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The Futurum AI Platforms research agenda for 2026 focuses on the critical shift from experimental AI to the deployment of industrial-scale, resilient, and autonomous systems. This transition, which is moving the market’s focus from general-purpose chatbots to agentic applications, represents a significant inflection point for enterprises, vendors, and investors.
Analysts covering AI Platforms
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Alex Smith
GM, Futurum Research, VP & Practice Lead, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces
Brad Shimmin
Vice President & Practice Lead, Data Intelligence, Analytics, & Infrastructure
Fernando Montenegro
Vice President & Practice Lead, Cybersecurity & Resilience
Guy Currier
Chief Analyst, Visible Impact & Research Director, Ecosystems, Channels, & Marketplaces
Keith Kirkpatrick
Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows
Mitch Ashley
Vice President & Practice Lead, CIO & Technology Buyers, and Software Lifecycle Engineering
Nick Patience
Vice President & Practice Lead, AI Platforms
Olivier Blanchard
Research Director & Practice Lead, Intelligent Devices
Latest insights
All AI Platforms insightsOPSWAT at GISEC 2026: Can You Secure What You Can’t Detect?
OPSWAT debuted its AI Content Inspector at GISEC Global 2026, introducing a new defense layer against semantic fraud and AI-generated content that bypasses traditional malware scans in enterprise environments.
HGC and Macroview Bet on AI SecOps Education to Win Enterprise Trust
HGC and Macroview Telecom co-launch an AI ASOC Workshop Series in October-November 2026, positioning themselves as trusted advisors helping enterprises modernize network and security operations amid critical SOC capacity gaps.
GPT-6 Astra Sharpens Cross-File Bug Detection at a 2.5× Price
CodeRabbit’s evaluation reveals GPT-6 Astra catches 20% more bugs than GPT-5.6 Sol on cross-file reviews, demonstrating superior multi-system reasoning despite premium pricing at $10/M input tokens.
Guidewire FY2026: AI Demand Accelerates the Cloud Transition
Guidewire closed FY2026 with $1.24B ARR (19% growth) and $1.48B total revenue (23% growth), with AI emerging as the primary catalyst for insurance customers’ cloud transition and platform modernization.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra: Benchmarks, Cyber Risks, and Market Impact
Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead, AI Platforms at Futurum, shares his insights on GPT-6 Astra and what its cyber threshold and monitorability trade-offs mean for Anthropic and Google.
Adobe’s CEO Succession Bets on Agentic AI and CX Dominance
Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director at Futurum, analyzes how Adobe’s CEO succession positions the company to capitalize on surging enterprise demand for agentic AI and customer experience orchestration.
NetApp Q1 FY 2027: AI-Ready Storage Drives Enterprise Momentum
Futurum Research analyzes NetApp’s Q1 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI data infrastructure, hybrid cloud demand, and migration momentum.
Why Hackathon Winners Reached for Brave’s Search API
At AlphaSignal’s August 2026 hackathon, two independent winners both selected Brave’s Search API to ground their pizza-ordering AI agents, highlighting how reliable real-time web indexing addresses the enterprise AI reliability crisis.
GDIT Joins OpenAI Select Partner Network to Bring Frontier AI to Federal Agencies
GDIT became an OpenAI Select Partner, enabling GPT-5.6 and Codex deployment across U.S. federal agencies while advancing its VIA strategy in the growing channel AI market.
Hitachi Bets on Grid-to-AI Stack as Physical Infrastructure Play
Hitachi pairs sustainable insulating gas production in Germany with HMAX Physical AI expansion, positioning itself to capitalize on enterprise AI investment tied to reliable power infrastructure.
AI Governance Gaps Open a Channel Consulting Opportunity
Entelgy’s survey of 300 Spanish executives reveals 31.7% of large enterprises haven’t started EU AI Act compliance, positioning compliance consulting as a key growth opportunity for channel partners in 2026.
Wayve and Uber Put British AI on London’s Roads
Wayve and Uber launched the UK’s first supervised autonomous ride-hailing service in London on September 3, 2026, with over 140,000 riders opted in, validating Wayve’s AI-native architecture.
Research Reports
All AI Platforms reportsThe Platform Payoff: How AI Makes the Case for a Unified Enterprise Stack
In our latest thought leadership brief, The Platform Payoff: How AI Makes the Case for a Unified Enterprise Stack , completed in partnership with Salesforce, Futurum Research examines why enterprise buyers are consolidating fragmented AI tools into unified platforms, and what that shift means for…
Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt: Why the AI Era Demands an Agentic Data Cloud
In its latest report, Escaping Data Gravity and Infrastructure Debt , completed in partnership with Google Cloud, Futurum Research examines how decoupled data architectures are driving up costs and operational overhead for enterprise AI, and how a natively integrated, serverless data cloud helps…
Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation
In its latest report, Operationalizing Autonomous AI: Architecting the Agentic Enterprise on a Converged Data Foundation, completed in partnership with Snowflake, Futurum Research examines why enterprises must move beyond bolted-on AI applications and adopt a natively governed, multi-cloud data…
Bridging the Capacity Gap: Why 66% of Enterprises Are Investing in Agentic Digital Workers
In its latest thought leadership study, completed in partnership with IFS, Futurum Research surveys 664 enterprise decision-makers and interviews IT and operations leaders at six IFS customers running digital workers in production.
From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for Scalable Generative AI
In our latest thought leadership report, From Experimentation to Execution: Platform Engineering for GenAI, completed in partnership with Red Hat, Futurum Research covers why enterprise GenAI initiatives stall before reaching production and outlines the platform engineering practices organizations…
Orchestrating IT at Global Scale How IBM Consulting Enabled Nestlé’s AI-Driven Delivery Model
In our latest case study, Orchestrating IT at global scale: How IBM Consulting enabled Nestlé’s AI-driven delivery model, completed in partnership with IBM, Futurum Research examines how Nestlé consolidated a 50-plus-vendor delivery model into an outcome-based framework with IBM Consulting as…