1、Mary Mesaglio,Hung LeHong21 October 2024Pacing Yourself in the AI Races:2024 IT Symposium/Xpo Keynote InsightsGartner ResearchGartner,Inc.|G00822215Page 1 of 20Pacing Yourself in the AI Races:2024 IT Symposium/Xpo Keynote Insights21 October 2024-ID G00822215-27 min readBy Analyst(s):Mary Mesaglio,Hu

2、ng LeHongInitiatives:CIO Innovation LeadershipAs a CIO,you are in a race to deliver AI outcomes safely and atscale.This recap of the 2024 IT Symposium/Xpo Keynote helpsyou set the right pace for your AI race,so you can achieve thedesired business,technology and behavioral outcomes for yourorganizati

3、on.OverviewKey FindingsWith AI and data coming from everywhere,CIOs must deliver safe AI outcomes.Depending on your organizations ambitions,you will move at either an AI-steady or AI-accelerated pace to deliver:Business outcomes.CIOs want to use AI to improve employee productivity,streamline busines

4、s processes and deliver game-changing improvements to theirbusiness models all at an acceptable cost.Technology outcomes.CIOs want to protect their organizations data and govern AIoutputs while still providing enough flexibility to capitalize on new opportunities.Behavioral outcomes.As AI changes th

5、eir employees tasks,roles and lives,CIOswant to use AI in a way that encourages positive behaviors and intentionallymanage its impact on employees.Gartner,Inc.|G00822215Page 2 of 20RecommendationsStrategic Planning AssumptionBy 2026,more than 80%of independent software vendors will have embedded gen

6、erativeAI capabilities in their enterprise applications,up from less than 5%in 2024.IntroductionTwo AI races have begun.In one race,tech vendors are relentlessly innovating and flooding the market with highlyhyped AI-embedded technologies.A new GenAI frontier model is released every 2.5 dayson avera