AI Week 2025

Artificial intelligence has been at the forefront of the entire tech industry for several years now as the biggest IT companies and hottest startups are pouring R&D into the technology.

For 2025’s Artificial Intelligence Week, CRN is diving deep into various topics around the AI opportunity for solution providers. This includes a look the rise of AI agents, the growth of artificial intelligence in health care, the cybersecurity concerns around AI and the reimagining of the customer experience in the age of AI.

7 New, Cutting-Edge AI Chips From Nvidia And Rivals In 2025
While Nvidia remains at the top of the AI computing hierarchy, several other companies are vying to grab a sizeable piece of the market with AI chips that either go head-to-head with Nvidia’s fastest GPUs or go after adjacent opportunities like the edge.

Reimagining Customer Experience In The Age Of AI
‘AI in the contact center and UC is here, and it’s making massive, massive changes in there,’ one solution provider tells CRN on AI’s impact on customer experience and the opportunities for partners.

Paging Dr. Agent: Solution Providers Bring Health Care AI To Life
“The most important thing for AI in health care is what’s most important in health care–which is better patient outcomes,” Saturn Business Systems CTO Mike St. Amour said.

How AWS And Google Cloud Create Agentic AI Opportunities For Partners
AWS and Google Cloud are launching a slew of new agentic AI innovation in 2025. Here’s how partners are cashing in.

From ’Shadow AI’ To Agentic Anarchy, AI-SPM Is Key To Visibility: Experts
AI security posture management is about ‘providing you visibility into what [AI] technologies are being used and what the risk is around these technologies,’ says Orca Security CEO Gil Geron. Solution and service provider partners such as Trace3 are finding major opportunities in the space.

Other Recent AI Coverage From CRN

HPE Debuts ‘Bold’ AI Era Brand With New Logo, Launches Massive Rebranding Campaign
‘It’s a pretty big change, a big deal,’ says HPE Vice President of Brand, Culture and Creative Paula Berg. ‘Our name as a company remains Hewlett Packard Enterprise of course, but our new logo we think mirrors the shorthand that people use to talk about us, most people just say HPE.’

Google Cloud’s OpenAI Deal ‘A Win For TPU Chips,’ Microsoft Partner Says
‘Make no mistake, this is also a win for Google Cloud against Microsoft Azure,” says one Microsoft partner top executive. ‘[OpenAI] has continued, all year long, to loosen its dependency on Microsoft.’

AI Semiconductors, VMware Driving Broadcom To New Heights: CEO Hock Tan
‘The whole premise behind going towards custom accelerators continues. It's not a matter of cost alone. It is that, as custom accelerators get used and get developed on a roadmap with any particular hyperscaler, that's a learning curve on how they could optimize the way the algorithms on their large language models get written and tied to silicon. And that ability to do so, it's a huge value-add [in] increasing algorithms that can drive the LLMs to higher and higher performance,’ says Broadcom President and CEO Hock Tan.

Dell’s AI Charge: Think Faster, Act Smarter
In an age where ‘AI becomes as essential as electricity,’ Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell says his company is setting up partners and customers for success.