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The unstoppable march of AI continues to gather pace. Analyst Gartner recently forecast that half of all business decisions will be fully automated or at least partially augmented by AI agents within the next two years.
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Some organizations have experimented more than others. Four business leaders who have explored AI shared lessons learned at a recent media roundtable event at Snowflake Summit 2025 in San Francisco. Here's what they had to say.
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Wayne Filin-Matthews, chief enterprise architect at AstraZeneca, explained how his organization is pioneering AI implementations in several areas.
The pharma giant has developed an AI-enabled research assistant that boosts the productivity of scientific researchers by focusing on the reproducibility of scientific methods and the development of new medicines.
AstraZeneca partners with leading academic institutions, such as Stanford University, to run agentic AI experiments.
"We're thinking about how you can have a team of agents that can support the traditional scientists who do their research," said Filin-Matthews.
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