State of AI in Business 2025 Report
A bit outdated report - as of July 2025.
Interesting points:
- Everybody says they adopt AI but the measurable impact is concentrated mostly in Tech and Media; only ~5% of enterprises have AI integrated in their workflows.
- Employees tend to prefer personal AI tools (like ChatGPT) over enterprise ones because they're simpler and offer a better user experience.
- The most common complaints about AI tools are lack of memory, losing context (and need to re-provide it manually), they do not learn and account for edge cases correctly. As a result, AI is often used for short tasks with fast feedback loops; humans are preferred for long-term and complex ones.
- Tools built by external contractors reportedly succeed about twice as often as internally developed ones (problems are better seen from the outside?)
- The corporate mindset wins - instead of long transformational projects with unclear short-term payoffs, managers tend to invest into ones with a quick and tangible outcome (and often they are less successful).
Also the report contains a mention about an interesting MIT's Project Iceberg which simulates U.S. economy with AI agents to get understanding about AI transformation effects.
