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the magic quadrant is essentially a stack ranking of 'how much money are you paying us vs how much money we think we can get out of you'.

that's how you end up in scenarios where some shit IBM product is leading the chart against its objectively superior competitors.

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A few months ago I saw one of Gartner's AI Magic Quadrants (there are several) and it had IBM, Oracle, and a few companies I'd never heard of in the Leaders quadrant and OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the bottom left. Obviously companies like OpenAI and Google have absolutely no need to pay Gartner for anything. But how is this actually considered credible research by people in non-tech companies? You'd have to be living in a cave to not know who is really leading in AI.

> there are several

If by “several” you mean well over 100, then yes.

Over 100 just for the AI market?

It wouldn't surprise me that much. But no, I meant total.

Sure is magic for Gartner Inc.'s revenues... not so much for buyers.

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