#45 The Future Is Vertical—AI Agents Shaping Healthcare, Finance, and Agriculture
The AI forums are buzzing with the new terms “Vertical AI” and “AI agents”
Y Combinator has gone further by predicting that Vertical AI agents would be 10x bigger than SaaS.
A quick glance at these terminologies:
Horizontal AI: General Purpose AI systems designed for broad applications across industries - these have broad and cross industry use cases.
Examples would be NLP (Google Translate), General AI tools (IBM Watson), Virtual Assistants (Siri, Alexa)
Vertical AI: These are tailored systems designed for a specific industry and domains.
The quickest example that I have been exposed to would be the finance insights provided by the Bloomberg terminal.
Vertical AI Agents: Autonomous systems that would perceive, reason and act to achieve goals in one particular industry/task.
Zebra Medical Vision from Israel is one such company that I came across - detects diseases like cancer and fractures from radiology images
Taranis is a European agri based company venturing into “Turning leaf level imagery into actionable insights” - using a multi channel data acquisition on crop health to predict yield quality
This new chatter on the Vertical AI agents growing big is not a surprise. As the hardware cost starts going down - I am looking forward to seeing which vertical would create the first unicorn in India.
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