Top AI Trends in 2026: What’s Actually Changing (Not Just Hype)
The biggest AI trends in 2026 are: (1) Agentic AI that takes actions autonomously, (2) multimodal models handling text, image, and audio together, (3) on-device AI running privately on phones and laptops, (4) open-source models like Llama 3.1 catching up to GPT-4, and (5) AI-native software replacing legacy SaaS. The clearest change from 2024: AI…