Gartner is a globally renowned research and advisory firm that provides insights on business, finance & technology. Business owners and top business leaders depend on Gartner’s research releases to know the current trends in the market. Gartner announced the Top 10 vital technologies to watch in 2025. All these technologies have the potential to impact businesses. As we have crossed a quarter of 2025, let us discuss the developments in all the technologies mentioned in Gartner’s List.
Classification of Technologies
Gartner has grouped & classified the top 10 strategic technologies into the following 3 themes.
Theme 1: AI Imperatives & AI Risks to Prevent
Agentic AI
Agent AI is a next level of artificial intelligence that can create autonomous machines with decision-making capabilities without human intervention. Agentic AI technology collaborates with refined reasoning models and a huge amount of data from different sources to solve multi-step complex problems. Agentic AI differs from AI models like ChatGPT by its proactive nature.
The impressive part about agentic AI is that it constantly learns from the different cases using Data Flywheel and easily adapts to the changing environment.
Recent Developments:
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deploys thousands of NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs to enhance its Agentic AI capabilities. Notably, Blackwell GPU is specially designed for accelerated computing & Generative AI systems.
- IBM is launching an autonomous security agentic AI system called Autonomous Threat Operation Machine (ATOM). The autonomous ATOM agentic AI system can do investigation, threat triage & provide remedy with very minimal human intervention.
AI Governance Platforms
AI Governance platforms are frameworks and a set of tools that help to manage, monitor, develop, model lifecycle management, and set boundaries to AI in the organization. The exponential growth of AI systems mandated a need for such governance frameworks to achieve desired goals from AI machines.
AI governance platforms also provide legal, ethical & operational guidance and enable us to use AI technology effectively and responsibly.
Recent Developments
Zenity, an end-to-end security & governance platform, launched its integration with OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise compliance API. Zenity’s integration helps organizations to secure & govern the development, adoption & functioning of AI Agents used in ChatGPT enterprise.
Disinformation Security
In this digital era, it is easier to spoil the reputation of an individual or an organization with small false information or misinformation. Disinformation security is an emerging technology that prevents any inauthentic fake news, false news & misinformation. Cyber attackers use disinformation as a mask of impersonation to steal money and critical information. AI combined with security strategies is strengthening against disinformation.
Disinformation security can be applied in the following ways:
- Implement deepfake detection solutions like forensic analysis tools & digital watermarking tools to identify AI-generated or manipulated media.
- Implement multi-factor authentication mechanisms to provide access to your internal network and systems.
- Implement Cybersecurity best practices & Bot protection systems in place to prevent malicious cyberattacks.
Recent Developments:
AI platform for real-time disinformation detection partnered with Aquion Private Limited, a leading cybersecurity & digital transformation solution to safeguard organizations across the Australia & New Zealand regions.
Theme 2: New Frontiers of Computing
Post Quantum Cryptography
The traditional cryptography does not stand against the massively powerful quantum computers. Quantum computers can break our secret key-based cryptographic techniques within minutes. The growth of Quantum computers is becoming a reality with Google’s Willow & China’s Zuchongzhi series. Post quantum cryptography (PQC) or Quantum resistant cryptography (QRC). It is mandatory for organizations & individuals to have a security technique in place to stay defended in the Post Quantum Era.
Recent Development:
Commvault, a market leader in data management and data protection. Commvault has now added the Hamming Quasi-Cyclic (HQC) Algorithm as an alternative to the ML-KEM (FIPS 203) algorithm. Notably, it has incorporated many post-quantum algorithms endorsed by the US’s NIST standards.
Ambient Invisible Intelligence
Ambient invisible intelligence is the technology that seamlessly enables multiple service components like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning (ML), & Internet of Things (IoT) to work together. Ambient invisible Intelligence provides an immersive experience by automatically altering the websites, Mobile Applications, and other environments by specific user preferences and dislikes.
Recent Development:
Leading Banks are working with a Search engine giant to reap the benefits of behavioural modelling & contextual analysis. Ambient Core Intelligence uses AI potential that could deliver industry-wide transition by increasing personalised user experience without spamming for marketing purposes.
Energy Efficient Computing
Many research institutes forecast that around 7-9% of global electricity will be consumed by data centres in 2030. Because of enormously growing technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) & Cloud computing, there will be more than a 300% increase in the data centre capacity in a couple of years.
