Compared to a few years ago, the artificial intelligence (AI) market is starting to solidify around real-world applications with the pace of change being faster than it ever has been before, as startups and technology providers rush to create platforms and targeted niche solutions for solving specific enterprise problems. According to a new report from Tractica, the rising tide of AI adoption across multiple industries will drive significant growth during the next decade, and the market intelligence firm forecasts that annual worldwide AI software revenue will increase from $3.2 billion in 2016 in 2016 to $89.8 billion by 2025. This forecast is a significant upgrade of Tractica's previous projection for AI market revenue, which was published in 2Q17, due to an improved outlook for a number of specific use cases across multiple industries. "Artificial intelligence is already key to how consumer internet companies operate today, allowing them to roll out hyper-personalized services by following an'AI first' strategy," says research director Aditya Kaul. "The rest of the market in the enterprise and government sectors is still catching up on adopting AI and has yet to fully understand its value, including the breadth and depth of use cases, the technology choices surrounding AI, and the implementation strategies."

Artificial intelligence (AI) within the consumer, enterprise, government, and defense sectors is migrating from a conceptual "nice to have" to an essential technology driving improvements in quality, efficiency, and speed. According to a new report from Tractica, the top industry sectors where AI is likely to bring major transformation remain those in which there is a clear business case for incorporating AI, rather than pie-in-the-sky use cases that may not generate return on investment for many years. "The global AI market is entering a new phase in 2020 where the narrative is shifting from asking whether AI is viable to declaring that AI is now a requirement for most enterprises that are trying to compete on a global level," says principal analyst Keith Kirkpatrick. According to the market intelligence company, AI is likely to thrive in consumer (Internet services), automotive, financial services, telecommunications, and retail industries. Not surprisingly, the consumer sector has demonstrated its ability to capture AI, thanks to the combination of three key factors – large data sets, high-performance hardware and state of the art algorithms.