Reflections from Oracle AI World 2025

I know… I'm a bit late in giving my thoughts on Oracle AI World. Perhaps I'll blame that on only working part time these days while I tackle my diving around the world bucket list…

I’d planned to call this blog a round up but there was too much happening at the event to do it justice. There are many fantastic commentaries about what was covered—have a look at one of my favorites in this short video from Bob Evans from Cloud Wars.

My colleague Divija Kalluri published a blog about the AI World tech sessions earlier this week. I love the fresh approach of a graduate like Divija, unclouded by the way we've always done things. They challenge our thinking, which is a powerful part of any team. I look forward to working with her more in this area of AI.

Highlights from Oracle include the additions announced for 26ai. It comes simply with a patch. No upgrade, no new certifications, it just arrives. Our technical gurus are assessing what this means for our customers—doing more with their data, and using Oracle AI services to address business challenges in ways they could previously only dream of.

Let’s have a look at two examples

In his keynote, Oracle CEO Mike Sicilla talked about how Biofy expect to save 2,000 lives in Brazil through AI powered life sciences. I had the privilege of meeting Paulo Perez, the CEO, and his ambition goes beyond his own country. The innovation is a pen drive sized gadget that obtains DNA from a blood sample. It then uses Oracle powered AI and Biofy’s own LLM to analyze the DNA to identify an infection strain to quickly establish the optimum antibiotic.

This is profound. Today, testing blood in a laboratory takes days. The broad-spectrum antibiotics initially prescribed may not help, and by the time the infection strain and correct medication is identified, the infection is worse or even fatal. The Biofy solution cuts the process from 5 days to 4 hours. Read about it here.

Rappi is the South American version of Uber Eats. They’ve scaled enormously on the Oracle platform, but their traditional search was creaking at the seams. Moving to a vector search is faster and provides better suggestions to customers.

Now let’s take a look at apps

There’s been a lot of focus on the technology, and rightly so as it powers AI across the Oracle stack, but I'm an apps girl at heart, so let’s have a look at that.

The new Fusion home page introduced by Jenny Lam is amazing, bringing AI to the heart of our applications experience. It surfaces what users need with AI, including understanding what AI is doing for them at any point in time. With Oracle and partners delivering AI agents at pace, this will be well received.

The introduction of the workflow agents gives even more power across your applications. Have a look at this powerful independent commentary from Stacia Garr.

At the event, there was a lot of emphasis on how AI is embedded, and rapidly improving, and how AI will eventually help us build AI.

Integration is key for any application landscape, and I spoke on an Integration Cloud panel about how we’re helping a customer modernize their B2B landscape. The AI enhancements released for OIC now mean that instead of reusing an existing component as an accelerator, any we create simply become selectable tools.

Oracle is now facilitating AI from all their offerings—perhaps apart from on-premises, which I’ll discuss in my next blog.

Bring us your challenges!

When we talk to customers about Oracle AI, it’s about finding the AI use case that will make tangible business impact.

We’re now inviting you to bring us your business challenges and let us show you what Inoapps and Oracle can do!