Alex Johnston is a senior research analyst on the 451 Research Data, AI & Analytics team at S&P Global Market Intelligence. He focuses on emerging technologies and how they can be applied in business contexts. Alex's primary coverage areas are artificial intelligence, distributed ledger technology and event stream processing. Alex’s recent areas of concentration include monitoring the emerging generative AI market, tracking the evolution in blockchain use cases and investigating real-time architectures. Before joining S&P Global Market Intelligence, Alex was a principal analyst at Procurement Leaders, leading much of the research on procurement and supply chain. His specialty focus was procurement and supply chain technology markets, advising chief procurement officers on digital roadmaps and building out a suite of diagnostic tools. He has a background in qualitative and quantitative research and has significant data science experience. Alex holds a history degree from the University of Warwick.
Data, resource and market concentration are becoming hot topics as organizations and regulatory bodies grapple with the competitive dynamics of an AI ecosystem transformed by the rise of generative AI. In response, there is a growing argument for 'decentralized AI' as a counterbalance.
AI is an emerging area full of uncertainties and challenges, so shepherding an AI project from its start to a successful finish is not easy. In 451 Research interviews, IT professionals have shared tips that might help other organizations develop their AI projects, and avoid a few pitfalls along the way.
LangChain is an open-source framework designed to streamline the development of AI applications leveraging large language models. Following the framework's release, startup LangChain was founded to foster the framework's growth and development, and earlier this year, the developers released LangGraph to enable developers to build more complex AI agents.
As demand for AI has ramped up, a slew of impacts to global businesses have emerged, with AI strategies influencing everything from spending intent to vendor vetting.
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