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Advancements in AI and quantum computing are driving this growth, helping these platforms reach high enough accuracy levels to replace physical trials and rival traditional lab methods, while operating at a fraction of the cost and time.

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Several factors are driving this recovery. Recent cuts to public cancer research funding are leaving startups to drive innovation, while AI advances are accelerating precision medicine’s transition from development to standard care. Precision medicine customizes treatments based on individual genetic, molecular, and biological factors rather than applying uniform therapies, unlocking market opportunities for tech-enabled diagnostics and treatment selection.

Companies that can harness these technologies are attracting attention from healthcare incumbents, both through investments and strategic partnerships. With cancer rates continuing to rise and treatment revenues growing substantially over the past decade, this momentum seems likely to continue.

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The individual tools for agentic commerce, including AI models, data, selling platforms, and payment rails, remain fragmented. But partnerships will be necessary to stitch them into seamless customer journeys. Tech leaders, with their distribution power and financial infrastructure, are best positioned to control this shift.

Our analysis of CB Insights partnerships data across the major big tech and AI leaders found that 4 companies — OpenAI, Perplexity, Google, and Shopify — have emerged as gravitational centers. The 4 companies have struck 30+ partnerships in AI and agentic commerce over the last 2 years, compared with just a handful across the other tech leaders (Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and NVIDIA). 

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The endgame is fully orchestrated construction sites where AI coordinates everything from material delivery and site preparation to assembly and inspections. While implementation challenges persist — such as the need for sufficiently advanced AI systems, integration with legacy software, and inconsistent connectivity at remote sites — progress toward this vision is moving forward.

Recent surveys show 92% of construction professionals report improved decision-making capabilities with reality capture technology. Similarly, leading firms like Skanska have developed autonomous AI agents that deliver safety guidance in real-time, while Turner collaborated with Versatile to use its AI-powered crane attachment for improved crane utilization, material handling, and production rates.

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Equity funding to drone developers has reached a record $5.5B already this year. More broadly, the drone market is projected to grow from $73.1B in 2024 to $163.6B by 2030, driven by defense spending, more permissive regulations, and AI advances that enable autonomous navigation, real-time object detection, and mission planning without human intervention.

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Half of US federal agencies already report high levels of AI adoption, with these systems projected to handle most routine government functions within the next decade. Similar adoption patterns are emerging across municipal governments and international government bodies, particularly in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Generative AI has already transformed procurement and fleet management through automated contract analysis and vehicle optimization, with major partnerships formed between government agencies and providers like Microsoft, Palantir, and specialized govtech firms.

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Market leaders are transitioning from AI pilots to production systems, leveraging robots that autonomously navigate complex environments and digital twins that optimize all aspects of the industrial value chain.

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In fact, generative AI could create a $13.3B market for utilities by 2033, up from $713M in 2023. That projected jump signals a necessary step change in AI adoption for this historically risk-averse industry.

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These automakers are leveraging AI across the entire value chain — optimizing logistics, personalizing in-car experiences, and advancing autonomous driving. Design teams use generative models to prototype more quickly, while smart factories deploy AI-powered robots to automate complex assembly processes.

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By combining AI with physical dexterity, humanoids can perform complex tasks once limited to people, without the expensive facility modifications that traditional automation requires.

While manufacturing and warehousing use cases lead in early adoption, humanoids are expanding into healthcare, retail, and hospitality sectors, signaling widespread potential in industries that need human-like movement and flexibility.

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Its Lattice operating system serves as a digital backbone for autonomous capabilities across land, sea, air, and space domains. Meanwhile, its Arsenal factory platform aims to modernize the defense manufacturing playbook by producing different autonomous systems on demand, potentially slashing production cycles from years to months while reducing costs.

Together, these strategies bring a startup mentality to defense and have helped Anduril reach a potential $28B valuation and $1B in revenue in 2024 — clear signals of traction among investors, government agencies, and global defense firms.

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GenAI adoption is changing how insurance companies operate, incumbents are meeting new competitors, and startups face a more selective dealmaking environment focused on profitability.

Industry leaders echo this reality: commentary from the InsurTech NY 2025 Spring Conference emphasized an increasingly fast-paced — and fast-changing — insurance industry.

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• Bolttech
• ClearSpeed
• DeepOpinion
• Hercules
• Laka
• Neat
• Optalitix
• Quantexa
• Reserv
• Sprout.ai
• WhatFix
• YuLife

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After generative AI transformed content creation with large language models and AI agents enabled autonomous decision-making with predictive systems across enterprises and industrial applications, humanoid robots represent the next frontier as the embodiment of physical AI.

The humanoid market secured a record $1.2B in funding in 2024 and is projected to reach $2.3B in 2025, according to CB Insights data.

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We highlight three pivotal trends from the event — backed by examples and CB Insights data — that capture the sector’s shifting dynamics in 2025.

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These LLM-powered applications can execute complex tasks autonomously (agents) or alongside a human (copilots) and have come for just about every horizontal job function.

Within the overarching space, 2 markets are already generating over $1B each in annual revenue: enterprise workflow agents & copilots (those targeting a wide range of applications such as general productivity and research use cases) and coding agents & copilots.

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The Denmark-based company’s revenue more than doubled from $21B to $44B between 2021 and 2024. It’s estimated to have driven half of Denmark’s GDP growth last year. 

This financial windfall has supercharged Novo Holdings, the company’s venture arm and majority shareholder, with investment capacity. Armed with this war chest, Novo Nordisk is positioning itself to shape the future of pharmaceuticals.

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Initially known for data processing platforms in the defense and government sectors, Palantir has now embedded AI into its core products — AIP, Foundry, Gotham, and Apollo — to provide analytics and intelligence solutions across industries including automotive, defense, healthcare, manufacturing, and supply chain.

We analyzed Palantir’s investments, partnerships, and product moves since Q1’23 using CB Insights data to identify the 4 key areas driving its next chapter of growth — and the companies it’s aligning with to get there.

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• CLARA Analytics
• Counterpart
• Empathy
• Federato
• Hyperexponential
• INSTANDA
• OutSystems
• Pinpoint Predictive
• Replicant
• Tremendous
• Upstage

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According to CB Insights headcount data, AI firms such as Glean, Scale, and OpenAI have increased their workforce in the country by as much as 67% over the last six months. The country’s domestic AI companies have also seen 32% headcount growth over the same period.

Notably, India is now OpenAI’s second-largest market — with a user base that tripled in the past year — while global tech giants like Microsoft and Nvidia have made substantial infrastructure investments in the country.

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