bleeding edge

American  

1. the most advanced stage of a technology, art, etc., usually experimental and risky.

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bleeding edge British  

noun

1. the very forefront of technological development

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Etymology

Origin of bleeding edge

1980–85; patterned on cutting edge or leading edge

Example Sentences

At the bleeding edge of AI, any new feature has the potential to evaporate an incumbent’s lead overnight.

From MarketWatch

Lamphere, it would seem, was on the bleeding edge of a new kind of therapy.

From Slate

And it might not be on the bleeding edge of fashion trends.

From The Wall Street Journal

As an MIT computer-science professor, Regina Barzilay was used to living on the bleeding edge of innovation, teaching computers to understand words in the nascent field of natural language processing.

From MarketWatch

"Especially as we work in an environment at the bleeding edge of technology - we're kind of used to things changing," he says.

From BBC