AI Statistics 2026: 93 Verified Numbers (All Sourced)

This page collects the most important artificial intelligence statistics of 2026 in one place — 93 numbers covering investment, model capabilities, adoption, consumer usage, energy, jobs, regulation, and the web itself. Every statistic below was verified against its original source before publication, and each entry links to that source. We update this page as major new data lands.

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AI market size and investment

Follow the money: investment, valuations, and capital spending.

Global corporate AI investment hit $581.7 billion in 2025, up 130% from the prior year. (Full year 2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
Global private AI investment reached $344.7 billion in 2025, an increase of 127.5% from 2024. (Full year 2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
U.S. private AI investment reached $285.9 billion in 2025 — 23.1 times more than China's $12.4 billion, the next-highest country. (Full year 2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will total $2.59 trillion in 2026, a 47% increase year over year. (2026 forecast (published May 2026).) Source: Gartner (reported by CIO Dive)
Venture funding to AI startups reached $211 billion globally in 2025, up 85% year over year from $114 billion in 2024 and accounting for roughly half of all venture capital deployed. (Full year 2025.) Source: Crunchbase News
Foundational AI startups raised $178 billion across just 24 deals in the first quarter of 2026 — double the $88.9 billion they raised across 66 deals in all of 2025. (Q1 2026 (as of March 31, 2026).) Source: Crunchbase News
OpenAI's $40 billion SoftBank-led round, announced March 31, 2025, was the biggest venture investment ever at the time — before OpenAI topped it with a megaround announced in February 2026 that reached $122 billion by the end of Q1 2026. (March 2025 round; follow-on round as of March 31, 2026.) Source: Crunchbase News
Anthropic raised a $30 billion Series G in early 2026 at a $380 billion post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to nearly $64 billion since its 2021 founding. (Q1 2026.) Source: Crunchbase News
Elon Musk's xAI secured $20 billion in Series E funding in early 2026, taking its total reported debt and equity funding to $42.7 billion. (Q1 2026.) Source: Crunchbase News
The five largest U.S. cloud and AI infrastructure providers — Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — have collectively committed to spending between $660 billion and $690 billion on capital expenditure in 2026, up from roughly $380 billion in 2025. (2026 guidance (vs. 2025 actuals).) Source: Futurum Group
Individual 2026 capex guidance from the hyperscalers includes roughly $200 billion from Amazon, $175–185 billion from Alphabet, $115–135 billion from Meta, $120 billion or more from Microsoft, and $50 billion from Oracle, driven overwhelmingly by AI infrastructure. (2026 company guidance.) Source: Futurum Group (compiling company guidance)
Global M&A rebounded to a projected $4.8 trillion in deal value in 2025 (up 36% versus 2024), with technology deal value up more than 76% to $478 billion year-to-date, and AI-native companies or cited AI benefits involved in almost half of strategic technology deal value for deals larger than $500 million. (Full year 2025 (projected at publication; tech figure year-to-date).) Source: Bain & Company

AI models and capabilities

What the frontier actually looks like in benchmarks and releases.

