Observed Signal · May 30, 2024 · Analysis · Source: CMSWire · Impact: 2/5 · Sentiment: Neutral
Vertical AI Accelerates Production Adoption Across Industries
The article discusses the growing shift from horizontal generative AI platforms to vertical, industry-specific AI solutions. It argues that specialized large language models trained on proprietary industry data offer higher accuracy and relevance, accelerating production adoption. Gartner predicts generative AI use in enterprises will jump from under 5% to 80% by 2026. The piece highlights emerging vertical AI applications in legal (Harvey AI, Paxton AI, Alexi), finance (Vic.ai, Brightwave.io, Truewind.ai), insurance (Sixfold, Shift Technology), and healthcare (Hippocratic AI, Abridge, Augmedix). It also notes partnerships like HCA Healthcare and Mayo Clinic collaborating with Google Cloud. The author concludes that companies with access to domain-specific data will win in the long run, as foundational models become commoditized utilities.
Provides insights into vertical AI adoption across industries, relevant to AI infrastructure trends but not a specific industry-shifting event.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Gartner predicts more than 80% of enterprises will have deployed generative AI by 2026, up from less than 5% in 2023.
- Harvey AI is a generative AI platform designed for legal professionals, trained on legal datasets and case law.
- Vic.ai automates 80% of invoice processing, reducing invoice handling time from 20 minutes to 30-45 seconds.
- Only 6% of insurance respondents in Gartner's 2024 CIO survey have adopted generative AI.
- AI could save the U.S. healthcare industry up to $100 billion annually by streamlining processes.
Connected Companies & Entities
9 Entities mapped“According to Gartner, by the end of 2023, there were less than 5% of generative AI enabled applications in production environments....”
“The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market has had vertical solutions for some time, with successes like Veeva (life sciences CRM)....”
“It is part of a collaboration among HCA Healthcare, Google Cloud and Augmedix, an AI healthcare technology company....”
“Foundational models are the bedrock of the AI stack with leaders being Anthropic, Cohere and OpenAI....”
“Foundational models are the bedrock of the AI stack with leaders being Anthropic, Cohere and OpenAI....”
“Foundational models are the bedrock of the AI stack with leaders being Anthropic, Cohere and OpenAI....”
“Examples of this are companies like Hugging Face (model discovery), Weights & Biases (machine learning operations — MLOps) and LangChain (la...”
“Examples of this are companies like Hugging Face (model discovery), Weights & Biases (machine learning operations — MLOps) and LangChain (la...”
“According to the Future of Professionals report, 70% of legal professionals said they believe AI and generative AI will have a transformatio...”
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