AI year in review: Trends shaping 2026

This is a podcast episode titled, AI year in review: Trends shaping 2026. The summary for this episode is: <p>What defined AI in 2025 and what’s coming in 2026? In this special year-end episode of <em>Mixture of Experts</em>, host Tim Hwang sits down with veteran panelists to review the biggest AI moments of 2025 and make bold predictions for the year ahead. </p><p><br></p><p>Kaoutar El Maghraoui unpacks the AI hardware supply crisis and NVIDIA's chip dominance. Gabe Goodhart defends open source's breakout year with models like Kimi K2 Thinking. Chris Hay argues 2025 delivered on "super agents" through ChatGPT Deep Research and Claude Code. Finally, Aaron Baughman and Abraham Daniels predict the future of multimodal AI—from vision models to autonomous digital workers. Join our experts as they separate AI hype from reality and forecast what 2026 holds.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 – Introduction&nbsp;</p><p>00:45 – Chris: Super agents, reasoning models and 2025 reflections&nbsp;</p><p>12:26 – Gabe: Open source's breakthrough year and what's next&nbsp;</p><p>22:17 – Kaoutar: AI hardware in 2025 and predictions for 2026&nbsp;</p><p>29:18 – Aaron &amp; Abe: Multimodal AI and modular model orchestration&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><em>The opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of IBM or any other organization or entity.</em>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Subscribe for AI updates → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/account/reg/us-en/signup?formid=news-urx-52120</a>&nbsp;</p><p>Visit <em>Mixture of Experts</em> podcast page to get more AI content → <a href="https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts</a>&nbsp;</p>