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The Gartner® Hype CycleTM for Agentic AI provides the strategic framework to navigate this landscape with confidence. Request your complimentary copy today.

What You'll Learn:

  • The Real Adoption Picture - Where enterprises actually stand in their AI agent journey and what separates organizations moving toward transformative change from those still focused on incremental automation.

  • Multi-agent Systems - Why coordinating distributed agents is both the greatest opportunity and the greatest challenge in agentic AI and what a production-ready multi-agent architecture actually requires.

  • The Foundational Technologies to Build On - Which emerging innovations — from World Models to Context Graphs to agent orchestration — are worth prioritizing, and which are still too early to bet on.

  • Beyond the Chat Interface - How Agent Experience (AX) and human-agent collaboration workspaces are redefining what it means to interact with and remain in control of autonomous systems.

  • Governance & Security - What new approaches to risk, policy enforcement, and runtime controls are required when agents make decisions with real-world consequences.

  • The Protocol Changing Everything - How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is setting new standards for how agents exchange context and access resources across your existing systems.

Openstream.ai is a Sample Provider in this report for Multiagent Systems (MAS).

Gartner, Hype Cycle for Agentic AI, By Rajesh Kandaswamy, Leinar Ramos, Gary Olliffe, Tom Coshow, Pieter den Hamer, Erick Brethenoux, 2 April 2026. Gartner and Hype Cycle are trademarks of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates.  Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose

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