- According to Dinesh Nirmal, Senior VP at IBM Software, enterprises are expected to realize tangible benefits from agentic AI implementations within 18 to 24 months.
- A McKinsey report estimates this emerging tech could unlock a massive US $11–18 trillion opportunity across marketing, sales, and supply chain.
- Adoption challenges: Nirmal highlights hurdles like reliability, scalability, security, and regulation as contributing factors to the delayed payoff.
- IBM is proactively responding by establishing an Agentic AI Innovation Centre in Bengaluru. This hub aims to co-create AI agents, refine smaller LLMs, audit workflows, and explore areas like AgentOps, agent-to-agent communiqués, and fortified security.