Industry produced over 90% of notable AI models in 2025, continuing the shift of frontier model development away from academia. (2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
The United States produced 59 notable AI models in 2025, compared with China's 35. (2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
On the SWE-bench Verified coding benchmark, AI model performance rose from 60% to near 100% in a single year. (2025 (one-year change reported April 2026).) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
Frontier models gained 30 percentage points in a single year on Humanity's Last Exam, a benchmark deliberately built to be hard for AI and favorable to human experts. (2025 (one-year change reported April 2026).) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
The gap between the top U.S. and top Chinese AI models has narrowed to just 2.7% as of March 2026, after the two countries traded the lead multiple times since early 2025. (March 2026.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
The top closed AI model leads the top open-weight model by 3.3% as of March 2026, a gap that has widened from just 0.5% in August 2024. (March 2026 vs. August 2024.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
Six of the top ten models on the Arena leaderboard are now closed models, with Anthropic leading at an Elo rating of 1,503 as of March 2026. (March 2026.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
AI agent accuracy on the OSWorld computer-use benchmark rose from roughly 12% to 66.3%, showing rapid progress in agents that operate real software. (2025 (reported April 2026).) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
Google's Gemini Deep Think scored 35 points at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad — a gold-medal performance, up from a 28-point silver in 2024. (2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
Under METR's updated Time Horizon 1.1 methodology, the top-measured model (Claude Opus 4.5) can complete software tasks that take skilled humans about 320 minutes with a 50% success rate, and this 50% time horizon has been doubling roughly every 131 days since 2023. (January 2026.) Source: METR (Time Horizon 1.1)
Meta's Llama 4 Scout supports an industry-leading context window of 10 million tokens, up from 128K tokens in Llama 3. (April 5, 2025.) Source: Meta AI (official announcement)
The training compute used to create notable AI models has been doubling roughly every six months, growing at about 4.4x per year since 2010 across 428 notable models. (trend since 2010, analysis published June 2024.) Source: Epoch AI

Enterprise AI adoption

How businesses are really using AI beyond the press releases.

88% of surveyed organizations now use AI in at least one business function, according to the Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index. (Survey data from 2025, published in the 2026 AI Index.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 (Economy chapter, citing McKinsey survey)
70% of organizations have integrated generative AI into at least one business function. (Survey data from 2025, published in the 2026 AI Index.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 (Economy chapter)
Despite the agent hype, deployment of AI agents remains in the single digits across nearly all business functions. (Survey data from 2025, published in the 2026 AI Index.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 (Economy chapter)
Measured productivity gains from AI reach 26% in software development, 14-15% in customer support, and 50% in marketing output, per studies compiled in the 2026 AI Index. (Studies compiled through 2025, published in the 2026 AI Index.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 (Economy chapter)
19.8% of all US businesses reported using AI in producing goods or services as of early May 2026, with 20-23% expecting to use it within six months. (Collection period ending May 3, 2026.) Source: US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey
AI adoption climbs sharply with company size: 37% of US firms with 250 or more employees use AI, versus under 20% of firms with four or fewer employees. (Collection period ending May 3, 2026.) Source: US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey
Business AI adoption crossed the halfway mark for the first time in March 2026, with 50.4% of US businesses paying for AI tools, up from 35% a year earlier, based on Ramp's corporate card transaction data. (March 2026.) Source: Ramp AI Index
Average enterprise spending on large language models among surveyed Global 2000 companies has risen from about $4.5 million to about $7 million over two years, and executives expect it to grow another ~65% to roughly $11.6 million in 2026. (Survey published 2026, covering current spend and 2026 expectations.) Source: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) enterprise AI spend survey of 100 Global 2000 VPs and C-level executives
Enterprises invested $37 billion in generative AI in 2025, a 3.2x jump from $11.5 billion in 2024, and enterprise AI now captures 6% of the global SaaS market. (Full-year 2025.) Source: Menlo Ventures, 2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise
Coding is the runaway leader in department-level AI budgets, drawing $4.0 billion (55% of the $7.3 billion in departmental AI spend), far ahead of IT operations ($700M), marketing ($660M), and customer success ($630M); 50% of developers now use AI coding tools daily. (Full-year 2025.) Source: Menlo Ventures, 2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise
Worldwide AI spending is forecast to total $2.59 trillion in 2026, growing 47% year over year, according to Gartner's May 2026 forecast. (2026 forecast, issued May 19, 2026.) Source: Gartner (May 19, 2026 forecast), via CIO Dive coverage

Consumer AI usage

The user numbers behind the biggest consumer apps in history.

