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Stanford's AI Index reports that organisational AI adoption kept climbing in 2025, reaching 88% of surveyed organisations
Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index report on the economy found that 88% of surveyed organisations had adopted AI in 2025, though it noted that use of AI agents was still early. The report also found that generative AI was used in at least one business function at 70% of organisations.
Verified 2026-08-08
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- Stanford's 2026 AI Index, citing McKinsey's 2025 survey, breaks down AI-agent deployment by business function. Even in IT, the function with the most agent activity, the share of organisations reporting no AI-agent use at all in 2025 was still 69% of organizations report zero AI-agent use in IT, the business function with the heaviest agent activity
- Stanford's 2026 AI Index reports that organizations' use of generative AI specifically, not just AI overall, grew sharply in 2025: the share of organizations that regularly use generative AI in at least one business function reached 79%, up from 71% in 2024
- Stanford's 2026 AI Index compared generative AI's adoption curve after its mass-market debut to that of earlier transformative technologies, and found generative AI reached 53% population adoption within three years, faster than the PC or the internet
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