Building on Goldman's estimate that AI adoption across corporate America currently stands at roughly 20.6% and could rise to 24% by year-end, a Guggenheim Securities survey of 150 large-enterprise IT professionals found that 81% of respondents have already deployed AI agents. Anthropic and OpenAI are leading adoption among AI-native platforms, reinforcing the view that the enterprise chatbot and frontier-model battle is increasingly becoming a two-pony race.
The survey found that enterprise adoption of AI is quickly accelerating, with 81% of respondents already deploying chatbots.
About 42% of employees actively use AI for roughly 22% of the workday, resulting in an estimated 18% productivity gain.
According to respondents, AI accounts for an average of roughly 19% of corporate IT budgets, with spending concentrated in software development, data analytics, and IT operations. About half of respondents expect AI to become a separate budget line, while 37% of those firms plan to fund it in part through incremental spending beyond existing IT allocations.
The survey also provided more evidence of token cost concerns among respondents:
On average, respondents anticipate that AI will have a positive impact on their company's operating m
