The 8 numbers that explain what’s really happening with AI adoption

There is no shortage of evidence that companies are adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI). Every quarter brings another survey showing that more organizations are experimenting with generative AI, putting models into production, giving employees access to copilots, or increasing their spending on the technology. At the same time, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting that the economic impact of all this activity remains much less significant than the level of investment would imply. Both observations can be true, and when the numbers are put side by side, the apparent contradiction becomes easier to understand. Therefore, a more useful way to think about the current state of enterprise AI is not to ask whether companies are adopting it. They clearly are. The more important question is whether companies are changing their operations quickly enough to turn widespread access to AI into any meaningful business outcomes.