2025 Tech Trends Report SXSW

Rice made from cow genes??? Proteins & carbohydrates in one bite using AlphaFold

SIGNAL: robots knowing how to tie a shoe (DeepMind). LI is going to start unlocking new pathways to advancements.

Key Insights 

1. Sensor networks are evolving AI from OBSERVER to CONTROLLER. 

2. AI & biology merge to make matter programmable and life reprogrammable. 

3. Microscopic machines will give us power over nature.  

Should you allow engineered mircoorganisms to run your supply chain in the future?

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) - when AI models begin to work in teams. they can deliberate on solutions, improve off of each other’s work, all in ways that they could not have done individually. Designed to work without a human in the process.

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Metamaterials - engineered materials with properties that aren’t found in nature, created through precise micro structural design. They can bend light or sound, they don’t follow the rules of physics.