ChatGPT reached 900 million weekly active users in February 2026, up from the 800 million OpenAI reported in October 2025, announced alongside a $110 billion funding round. (February 27, 2026.) Source: OpenAI announcement, reported by TechCrunch
OpenAI reported more than 50 million paying consumer subscribers and over 9 million paying business users for ChatGPT as of its February 2026 announcement. (February 27, 2026.) Source: OpenAI announcement, reported by Search Engine Land
Google's Gemini app hit 950 million monthly active users, with daily active users tripling in the last year, per Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings. (Q2 2026 (reported July 2026).) Source: Alphabet Q2 2026 earnings (Sundar Pichai, official Google blog)
About half of U.S. adults (49%) now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024, according to a Pew Research Center survey of 5,119 adults conducted February 17-23, 2026. (February 17-23, 2026 survey (published June 17, 2026).) Source: Pew Research Center, Americans and AI 2026
44% of U.S. adults have used ChatGPT — more than double the 18% who had in July 2023 — versus 24% for Gemini, 17% for Copilot, and 14% for Meta AI, per Pew Research Center. (February 2026 survey (published June 17, 2026).) Source: Pew Research Center, Americans and AI 2026
Roughly two-thirds of U.S. teens ages 13-17 (64%) say they ever use AI chatbots, and about three-in-ten use them every day, according to Pew Research Center's survey of 1,458 teens. (September 25 - October 9, 2025 survey (published December 9, 2025).) Source: Pew Research Center, Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025
By July 2025, ChatGPT users were sending 18 billion messages per week from 700 million users — around 10% of the world's adult population — per an NBER working paper by OpenAI and Harvard researchers. (July 2025 (paper published September 2025).) Source: NBER Working Paper 34255, "How People Use ChatGPT" (Chatterji et al.)
ChatGPT's consumer plans handled about 2.63 billion messages per day in June 2025, up from 451 million a day a year earlier, and 73% of those messages were non-work-related, up from 53% in June 2024. (June 2025 (paper published September 2025).) Source: NBER Working Paper 34255, "How People Use ChatGPT" (Chatterji et al.)
ChatGPT's early gender gap has essentially closed: about 80% of active users had typically masculine first names shortly after launch, but that share fell to 48% by June 2025, and around 46% of adult messages are sent by users ages 18-25. (June 2025 (paper published September 2025).) Source: NBER Working Paper 34255, "How People Use ChatGPT" (Chatterji et al.)
The ChatGPT mobile app was downloaded 318 million times in 2025 through mid-August — 2.8 times more than in the same period of 2024 — and has generated $2 billion in lifetime global consumer spending across iOS and Android since its May 2023 launch, per Appfigures. (January through mid-August 2025.) Source: Appfigures, reported by 9to5Mac
ChatGPT was the No. 1 most-downloaded free iPhone app in the U.S. in 2025 on Apple's official year-end chart — its first year at the top — ahead of Threads, Google, TikTok, and WhatsApp, with Google Gemini ranking tenth. (Full-year 2025 (published December 10, 2025).) Source: Apple App Store year-end charts, reported by TechCrunch
Anthropic said Claude's paid subscriptions more than doubled in early 2026, with third-party credit-card panel data from Indagari showing record U.S. consumer subscriber growth between January and February 2026. (September 2025 through early March 2026 (published March 28, 2026).) Source: Anthropic spokesperson and Indagari data, reported by TechCrunch

AI energy and infrastructure

The physical footprint: power, chips, and data centers.

