, made a bold claim. “We know how to build AGI by 2025.” And he should know. Gwern, pseudonymous researcher and writer, has an interesting take, explaining, “If you take seriously the idea of getting AGI in a few years, you don’t necessarily have to implement stuff and do it yourself. You can sketch out clearly what you want, and why it would be good and how to do it.”
Make SOPs then sit back and wait “for the better AGI to come along and actually do it then. Unless there’s some really compelling reason to do it right now and pay that cost of your scarce time,” Gwern added.
But Heather Murray, founder of AI For Non-Techies, said that “although we are making huge leaps in AI capability, it’s way off being able to think and reason like a human,” believing that AGI has limitations. “I think we need to be careful about not confusing impressive abilities with actual intelligence,” she added. Ben Cook, co-founder of Coachvox AI, is also skeptical of Altman’s claims, “If OpenAI thinks it’s launching AGI in 2025, they’re changing the definition of AGI. We’re just not there yet.”
AI agents take charge
Your army of AI agents will handle everything while you sleep. Ruben Hassid, CEO of Easygen, predicts, “it’s no longer ‘AI to answer questions’. It will be ‘AI to take actions’. They will become an army of digital employees, trained on someone’s expertise, taste & experience. Duplicating yourself will become the norm.”
Jérémy Grandillon, CEO of TC9 – AI Allbound Agency, said “Today, AI can do a lot, but we don’t trust it to take actions on our behalf. This will change in 2025. Be ready to ask your AI assistant to book a Uber ride for you.” Start small with one agent handling one task. Build up to an army.
“If 2024 was agents everywhere, then 2025 will be about bringing those agents together in networks and systems,” said Nicholas Holland, vice president of AI at Hubspot. “Micro agents working together to accomplish larger bodies of work, and marketplaces where humans can ‘hire’ agents to work alongside them in hybrid teams. Before long, we’ll be saying, ‘there’s an agent for that.'”
Voice becomes default
Stop typing and start talking. Adam Biddlecombe, head of brand at Mindstream, predicts a shift in how we interact with AI. “2025 will be the year that people start talking with AI,” he said. “The majority of people interact with ChatGPT and other tools in the text format, and a lot of emphasis is put on prompting skills.
Biddlecombe believes, “With Apple’s ChatGPT integration for Siri, millions of people will start talking to ChatGPT. This will make AI so much more accessible and people will start to use it for very simple queries.”
In these ChatGPT prompts, designed to make older relatives smile this Christmas, voice was recommended as the way to introduce them to AI. Communicating with AI tools using natural language makes so much more sense than typing. And it’s faster. More people will be conversing back and forth, for content creation, coaching and asking AI to perform tasks on our behalf. We might talk to AI more than we talk to our friends!
Make your business voice-ready. Your customers will expect it.
Video goes mainstream
Creating a movie with just a few words will be possible in 2025. Matt Village, managing editor of Mindstream, sees huge potential. “With Sora just releasing widely, expect AI video to be anywhere and everywhere by the end of the year as competitors play catchup,” he said. “But don’t be surprised if YouTube brings an AI category or watermarking system.”
This will translate directly to marketing success for business owners. “We have over thirty faceless YouTube channels that are creating viral content, entirely using AI, and building audiences, which drives customers for our business,” said Austin Armstrong, CEO of Syllaby.io, the tool he uses to create the videos. “When entrepreneurs catch onto the potential of this, their business will explode.”
Rowan Cheung, founder of The Rundown AI, said “While there will be arguments over Sora’s quality compared to rivals, the reach and user base of OpenAI is unmatched for getting this type of tool into the public’s hands.” He thinks this will be awesome for millions of ‘normie’ AI users, who “are about to have their first high-level AI video experience. Things are about to get fun.”
Kipp Bodnar, chief marketing officer at Hubspot, believes that AI videos will “cross the uncanny valley and become truly as good as natively recorded video.” Your marketing strategy needs video. AI makes it possible at scale.
AI gets embedded everywhere
Your favorite tools all become AI-powered in 2025. Kieran Flanagan, senior vice president of marketing at Hubspot, said it’s all good news. “Models will improve, funding for AI startups will grow, and innovation will continue to get faster, believing that “AI is still in its early adopter phase, with some breakout use cases across coding, research, and customer support.”
Matt Wolfe, founder of FutureTools, adds weight to the AI agent case, but thinks they’ll use the tools. “AI agents will be the biggest talk of all the big tech companies. We’re going to see all of the various models gain the ability to use tools directly through talking to them.”
AI agents won’t just talk to tools. They’ll talk to each other. “By 2025, fully autonomous AI agents will handle a wide range of repetitive tasks, not just returning answers but making decisions and coordinating with other agents,” said Nathan Lands, cohost of the Next Wave podcast, who said they’ll effectively become “invisible team members who improve productivity and adaptability.”
Wearables and retail go smart
Your shopping experience could completely transform by the end of next year. Maria Gharib, senior copywriter at Mindstream, predicts “retail AI for customised shopping experiences in real-time.”
Martina Bretous, senior content marketer and editor at HubSpot, thinks we’ll all be shopping for wearables, building on what she saw in 2024, when “AI wearable startups go to market and be forced back to the drawing board.” But in 2025, Bretous predicts “we’ll see more emerge and they’ll focus on seamless integration with consumers’ existing product stacks.”
Maybe you’ll communicate with your AI agent via a wearable. Maybe you’ll make entire videos after speaking a few words into your wristwatch.
One person, billion dollar company
Scale your company to the moon with zero employees. Richard Reis, founder of Spark AI Dating, dreams about, “running a billion dollar company with just me and my AIs.” When you can clone yourself to coach your clients, write your content, film your videos and even replicate your face, voice and knowledge, will you need to hire anyone?
Ruben Hassid doesn’t think so, adding “I can foresee the advent of massive companies at the smallest scale. The one-person, billion-dollar company.” But this is not a new thing. “It used to be extremely complex and human-intensive to run companies. We went from needing 500 employees to generate a million dollars (in 1900, adjusted for inflation) to Netflix generating $2.47 million in revenue per employee (in 2022). And that was before AI and AI agents.”
Your revenue per employee metric could skyrocket with smart AI deployment. Get ready for a quiet Christmas party.
What entrepreneurs need to know about AI in 2025
Get ready for the next wave of advancements in AI. AGI arrives early, AI agents take charge, and voice becomes the norm. Video creation gets easy, AI embeds everywhere, and one-person billion-dollar companies emerge.
The tools are here. The capability exists. Your competitors are experimenting already. Jump in now and ride the wave of what’s possible when it’s just you and your AI army. The future is closer than you think.
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