2024 Year-End Review and 2025 Predictions
12/25/24 • 46 min
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It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.
SHOW: 884
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #884 Transcript
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW NOTES:
- Cloud + AI News of the Year 2024 (shows, summaries, links)
Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?
Aaron
- 2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worse
- There will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI
- 2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)
Brian:
- Gov’t vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)
- Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?
- Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)
- AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?
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It’s that time of the year again. Brian and Aaron wrap of the year in Cloud and AI, and make predictions for 2025.
SHOW: 884
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #884 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW NOTES:
- Cloud + AI News of the Year 2024 (shows, summaries, links)
Predictions, or 2025 areas of focus?
Aaron
- 2025 will be the year of AI ROI, and Agentic AI will make this worse
- There will be at least one “SkyNet scare” of Agentic AI
- 2025 will also be the year of inference (see ROI)
Brian:
- Gov’t vs. AI (US Trump, EU, China)
- Emergence of an AI Agent stack or standard?
- Useful or killer AI apps? (new focus of Weekend Perspective)
- AI pricing evolves based on usage patterns or just need for revenues?
FEEDBACK?
- Email: show at the cloudcast dot net
- Bluesky: @cloudcastpod.bsky.social
- Twitter/X: @cloudcastpod
- Instagram: @cloudcastpod
- TikTok: @cloudcastpod
Previous Episode
Evaluating Market Changing Trends
If AI is going to be the next big trend in tech and impact every aspect of society, how do you go about trying to evaluate where it is today and where it might be in a few years or a decade?
SHOW: 883
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #883 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW NOTES:
HOW MIGHT YOU CONSIDER THE BEGINNING OF A TECHNOLOGY MARKET SHIFT?
- What’s the landscape of players in the game?
- What are the potential moats? (technology, economics, people, political policies, geographic)
- What are the economics of the technology shift? Where will big changes happen?
- What are the usage patterns? Are they well defined?
- How long behind the consumer shifts will the enterprise shifts happen?
- What behaviors will need to change (significantly) for this to have wide adoption?
- How might this impact my work, my family, my company, etc.?
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Next Episode
Auth in the Age of AI Agents
Jake Moshenko (@jacobmoshenko, CEO of @AuthZed) talks about the challenges of securing AI interactions, as well as authentication best-practices for AI Agents and RAG patterns.
SHOW: 885
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #885 Transcript
SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
NEW TO CLOUD? CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCAST: "CLOUDCAST BASICS"
SHOW NOTES:
- Authzed (homepage)
- SpiceDB - Authorization that scales (GitHub)
- Google’s Zanzibar (research paper)
- Annotating Zanzibar (by AuthZed)
- Authzed CEO discusses Auth for AI RAG and Agents (TheCUBE)
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and why you decided to start AuthZed.
Topic 2 - AuthZed is based on technology from Google called Zanzibar. There’s an in-depth research paper, but give us some background on the types of problems it solves and why it was so appealing to you.
Topic 3 - Authorization is used for every application, but let’s talk about it in the context of AI or AI Agents. This is still a fairly new concept, but what authorization-related challenges do you expect GenAI or AI agents to create for developers and operators?
Topic 4 - Is this space moving so fast that people already realize they’ll likely need something more modern, like Authzed, or are there mistakes they are making today that are going to cause serious red flags soon?
Topic 5 - What is the typical path for companies or teams to adopt Authzed, and is it something that can start small and grow (or merge with other groups), or does it have to be centralized like at Google?
Topic 6 - What are some of the more important areas that people building and growing AI systems that need authorization should be keeping an eye on?
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