Humans must accommodate this capacity without increasing carbon emissions and overexploitation of non-renewable minerals for electricity. Energy-efficient computing is the solution for the future as it optimizes hardware & software to operate as expected using less energy. Energy-efficient computing can be achieved by implementing the following forms:
- Accelerated Computing.
- Green Data Centres.
- New-Age Cooling Methodologies.
- Increased use of Renewable Energy sources.
Recent Development:
Instead of large & complex large language models (LLM) for multipurpose activities, DeepSeek has developed a relatively smaller reasoning model that delivers exceptional results for domain-specific activities. Notably, DeepSeek has greatly disrupted the market.
Hybrid Computing
Hybrid computing is the mechanism of combining multiple computing platforms. Hybrid technology have the advantage of processing complex & differential equations as well as solving logical and numerical operations. This combined potential is required to process and find meaningful information from a huge chunk of data generated every day.
There are multiple ways a hybrid computing system would be beneficial. Here are some of the examples.
- Data Distribution: An edge device in an on-premise environment handles critical data at the endpoint. The cloud infrastructure is responsible for storage, where it retains the historical data.
- AI-powered Smart IoT: Sensors connected to the on-premise edge computing take the expected action item automatically. The cloud system with AI capabilities can be used to predict the next desired outcome by harnessing data stored within it.
Recent Development:
Japan has taken a major step in quantum-centric supercomputing by pairing IBM’s cutting-edge quantum system with the Fugaku supercomputer, which is Japan’s flagship supercomputer. This marks a milestone in quantum-classical hybrid setups and computing power fusion.
Theme 3: Human Machine Synergy
Spatial Computing
Spatial computing is a new form of computing that offers an immersive real-world experience. This immersive 3D experience can be achieved by the fusion of a digital environment with the real-world infrastructure. Spatial computing currently has different wings of technologies, such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies.
Spatial computing has many advantages, like high collaboration capabilities, Simulation & training modules. Industries like Manufacturing, Education, Healthcare, and gaming are demanding more spatial computing capabilities to provide a whole new user experience to their customers.
Recent Development:
A leading optical technology & augmented reality supplier, Vuzix Corporation, has announced a collaboration with Sphere Technology Holdings to integrate Sphere’s spatial computing platform into Vuzix M4000 & M400 smart glasses.
Polyfunctional Robots
Robots are created to share the workload of human beings. Polyfunctional robotics is one of the emerging technologies that has the potential to enhance business innovation in many industries. Unlike traditional robots, polyfunctional robots can learn, adapt to different scenarios, and nurture multi-tasking by themselves without requiring reconfiguration or reprogramming.
The concept of polyfunctional robot technology has become achievable by rapid development in both AI software and hardware. Gartner predicts that these polyfunctional systems will be deployed in the human environment. Polyfunctional robots will be able to use instruments and equipment designed for human access. As a result, we will soon witness a work environment where humans and humanoid polyfunctional robots work together, just like sci-fi movies
Recent Development:
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is deployed in various oil and construction industries to conduct inspections and make data-driven decisions. Spot polyfunctional robot greatly helps in reducing manual labour costs and improving worker safety.
Neurological Enhancement
Neurological enhancement is one of the strategic tech trends that improve neurological functions and cognitive abilities of humans. This emerging technology trend is also called Neuroenhancement. Bidirectional Brain-Machine Interfaces (BBMI) are the heart of neurological enhancement, that is capable of altering neural interfaces of the brain and help humans to stay relevant in the era of AI.
Bidirectional Brain-Machine Interfaces can “read” the brain’s thoughts and “write” brain neural activity to increase cognitive capability. Gartner predicts Knowledge workers will be highly dependent on BBMIs to upskill according to the growing trend and to delete the unwanted memory stored. BBMIs will also help create business innovations by analysing the thought process of customers and providing customised solutions.
Recent Development:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the US Government has approved trials on humans by implanting chips. This would be highly beneficial for differently abled individuals to control the artificial organ system.
Conclusion
The evolution of technology has always been unstoppable. Any technology humankind develops should be beneficial to us and improve our lifestyle, and not vice versa. Gartner has identified a list of recent innovations happening around these technologies.
We suggest that every business adopt at least one technology from the list to have a competitive advantage in the future. Top executives and business leaders of the organizations should formulate a method to adapt these technologies more responsibly and ethically.
