AI Statistics 2026

88% of surveyed organizations used AI in 2025

44% of survey respondents say AI is scaling across their whole enterprise, up from 38% a year earlier

56% of respondents say their organizations use AI in three or more business functions

40% of respondents at large organizations report scaling AI agents, up from 27% the year before

32% of organizations decided not to buy at least one software product because they could build it with agentic coding tools

19.8% of U.S. businesses used AI as of May 2026, the national rate in the Census Bureau survey

37% of U.S. firms with at least 250 employees reported using AI in their operations

20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used AI technologies in 2025, up from 13.5% in 2024

78% of the U.S. labor force works at firms that have adopted AI, by an employment weighted estimate

1 billion or more people use ChatGPT every week as of August 2026

50 million or more people pay for a ChatGPT subscription as of March 2026

34% of U.S. adults say they have ever used ChatGPT, about double the share in 2023

58% of U.S. adults under 30 have used ChatGPT, up from 33% in 2023

28% of employed U.S. adults say they use ChatGPT for work

53% of the population had adopted generative AI within three years of its launch, faster than the PC or the internet

$172 billion a year is the estimated value U.S. consumers get from generative AI tools as of early 2026

41% of U.S. workers use generative AI for work, per the Real-Time Population Survey in November 2025

58% of employees worldwide used AI at work on a semiregular or regular basis in 2025

$2.7 trillion is the forecast for worldwide AI spending in 2026, up 49.5% from 2025

117% is the forecast 2026 growth in spending on generative AI models

$89.0 billion in data center revenue for Nvidia in its quarter ended July 2026, up 117% from a year earlier

$2B in revenue per month for OpenAI as of March 2026

$47 billion in run-rate revenue for Anthropic, crossed in May 2026

$1 billion annualized revenue run rate for ChatGPT Ads, reached in under 200 days after launch

$150 billion or more in annual capital spending was reported by Google in 2025 as cloud providers built out AI capacity

half a trillion dollars was invested in data centres worldwide in 2024, nearly double the 2022 level

$285.9 billion of private AI investment went into U.S. companies in 2025, more than 23 times the amount in China

127.5% was the growth in private AI investment in 2025, the fastest growing type of corporate AI investment

200% or more was the growth in generative AI private funding, which took nearly half of all private AI funding

1,953 newly funded AI companies were in the U.S. in 2025, more than 10 times the next country

$122 billion in committed capital was raised by OpenAI in one round, at an $852 billion post money valuation

$65 billion was raised by Anthropic in its Series H round, at a $965 billion post money valuation

$20.4 billion is what the U.S. government put into AI contracts and grants from 2013 to 2024, far below private investment

$184 billion was deployed into AI firms by Chinese government guidance funds between 2000 and 2023, by estimate

56% average wage premium for workers with AI skills in 2024, double the 25% of the year before

66% faster is the rate at which the skills employers seek are changing in jobs most exposed to AI

3x higher growth in revenue per employee was seen in industries most exposed to AI (27% vs 9%)

41% of employers plan to reduce their workforce as AI automates certain tasks

39% of respondents expect AI to reduce total employment at their organization in the coming year, up from 32%

80% of respondents say AI has improved their individual productivity

nearly 20% is how far employment of software developers aged 22 to 25 has fallen since 2024

26% productivity gain from AI is reported by studies of software development, with 14% to 15% in customer support

64% of Americans expect AI to lead to fewer jobs over the next 20 years, while only 5% expect more

near 100% is where top scores on the SWE-bench Verified coding benchmark reached in 2025, up from 60% a year earlier

66.3% success rate for AI agents on OSWorld computer tasks, up from roughly 12%

50.6% is how often the top AI model read analog clocks correctly, against 90.1% for humans

280-fold drop in the inference cost of a GPT-3.5 level system between November 2022 and October 2024

17.1 million H100 equivalents is the global AI compute capacity, growing 3.3x a year since 2022

29.6 GW of power capacity in AI data centers, comparable to New York state at peak demand

415 TWh of electricity was used by data centres in 2024, around 1.5% of world consumption

945 TWh is the projected data centre electricity use by 2030, more than double the 2024 level

1.9 GW of compute was available to OpenAI in 2025, up from 0.2 GW in 2023

50% of Americans are more concerned than excited about the growing use of AI in daily life, up from 37% in 2021

57% of Americans rate the societal risks of AI as high, while 25% rate its benefits as high

76% of Americans say it is extremely or very important to be able to tell if content was made by AI or people

73% of AI experts expect a positive impact on how people do their jobs, against 23% of the U.S. public

31% of Americans trust their own government to regulate AI, the lowest of any country surveyed

59% of people worldwide say AI products offer more benefits than drawbacks, while 52% say they make them nervous

41% of Americans say federal AI regulation will not go far enough, against 27% who say it will go too far

362 documented AI incidents were recorded in 2025, up from 233 in 2024