Generative AI & Agentic AI Market Report 2026-2032

Description

A 283-page report sizing the generative & agentic AI market to 2032, incl. vendor market shares, enterprise use cases, adoption, and trends

Key Data Snapshot:

2025 Market Size: $308 billion
2032 Forecast: $4.4 trillion
Key Players: AMD,AWS,Accenture,Alibaba Cloud,Anthropic,Capgemini,Google,Intel,Microsoft,Mistral,Nvidia,OpenAI

Generative AI & Agentic AI Market Size, Trends, and Leader 2026-2032

Generative AI & Agentic AI Market Overview

IoT Analytics research indicates that the global Generative AI & Agentic AI market reached $308 billion in 2025. Based on enterprise adoption metrics and technology investment allocations, the market is forecast to reach $4.4 trillion by 2032, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46% between 2025 and 2032. Enterprise adoption reached mainstream levels in 2025, with 88% of surveyed organizations utilizing generative AI technologies. Market expansion correlates with an operational transition from human-prompted assistance toward autonomous agentic workflows that execute multi-step processes under human oversight.

This report outlines the five core segments comprising the technology stack:

AI Accelerators: Comprises GPUs, TPUs, LPUs, and custom ASICs used for model training and inference.
AI Cloud & Platforms: Comprises rented compute infrastructure, model development environments, runtime operations, and agent orchestration layers.
AI Services: Comprises strategy consulting, system integration, custom agent design, and managed services.
AI Applications: Comprises end-user software including chatbots, coding tools, and domain-specific enterprise applications.
Foundation Models: Comprises API usage, fine-tuning, and private model deployments.

Key Trends & Market Leaders

Multi-step agentic workloads require repeated model calls, tool interactions, and memory retrieval, making inference the dominant cost driver across AI infrastructure. Data indicates that multi-step reasoning workflows consume up to 20x the amount of inference compute for every unit of training compute. Concurrently, open standards such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols are establishing common interfaces to connect AI applications, enterprise data sources, and independent software agents. Parallel to this, enterprises are increasing the deployment of specialized small language models (SLMs) to reduce latency and contain token consumption costs.

Regarding market share, infrastructure spending flows primarily to NVIDIA for AI accelerators and Microsoft for AI cloud and platforms. Within software and foundation models, leadership in 2025 was held by OpenAI for foundation models and AI applications, alongside Accenture for AI services. Data for H1 2026 indicates that Anthropic expanded its foundation model market share, driven by API adoption across coding and reasoning workloads.

What is in this report?

This 283-page analysis published in September 2026 details granular market sizing across 5 tracked segments and 15 industry verticals, an empirical analysis of 1,533 enterprise AI projects, competitive market shares across all stack layers, 7 enterprise case studies, and an evaluation of implementation blockers, security concerns, and financial bubble risks.

Key Questions Addressed

What is GenAI and agentic AI, how are they connected, and what are the technological components?
Which use cases are enterprises prioritizing, and how autonomous are deployments becoming?
What is the current market size, and how is the market expected to grow to 2032?
How large are the 5 tracked segments (AI accelerators, foundation models, AI cloud & platforms, AI applications, AI services), and how is the segment mix shift expected to develop?
What are the market shares of key players, and who leads in each of the 5 segments?
Which are the leading AI applications, and which application categories grow fastest?
How are leading enterprises deploying GenAI and agentic AI?
What are the important implementation considerations and adoption blockers?
What are the current and next trends - from inference costs to MCP/A2A and AI regulation?
Are we in an AI bubble? What do ROI, CapEx payback, and valuations say?

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Generative AI & Agentic AI market size?
- Data indicates that the global Generative AI & Agentic AI market reached $308 billion in 2025 and is forecast to grow to $4.4 trillion by 2032. The full report provides granular market sizing and forecasts broken down across 5 technology stack segments and 15 industry verticals.
Who are the leading companies in the Generative AI & Agentic AI market?
- In 2025, market leadership was held by NVIDIA in AI accelerators (80.9% share), Microsoft in AI cloud and platforms (26.7% share), OpenAI in foundation models (41.9% share) and AI applications (33.7% share), and Accenture in AI services (11.4% share). In H1 2026, Anthropic captured 54.4% of the foundation model market. The full report provides complete market share breakdowns for vendors across all five stack layers.
What is the top trend in the Generative AI & Agentic AI market?
- The market trend is the operational shift from single-turn AI assistants to multi-step autonomous agentic workflows, which is making inference the dominant compute cost across AI infrastructure. This transition is supported by open connectivity protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) standards.

Companies mentioned

AMD
AWS
Accenture
Alibaba Cloud
Anthropic
Broadcom
Capgemini
Coreweave
Google
Huawei
IBM
Intel
Microsoft
Mistral
NVIDIA
OpenAI
Oracle

GenAI & Agentic AI Market Report 2026-2032 (PDF)

1. Executive summary

The GenAI & agentic AI market: What has changed since our last report?
Executive summary (6 parts)

2. Introduction

Key action items from this report
Chapter overview: Introduction
Starting point: Defining GenAI and its relationship with AI, ML, and DL
The new paradigm: Agentic AI
How we got here (2 parts)
Anthropic’s rise marked the commercial breakthrough of agentic AI
Funding for GenAI & agentic AI companies reached record values
In the meantime, (Gen) AI has surpassed human capabilities in many tasks
Enterprise usage is now mainstream
AI investments are expected to increase strongly
Agentic AI usage is expected to increase strongly
GenAI & agentic AI may put existing software and services at risk…
… but it also benefits a number of downstream industries
… and those companies report strong top-line revenue growth

