From machine learning operations and organizational change to ethical considerations and emerging use cases, this is QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey’s latest thinking on how organizations can most effectively and responsibly use AI to create business value.
Insights on Artificial Intelligence
Featured Insights
The athlete’s mindset for digital and AI transformation
AI, gen AI, and agentic AI have raised the stakes for digital transformation. Insights on how athletes train can help companies address the challenges.
Interview
The case for liquid foundation models
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Ramin Hasani, CEO and cofounder of Liquid AI, discusses his company’s journey and impact and how the company’s much smaller models are tailor-made for devices, enabling the physical AI world.
Podcast
Elad Gil on the future of AI
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Elad Gil of Gil Capital shares his view on the state of AI, where it’s going, and what’s unknown.
Article
Accelerating Europe’s AI adoption: The role of sovereign AI
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By playing to its strengths, the continent could create an AI ecosystem that accelerates adoption, improves global competitiveness, and reignites economic growth and prosperity.
Article
The AI reckoning: How boards can evolve
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How can boards best help guide companies through the competitive dynamics unleashed by AI?
Essential Knowledge
Report
Seizing the agentic AI advantage
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A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agents.
Report
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025
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Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2025? Our annual tech trends report highlights the latest technology breakthroughs, talent trends, use cases, and their potential impact on companies across sectors.
Survey
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
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Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
Report
The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
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Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.
Industry perspectives
Blog Post
How AI could reinvent film and TV production
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AI could transform every stage of the creative production process from script to screen. But it may alter not only how content is made but also who gets to make it.
Blog Post
McKinsey helps pioneer an AI-native approach in dispute resolution
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The American Arbitration Association–International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR) announced the launch of its AI-native arbitrator, developed in collaboration with QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey.
Article
Remapping travel with agentic AI
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Agentic AI could upend the travel industry. Travel and hospitality organizations should explore how agentic can help catalyze AI’s transformative potential.
Article
Reimagining life science enterprises with agentic AI
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Agentic AI is poised to boost the benefits from AI by changing its role from tool to coworker and catalyzing an end-to-end reimagining of the life sciences value chain.
DATA SCIENCE FOR PRACTITIONERS
Insights from our Medium blog by data science professionals, for data science professionals.
QuantumBlack Medium blog post
Unlocking the value of clean, trusted data
Just as water keeps cities and industries alive, data keeps modern organizations moving. McKinsey research shows that data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, and 19 times more likely to be profitable. Data is crucial to the decision-making that supports innovation, but like water, it only creates value when it flows clearly and reliably. When data flows are opaque or unreliable, even the most advanced risk engines and AI models cannot be trusted. If data is flawed, every decision downstream is compromised.