AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

Almost all of the Enterprise/Corporate AI offerings are a significant step in cost that needs to bear actual fruit in order to be worthwhile, not to mention the compliance and security requirements most places have in order to get these things approved. We know there are use cases where AI makes sense, but we also know that there are many things that it can't do (at least right now). It makes sense that people aren't plunking down large amounts of money on this stuff, especially since the state-of-the-art so-often changes. What if you buy Claude and something new comes along, or ChatGPT gets better? It's difficult to make these purchasing decisions when products are static, and much more so when everything changes on a bi-weekly cadence.

The tickers for months are not obvious to me, and since its a 6-week moving average and not point in time, the numbers are a bit hard to intuitively grasp.

To me it looks like the drop is harder since averaging smooths out the points, so end of july 2025 the adoption is not exactly 12%, but probably more like 8%, where its closer to end of 2023.

It seems big tech is putting a big break on AI tooling, for now.

The company I work for just got 5k lic for 2 years.

I reckon about 80% of use AT LEAST is just mundane, search engine like use.

maybe a bit of document analysis.

Does it mean the number of companies newly adopting AI is dropping? That could mean that its just saturated so of course it would drop? Unless I am reading this graph wrong and it's actually the same companies that are now no longer adopting AI?

Personally i believe it will stay with us, for a long time. The benefit is real.