3. Fundamentals of agentic AI

Chapter overview: Fundamentals of agentic AI
Agentic AI extends GenAI from producing outputs to pursuing goals
How AI agents work
The agentic AI evolution: From tool-using workflows toward autonomous and multi-agent systems
Deep-dive: Multi-agent systems
Example software development: From traditional development to multi-agent software development
Illustrative operating model: Humans and specialized agents collaborate across supply-chain workflows
Impact on AI hardware/inference: Agentic AI extends task horizons but can increase inference consumption per completed workflow
In order to build agents, it requires: (1) a framework, (2) a builder environment, and (3) an orchestration platform

4. Market and competitive landscape overview

Chapter overview: Market and competitive landscape overview
The GenAI & agentic AI landscape
GenAI & agentic AI market scope: What is included and what is not (3 parts)
GenAI & agentic AI market: Total market overview
GenAI & agentic AI market: Segment mix shift
GenAI & agentic AI market: Quarterly view
General drivers and inhibitors for the generative & agentic AI market
Competitive landscape: Market share overview
How the main players are positioned across different market segments

5. AI accelerators

Chapter overview: AI accelerators
AI accelerators overview
Types of AI accelerators and their capabilities
Selected AI accelerator power consumption
Training vs. inference chips (2 parts)
Data center infrastructure for AI acceleration (4 parts)
AI Accelerator market (5 parts)
Leading AI accelerator companies
AI accelerators: NVIDIA (4 parts)
AI accelerators: AMD (4 parts)
AI accelerators: Broadcom (4 parts)
AI accelerators: Intel (4 parts)
AI accelerators: Cerebras (4 parts)

6. Foundation models

Chapter overview: Foundation models
The basis of foundation models: The transformer architecture
How input is processed in transformer models
How inference generates outputs
How models are optimized
Where model development is heading: Reasoning and world models
Open models: Open source vs. open weights
Importance of small language models
Model development is no longer a one-way race to scale
Foundation models market (5 parts)
Leading foundation model companies
Popular open-weight models that are often not directly monetized
Foundation models: OpenAI (4 parts)
Foundation models: Anthropic (4 parts)

7. AI cloud & platforms

Chapter overview: AI cloud & platforms
Cloud AI & platforms: The AI platform stack (2 parts)
Databases & data platforms (2 parts)
Vector vs. graph databases
IaaS & GPU cloud platforms (2 parts)
FM development platforms (5 parts)
AI runtime & operations platforms: Overview
Agentic dev. & orch. platforms (4 parts)
AI cloud & platforms market (6 parts)
AI cloud & platforms key players
Key players market share
AI cloud & platforms: Microsoft (4 parts)
AI cloud & platforms: AWS (4 parts)
AI cloud & platforms: GCP (4 parts)

8. AI applications

Chapter overview: AI applications
AI applications market (3 parts)
AI applications competitive landscape: Top applications
AI applications: Horizontal categories and industry verticals
AI application categories: Size and growth
AI applications competitive landscape: Breakdown
Top movers took market share
Widely used AI apps that are currently not monetized

9. AI services

Chapter overview: AI services
AI services market (5 parts)
Enterprise spending on AI services
Key players market share
AI services: Accenture (3 parts)
AI services: IBM (3 parts)
AI services: Deloitte (3 parts)

10. End-user adoption

Overarching takeaways of the GenAI & agentic AI project analysis: What has changed versus prior years
Analysis of GenAI & agentic AI projects: Methodology
Analysis of GenAI & agentic AI projects: Definitions (2 parts)
Analysis of GenAI & agentic AI projects: Analysis overview
GenAI & agentic AI projects by department
GenAI & agentic AI projects by activity
Set of GenAI & agentic AI sample projects from the database
GenAI & agentic AI projects by activity: Adoption now strong in primary activities
GenAI & agentic AI projects by industry
GenAI & agentic AI projects by industry & department
GenAI & agentic AI projects by type of GenAI and agentic AI
GenAI & agentic AI projects by autonomy
Our view on GenAI adoption by industry: Adoption has crossed the chasm into mainstream
Our view on agentic AI adoption by industry: Technology companies are leading the way, but the chasm has not been crossed yet
Adoption examples: Chapter overview
Overarching insights from the GenAI & agentic AI adoption examples
Example 1: AI at Thomson Reuters (8 parts)
Example 2: Iberdrola (3 parts)
Example 3: Baker Hughes (3 parts)
Example 4: Total Energies Italia (2 parts)
Example 5: CASMT (Changzhou) Automation (2 parts)
Example 6: Merck
Example 7: Autodesk (3 parts)

11. Market & technology trends

Key trends in the GenAI & agentic AI landscape
Trend 1 (2 parts)
Trend 2
Trend 3
Trend 4 (2 parts)
Trend 5
Trend 6
Trend 7 (2 parts)
Trend 8 (2 parts)

12. Adoption challenges & AI bubble risk

Chapter overview: Adoption challenges & AI bubble risk
Challenge 1
Challenge 2 (2 parts)
Challenge 3 (2 parts)
Challenge 4 (2 parts)
AI bubble risk overview
Enterprise ROI bubble: Is there ROI in enterprise AI?
Enterprise ROI bubble: Enterprise AI renewals as a leading indicator
AI capability expectation bubble: How fast will capability improve?
CapEx payback bubble: Does the revenue justify the CapEx?
CapEx payback bubble: The bull case
CapEx payback bubble: The bear case
CapEx payback bubble: The bear case – Circular financing deep dive
CapEx payback bubble: What our model says
CapEx payback bubble: What history tells us
Equity valuation bubble: Where do we stand?
Overall verdict: Are we in a bubble? The IoT Analytics view

13. Methodology & market definitions

Research Methodology
Definition of technology stack
Definition of industries for the market model & outlook
Definition of industries used to classify projects in the end user adoption chapter
Countries in APAC
Countries in EMEA
Countries in the Americas