Oracle AI World 2025 felt different. Not just because the event got a new name, or because it took over Las Vegas with thousands of attendees, or even because there were two new CEOs at the helm. It felt different because Oracle finally showed what it looks like when a company built on enterprise data decides to go all-in on AI.
Most people still think of Oracle as “the database company.” And sure—that’s part of its DNA. But this year’s event made one thing very clear:Oracle is no longer just storing enterprise data. It’s activating it. With AI. Everywhere.
Below is my take on the biggest announcements, the boldest ideas, and why Oracle AI World 2025 may be one of the company’s most important conferences in years.
Big Announcements You Should Know About
AI Agent Marketplace
This was one of the most talked-about launches—an online store of pre-built AI agents that plug directly into Fusion Apps.
And these aren’t little chatbots. These are real workflow-level agents built by partners like Deloitte, Accenture, Stripe, IBM, and others.
Think of it like an App Store, but for enterprise AI automation.
AI Agent Studio & Agent Hub
AI Agent Studio is basically the design room where you build or fine-tune AI agents for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. You don’t need to be a hardcore developer—it's built for no-code/low-code creation.
You can start with Oracle’s pre-built agent templates or build your own from scratch. These agents can do everything from predicting equipment failures to summarizing meetings to handling procurement tasks.
Because it’s tightly connected to Fusion Apps, the agents can securely tap into real business data and take real actions. Developers and admins use the Studio to build and deploy, while business users simply interact with the agents through AI Chat or Ask Oracle right inside their Fusion screens.
If the Studio is where you build, Agent Hub is where you run and scale.
Agent Hub, part of OCI Generative AI, helps enterprises manage, monitor, secure, and expand their AI agents across the organization. It includes an AI Agent Marketplace (so you can pull in new, pre-built agent capabilities from Oracle partners) and support for a wider range of LLMs to power more sophisticated behaviors.
Database 26ai: Oracle Rewrites Its Engine for the AI Era
The upgrade from 23ai to 26ai isn’t incremental—it’s a reinvention.
Key takeaways:
- Vector and RAG are built into the engine
- Iceberg support brings openness
- It reduces data duplication
- It enables in-database AI agents
- It’s the foundation for Oracle’s new AI lakehouse
Some people say Oracle is behind Snowflake or Databricks in vectors/RAG.
But Oracle made a simple point:
If your entire business runs on Oracle data, do you want to move it to a new AI store…
or just bring AI to where the data already lives?
OCI Infrastructure & The Zettascale Supercomputer
OCI Dedicated Region25: Bringing an entire OCI region into as little as three racks for sovereign cloud, low-latency, and regulatory control.
NVIDIA Zettascale10 AI Supercomputer: A stunning commitment to scale, announcing a potential world-largest cloud-based supercomputer with hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs and 16 zettaFLOPS peak performance, built on Oracle’s low-latency Acceleron RoCE network.
Oracle unveiled its new Autonomous AI Lakehouse—open, multicloud, Iceberg-native, and deeply integrated with Database 26ai.
Everyone is building a lakehouse these days, but Oracle’s spin is unique:
Most vendors approach AI from the unstructured-storage angle.
Oracle approaches it from the structured-enterprise-data angle.
Fusion Apps: AI at No Extra Cost (Yes, Really)
Here’s the part that shocked a lot of people:
Oracle is bundling 600+ AI agents and 100+ new AI features directly into Fusion Apps for no additional license fee.
No AI surcharge.
No per-user pricing.
No “AI edition.”
Final Thoughts: Oracle Is Playing the Long Game
Oracle AI World 2025 felt like a company fully aligned around AI—from Larry’s long-term industry vision to Clay’s infrastructure strategy to Sicilia’s application intelligence.
If you’re an enterprise already in the Oracle ecosystem, the value story is compelling:
- AI agents included
- AI in the database
- AI in the lakehouse
- AI in every Fusion workflow
- AI-ready cloud infrastructure
- Multicloud flexibility
Oracle AI World 2025 made one thing clear: Oracle is no longer just keeping up in the AI race—it’s shaping its own lane.
Adding some of my favorite photos from Oracle AI World 2025. Speaking at the event was truly a highlight for me.
Co-presented "Oracle AI Database Cloud Service: What's New and What's Next" alongside Binoy Sukumaran and Tushar Pandit.
Guest Speaker : Modern DevX OraOperator + AI Centric App Development with Oracle Database 23ai
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