How to approach data diversity in the age of Agentic AI and GenAI

By Srinivasa Kattuboina, Head of Data & Analytics Practice, EPAM India

For much of the enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) journey, scale was treated as a proxy for intelligence. The prevailing assumption was simple: feed systems more data and outcomes would improve. This approach worked when AI was primarily reactive, focused on classification, prediction and process automation. The rise of generative and agentic AI, however, has exposed the limits of that thinking.

In today’s AI landscape, intelligence is shaped as much by relevance and context as by volume. Large, uncurated datasets often introduce noise, thereby diluting model performance. Modern AI systems deliver better outcomes when trained on data that is intentionally aligned to a specific business use case, domain and operating environment. As AI agents move from forecasting outcomes to executing autonomous actions, the quality and purpose of data become central to system reliability.

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