Strategic Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence Executive Briefing (Sixth Edition)

Strategic Intelligence: Artificial Intelligence Executive Briefing (Sixth Edition)

Summary

This executive briefing will help you understand the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on your business. It focuses on generative AI and the threats and opportunities it poses to every business. This edition has a particular focus on AI in finance.

This sixth edition of our AI Executive Briefing focuses on the implications of DeepSeek's R1 model and the techniques that were employed in its development. It also covers the latest developments in the wider generative AI field, including a discussion of the start-ups that have been spun out of Google and OpenAI, and a discussion of Google Cloud's ROI analysis. The report also features a sector-specific focus of AI within banking and insurance as well as the latest on global AI regulation.

Key Highlights

• Following the release of DeepSeek’s R1 model in January 2025, investment into generative AI is expected to grow.​
• Open-source models are also expected to become the norm as vendors battle to stay competitive in an increasingly competitive landscape.​
• Start-ups working on AI models for specialized use cases will be more successful in separating themselves from the competition.
• The banking sector is employing generative AI across numerous functions, including customer service, employee research assistants, fraud detection, and stock trading.

• This report explores the implications of DeepSeek's R1 model, different training and inference techniques, generative AI usage across different careers, the impact of AI within financial services, and AI regulation.

• Generative AI is likely to pose a threat to every business across every sector in the coming years.
• The impact will expand across sectors and business functions as generative AI becomes more accurate and is able to provide reliable factual advice.