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

This presentation was recorded at YOW! Australia 2025. #GOTOcon #YOW
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Ekaterina Sirazitdinova - Senior Developer Advocate at NVIDIA @TechWithKatja 

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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

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https://yowcon.com/brisbane-2025/sessions/3808

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