The Current State of AI

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Summer 2025

Welcome to The Cirrostratus Group Summer newsletter.

As the summer comes to an end over the next couple of days, I thought it was a good time to provide an update that includes a current assessment of the state of AI.

In past newsletters I've talked about vertical AI/SaaS and I found this short article interesting about how new vertical AI startups are being led. In the past most vertical SaaS businesses were led by industry knowledgeable leaders who hired technical expertise. The current trend is that vertical AI businesses are started by AI technical experts who then hire industry experts. This article provides some background into why but it's clear that industry expertise and solving real customer problems is still key.

Are you using AI in your own internal team meetings? A great HBR article provides some practical insights into the different options of how you can do that.

Paul Ressler

The Cirrostratus Group

The Current State of AI

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Bessemer Venture Partners recently published The State of AI 2025. This is their view of where things stand as of August 2025 with a focus on the business and industry aspects of AI.

The major sections include:

Benchmarks
Roadmaps
Infrastructure
Developer tools
Horizontal AI
Vertical AI
Consumer AI
Major questions
Predictions

Although it is fairly long, it is well organized and you can just read the sections of most interest to you.

Using AI for Team Meetings

This HBR article has some very good practical suggestion on how to use AI in team meetings. They suggest three options of how to use AI with dos and don'ts for each option.

AI sets the table - Using AI to prepare the meeting structure and agenda, meeting documents and important questions
AI at one seat - AI is one of the participants in the meeting providing a different perspective
AI at every seat - All participants individually use AI tools

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