The Future of AI – Key Trends Shaping What’s Next • Ekaterina Sirazitdinova • YOW! 2025

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW https://yowcon.com Ekaterina Sirazitdinova - Senior Developer Advocate at NVIDIA @TechWithKatja RESOURCES https://twitter.com/katjasrz https://github.com/katjasrz https://www.linkedin.com/in/katjasrz https://katjasrz.github.io Links https://youtu.be/P-aHuUJfAMM https://build.nvidia.com/nvidia/video-search-and-summarization https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM https://github.com/ai-dynamo/dynamo ABSTRACT AI is evolving faster than ever, with groundbreaking advancements in multimodality, agentic workflows, and reasoning capabilities redefining what’s possible. In this talk, we’ll take a high-level look at the latest trends shaping the future of AI, from scaling laws to the rise of more autonomous and adaptable systems. This session will provide a fast-paced overview of where AI is headed and what these innovations mean for the next wave of intelligent technology. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 03:37 How far AI has come 13:11 Reasoning token budget 15:29 Learn & understand everything 23:20 Physical AI is hard to develop 30:07 Low inference latency is a must 32:02 Smaller model footprint required for local deployment 33:44 Al model distillation 35:32 Speculative decoding 36:16 Quantization of weights & activations 38:12 NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM 42:11 NVIDA Dynamo 42:28 Key takeaways 43:05 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3808 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Michael Feathers • AI Assisted Programming • https://leanpub.com/ai-assisted-programming James Phoenix & Mike Taylor • Prompt Engineering for Generative AI • https://amzn.to/43cFDqO Phil Winder • Reinforcement Learning • https://amzn.to/3t1S1VZ Lakshmanan, Görner & Gillard • Practical Machine Learning for Computer Vision • https://amzn.to/3m9HNjP Leo Porter & Daniel Zingaro • Learn AI-assisted Python Programming • https://amzn.to/3Pv3Hx7 https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #NVIDIA #AI #ML #DataScience #AINetworks #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AIAnalytics #DataAugmentation #AMP #AutomaticMixedPrecision #TodayInTech #EkaterinaSirazitdinova #KatjaSirazitdinova #TechWithKatja #YOWcon CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1