The next leap in AI? Doing more with less

Blink and you missed it — in barely three years, the Al economy has moved from a curiosity to the operating system of businesses.

- BY BAIJU KURIEASH Special to Gulf News

After the pandemic, the FOMO (fear of missing out) factor shifted from social media trends. People and companies stopped chasing likes and started rebuilding faster. Generative AI arrived at exactly that moment, with tools like ChatGPT catapulting AI into everyday workflows while advances in computing power quietly turbocharged what these systems could do.

The result: less time on 'stuff work'. More time on creative, high-value work.

Assistant to orchestrator

The next leap is already here: agentic AI. Rather than single prompts producing single outputs, autonomous agents chain tasks, call tools, and coordinate across systems.

Only a minority of firms have embraced this shift, but those that have are turning Al from an assistant into an orchestrator — automating workflows, enforcing quality, and closing loops across platforms from OpenAl to Google, Microsoft, and more.