Emerging Technologies:
- Predictive concept decoders for interpretable AI systems — Regulatory pressure and enterprise risk management demand explainable AI—companies building interpretable models will capture compliance-heavy industries first
- Spatially-aware video generation with updatable memory — Persistent spatial memory solves video generation's consistency problem—threatens traditional VFX workflows and advertising production economics
- Multi-modal foundation models with 3D understanding — Computer vision applications finally getting depth perception—robotics and AR/VR applications will accelerate once 3D understanding becomes commodity
Research Insights:
- Gradient-guided reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning suggests training efficiency breakthroughs coming—smaller models may achieve frontier performance
- Multi-view foundation models research indicates 3D understanding is next AI capability frontier after language mastery
Patent Signals:
- Google's speed-optimized model patents signal compute efficiency race replacing raw capability competition