Adoption has more than doubled since 2017, though the proportion of organizations using AI¹ has plateaued between 50 and 60 percent for the past few years. A set of companies seeing the highest financial returns from AI continue to pull ahead of competitors. The results show these leaders making larger investments in AI, engaging in increasingly advanced practices known to enable scale and faster AI development, and showing signs of faring better in the tight market for AI talent. On talent, for the first time, we looked closely at AI hiring and upskilling. The data show that there is significant room to improve diversity on AI teams, and, consistent with other studies, diverse teams correlate with outstanding performance.

Table of Contents

1. Five years in review: AI adoption, impact, and spend
2. Mind the gap: AI leaders pulling ahead
3. AI talent tales: New hot roles, continued diversity woes
4. About the research

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