Autonomous AI and Autonomous Agents Global Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2034

This report describes and explains the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market and covers 2019-2024, termed the historic period, and 2024-2029, 2034F termed the forecast period. The report evaluates the market across each region and for the major economies within each region.

The global autonomous AI and autonomous agents market reached a value of nearly $6.96 billion in 2024, having grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.60% since 2019. The market is expected to grow from $6.96 billion in 2024 to $41.37 billion in 2029 at a rate of 42.79%. The market is then expected to grow at a CAGR of 42.32% from 2029 and reach $241.54 billion in 2034.

Growth in the historic period resulted from surge in cloud computing, rising cybersecurity threats, surge in financial services and favorable government initiatives. Factors that negatively affected growth in the historic period were the data privacy and protection laws and high initial cost of AI implementation.

Going forward, growth of the internet of things (IoT) devices, expansion of e-commerce and retail services, rising demand for 24/7 customer support and virtual assistants and growing automation in industries support will drive growth. Factor that could hinder the growth of the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market in the future include complex integration with legacy systems resistance from labor unions and workforce and impact of trade war and tariff.

North America was the largest region in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market, accounting for 40.66% or $2.83 billion of the total in 2024. It was followed by Asia-Pacific, Western Europe and then the other regions. Going forward, the fastest-growing regions in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market will be Asia-Pacific and Middle East where growth will be at CAGRs of 51.23% and 47.89% respectively. These will be followed by Africa and South America where the markets are expected to grow at CAGRs of 46.10% and 44.99% respectively.

The global autonomous AI and autonomous agents market is fairly fragmented, with a large number of small players operating in the market. The top 10 competitors in the market made up 18.39% of the total market in 2023. Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.) was the largest competitor with a 4.22% share of the market, followed by OpenAI with 2.36%, Microsoft Corporation with 2.21%, International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, with 1.79%, Amazon Web Services (AWS), with 1.63%, Moveworks with 1.63%, Baidu, Inc. with 1.21%, Alibaba Group Holding Limited with 1.15%, NVIDIA Corporation with 1.10%. and Oracle Corp. with 1.09%.

The autonomous AI and autonomous agents market is segmented by offering into hardware, software and services. The software market was the largest segment of the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by offering, accounting for 49.30% or $3.43 billion of the total in 2024. Going forward, the services segment is expected to be the fastest growing segment in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by offering, at a CAGR of 51.74% during 2024-2029.

The autonomous AI and autonomous agents market is segmented by technology into machine learning, natural language processing, context awareness and computer vision. The machine learning market was the largest segment of the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by technology, accounting for 41.33% or $2.88 billion of the total in 2024. Going forward, the computer vision segment is expected to be the fastest growing segment in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by technology, at a CAGR of 48.99% during 2024-2029.

The autonomous AI and autonomous agents market is segmented by vertical into banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), retail and ecommerce, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, energy and utilities, automotive, transportations and logistics, government and defense, media and entertainment and other verticals. The banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) market was the largest segment of the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by vertical, accounting for 21.40% or $1.49 billion of the total in 2024. Going forward, the government and defense segment is expected to be the fastest growing segment in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by vertical, at a CAGR of 51.98% during 2024-2029.

The top opportunities in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by offering will arise in the software segment, which will gain $19.99 billion of global annual sales by 2029. The top opportunities in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by technology will arise in the machine learning segment, which will gain $13.71 billion of global annual sales by 2029. The top opportunities in the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market segmented by vertical will arise in the retail and ecommerce segment, which will gain $6.57 billion of global annual sales by 2029. The autonomous AI and autonomous agents market size will gain the most in the USA at $10.07 billion.

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To take advantage of the opportunities, the analyst recommends the autonomous AI and autonomous agents market companies to focus on advancing autonomous intelligence suites for scalable enterprise use, focus on advancing multi-agent system integration, focus on enhancing human-agent collaboration to augment business operations, focus on expanding intelligent agent platforms for enterprise automation, focus on scaling autonomous enterprise AI suites, focus on advancing self-learning AI agents for cybersecurity operations, focus on advancing fully autonomous customer service solutions, focus on expanding scalable AI data platforms to accelerate adoption, focus on the services segment to maximize growth, expand in emerging markets, continue to focus on developed markets, focus on expanding multi-channel global distribution, focus on tiered value-based pricing to capture diverse customer segments, focus on clear use case communication and targeted outreach, focus on strategic partnerships and real-time demonstrations and focus on building specialized public sector expertise and trust.

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