The development of artificial intelligence has entered a new phase. In recent years, AI has gradually moved from the world of research labs and technology companies to everyday business operations. Today, the question is less and less whether to use artificial intelligence, but rather whether in what areas, for what purposes and with what other technologies we use it.
The spread of technology is well illustrated by the fact that According to OECD data In 2025, 20.21% of businesses in OECD countries used artificial intelligence, compared to 14.21% in 2024 and 8.71% in 2023. The use of large companies is particularly significant: in 2025, more than every second large company used AI technology.
The increasingly close relationship between AI and industry
The industrial significance of artificial intelligence lies not primarily in its ability to automate certain tasks on its own. The real opportunity emerges when AI becomes part of a larger system together with other technologies.
In industrial environments, artificial intelligence can be used, for example, to optimize production processes, analyze equipment status, predict failures, support quality control, or make energy use more efficient.
One important direction of development is that AI is getting closer to the physical world. IoT devices can continuously collect data about machines and the environment, modern communication networks can ensure the connection between devices, and robotics can enable the automation of certain physical processes.
This allows for the creation of intelligent industrial systems that not only collect data, but are also capable of analyzing it, making predictions, and automatically supporting specific processes.
Smart systems require smart infrastructure
However, the rise of AI is not just a software issue. The development of artificial intelligence also requires adequate computing capacity, data centers, network infrastructure, data, and appropriate expertise.
THE Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute's 2026 AI Index Report According to the survey, 881% of organizations will use AI in at least one business function by 2025. The report also shows that industry players are playing a key role in developing AI models: in 2025, more than 901% of major, cutting-edge AI models will be created by industry.
All of this shows that the development of AI is increasingly linked to issues of physical infrastructure, networks, computing capacity, and energy consumption.
AI alone will not transform industry
One of the important questions in the coming years will therefore not be which will be the next big AI technology, but rather how artificial intelligence can be connected to other technologies and industry solutions.
Cybersecurity can protect intelligent systems, robotics can support the automation of physical processes, IoT and advanced networking technologies can connect devices and systems, and medical technology can open the way to new diagnostic and healthcare applications.
That is why ecosystems where different fields and technologies develop not in isolation from each other, but in cooperation with each other, may be increasingly important in future industrial innovation.
This technological connection also plays a prominent role in the approach of the Zsámbék Future Industry Science and Innovation Park. The park's focus areas are – cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, medical technology and smart architecture – are defining development directions in themselves, but together they can create the basis for an innovation environment in which new technologies, research and industrial collaborations can meet.
The industry of the future will be smarter and more connected
The rapid growth of enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence indicates that AI is no longer a technology of the distant future. It is increasingly part of the current economic and industrial transformation.
The competitive advantage of the next period will therefore not necessarily be who uses artificial intelligence first, but rather who can most effectively connect it with the technologies, data and infrastructure of their own industry.
The industry of the future will not simply be more automated – it will be increasingly data-driven, connected and intelligent.
The goal of the Zsámbék Future Industry Science and Innovation Park is to create an environment for this transformation, where new developments and collaborations can be born from the intersection of science, technology and industry.
