2025 AI REPORT
- Nacho Beites
- 16 jul
- 4 Min. de lectura
20 Surprising AI Insights That Will Reshape How You See the World (Even If You're Not in Tech)
Based on BOND’s "Trends – Artificial Intelligence" Report (May 2025) - 360 pages
Artificial Intelligence is no longer the future. It's the infrastructure of the present — and the lens through which we’ll view work, society, science, and culture for the decades to come.
The May 2025 BOND report provides a vast, data-driven overview of this transformation. While it was designed for investors and founders, the implications go far beyond Silicon Valley.
This article curates 20 insights from the report that are either shocking, inspiring, or simply underappreciated. Each one has the power to reshape how you understand the role of AI in our daily lives.
1. Machines Are Passing the Turing Test, With Style
In a 2025 study, 73% of participants believed an AI (GPT-4.5) was human. Not only that — they described it as "more human" than the actual human.
The AI "felt more authentic" to participants. (p. 42)
This marks a historic moment: AI isn't just functional. It's convincingly social.
2. From Blurry to Beautiful: AI-Generated Images Reach Photorealism
Between 2022 and 2025, tools like Midjourney evolved from generating uncanny, cartoonish outputs to photos that are indistinguishable from professional photography.
AI faces now fool even professional photo editors. (p. 45)
3. ChatGPT Hit 1M Users in 5 Days — the iPhone Took 74
The consumer adoption curve for AI tools is unlike anything we’ve seen. TikTok took 9 months to hit that milestone. Instagram: 2.5 months. ChatGPT? 5 days.
The era of software with viral intelligence has arrived. (p. 58)
4. AI Energy Efficiency Up 105,000x in 10 Years
NVIDIA’s 2024 chip uses 105,000 times less energy per token than the 2014 version. That’s more than a step change.
It’s not just faster and cheaper — it's radically more efficient. (p. 136)
5. AI Already Summarizes Medical Appointments for 25,000+ Physicians
Kaiser Permanente has deployed ambient AI scribes that transcribe and structure doctor-patient conversations in real time.
Reduces burnout. Increases time with patients. (p. 73)
6. Laser-Powered Farming Is Now a Thing
AI-guided robots now eliminate weeds with lasers — no chemicals involved. Carbon Robotics has avoided over 100,000 gallons of herbicide.
AI is literally cleaning up agriculture. (p. 306)
7. You Can Now Speak 29 Languages in Your Own Voice
Spotify, with ElevenLabs, can clone a speaker’s voice across 29 languages — retaining tone, emotion, cadence.
Education, media, podcasting, diplomacy: transformed. (p. 47)
8. Two Non-Coders Built an AI-Powered Chess Course
Duolingo created a fully functional curriculum for chess with two employees who knew neither chess nor coding.
Creativity is becoming about prompts and vision, not syntax. (p. 65)
9. The Next Billion Internet Users Will Talk to an Agent, Not Use a Browser
2.6B people are still offline. As satellite internet (e.g., Starlink) reaches them, they won’t start with Google. They'll start with ChatGPT.
Their first experience of the internet will be conversational AI. (p. 309)
10. AI Helps Workers Go Faster and Do Better Work
According to Pew:
72% of workers say AI helps them complete tasks faster.
68% say it improves quality.
It’s the most adopted productivity booster since email. (p. 85)
11. Farmers Are Becoming AI Operators
Halter equips livestock with smart collars managed by mobile AI. Contracted devices are growing 150% YoY.
Traditional sectors are being augmented, not replaced. (p. 307)
12. Tesla Replaced 330,000 Lines of Code with One Neural Net
The full self-driving software is now AI-native, rewriting procedural code with end-to-end learning.
AI is not just an assistant. It’s becoming the engineer. (p. 301)
13. Enterprise Adoption Is Skyrocketing
From JP Morgan to Salesforce, companies are reporting 10x productivity gains and fast rollout of AI copilots.
It’s not just startups. It’s every boardroom. (p. 72, 225)
14. Agents Are the New Interface
Forget tabs, apps, forms. AI agents are becoming action layers that schedule meetings, make purchases, and analyze data end-to-end.
Welcome to the agentic web. (p. 89)
15. Open-Source AI Is Exploding
Meta’s Llama has crossed 1.2 million downloads. Hugging Face now hosts over 1 million models.
The AI revolution won’t be centralized. (p. 268, 270)
16. China Is Closing the Gap
Models like DeepSeek and Qwen now match GPT-4 in performance — at a fraction of the cost.
The AI race is no longer West-only. (p. 285)
17. Inference Will Eat the World
Training is expensive, but inference (running models) is the real cost center of the future. Usage is persistent, scale-dependent, and growing.
Think of it as cloud compute becoming cognitive compute. (p. 116)
18. CapEx on AI Infrastructure Grew +63% in One Year
The biggest tech companies (Big Six) are building massive AI data centers and investing in chips, energy, and cooling systems.
AI is physical. It needs land, power, and steel. (p. 97, 100)
19. AI Agents Are Already Running Customer Service and Coding
From Salesforce Agentforce to GitHub Copilot to Zoom AI, enterprises are deploying autonomous agents at scale.
Goodbye FAQs. Hello continuous copilots. (p. 225)
20. People in China Are More Optimistic About AI Than Americans
83% of Chinese respondents believe AI brings more benefits than drawbacks. In the U.S., only 39% agree.
The cultural AI gap could become a geopolitical one. (p. 298)
Final Word
AI is not just a tool. It’s becoming the substrate for knowledge, productivity, and even society. The gap won’t be between those who know how to code and those who don’t — but between those who know how to collaborate with AI, and those who ignore it.
As NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang put it:
"You won't lose your job to AI. You'll lose it to someone who uses AI better than you."
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