Global data center electricity consumption grew 17% in 2025 to reach 485 TWh, and the IEA projects it will roughly double to 950 TWh by 2030, when it will account for around 3% of global electricity demand. (2025 actual; 2030 projection (report published April 2026).) Source: IEA, Key Questions on Energy and AI
Electricity consumption from AI-focused data centres surged 50% in 2025 and is on track to triple between 2025 and 2030, growing much faster than overall data center electricity consumption. (2025 (report published April 2026).) Source: IEA, Key Questions on Energy and AI
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is forecast to exceed $1.3 trillion in 2026, growing 64% year over year — the industry's strongest growth in more than two decades — driven by AI infrastructure demand and memory price inflation. (2026 forecast (Gartner release reported April 13, 2026).) Source: Gartner forecast (reported by Evertiq)
AI semiconductors are expected to account for around 30% of total worldwide semiconductor revenue in 2026, with hyperscaler investment in AI infrastructure expected to increase by more than 50% during the year. (2026 forecast (Gartner release reported April 13, 2026).) Source: Gartner forecast (reported by Evertiq)
Nvidia's data center revenue hit a record $75.2 billion in its fiscal Q1 2027 (quarter ended April 26, 2026), up 92% from a year earlier, out of $81.6 billion in total quarterly revenue (up 85% year over year). (Quarter ended April 26, 2026 (reported May 2026).) Source: NVIDIA official earnings press release
Global AI data center power capacity rose to 29.6 gigawatts by the end of 2025 — comparable to the peak electricity demand of the entire state of New York. (End of 2025 (report published 2026).) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
The United States hosts 5,427 data centers, more than ten times the count of any other country. (2025 data (report published 2026).) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
Global AI compute capacity has grown 3.3x per year since 2022, reaching 17.1 million H100-equivalent GPUs, with Nvidia hardware accounting for over 60% of total compute. (2025 data (report published 2026).) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index 2026
US private data center construction spending reached a $50.7 billion seasonally adjusted annual rate in April 2026 — up roughly 27% year over year and, for the first time, exceeding traditional office construction ($43.8 billion). (April 2026.) Source: US Census Bureau Value of Construction Put in Place survey (via Data Center Knowledge)
Shipments of GPUs and AI accelerators for data centers reached an estimated $207 billion in 2025, up roughly 67% from $123 billion in 2024, with the AI data center chip market forecast to hit $286 billion by 2030. (2025 estimate; 2030 forecast (published August 2025).) Source: Omdia (via RCR Wireless News)
Servers in data centers accounted for an estimated 7% of US commercial-sector electricity consumption in 2025, and the EIA projects that share will grow to 22%-33% of commercial building electricity use by 2050. (2025 estimate; 2050 projection (published May 19, 2026).) Source: US Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2026
Combined 2026 capital spending plans of Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta have surpassed $700 billion, with Meta alone raising its full-year 2026 capex guidance to $125-$145 billion, mostly for AI data centers and chips. (2026 guidance (as of mid-2026 earnings reports).) Source: Company earnings guidance (via Yahoo Finance)

AI jobs and the workforce

What AI is doing to hiring, wages, and job cuts.

Workers with AI skills now command an average wage premium of 62% over peers in the same roles without them, up from 57% a year earlier, according to PwC's analysis of more than one billion job advertisements across 27 countries and territories. (2026 Barometer (job-ad data through 2025).) Source: PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer (press release via PR Newswire)
Job postings requiring specific AI skills such as prompt engineering or machine learning grew 69% — roughly eight times as fast as the overall jobs market, which grew 9%. (2026 Barometer (job-ad data through 2025).) Source: PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer (press release via PR Newswire)
Artificial intelligence was cited in 101,743 announced US job cuts in the first half of 2026 — approximately 23% of all layoff announcements — making it the leading stated reason for workforce reductions. (January–June 2026.) Source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas
In June 2026 alone, AI led all reasons for US job cuts with 14,029 announced layoffs (31% of the month's total), the fourth consecutive month it topped the list. (June 2026.) Source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas
The technology sector announced 139,156 US job cuts in the first half of 2026 — up 83% from 76,214 in the same period of 2025. (January–June 2026 vs January–June 2025.) Source: Challenger, Gray & Christmas
AI skills are now mentioned in 2.5% of all US job postings — up 55% year over year and 297% compared with a decade ago. (2026 AI Index (2025 posting data).) Source: Stanford AI Index 2026 labor-market chapter, powered by Lightcast
Early-career workers aged 22–25 in the most AI-exposed occupations have experienced a 16% relative decline in employment since generative AI became widespread, while employment for more experienced workers in the same occupations has remained stable or continued to grow. (Late 2022 through 2025 (paper by Brynjolfsson, Chandar & Chen).) Source: Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Brynjolfsson, Chandar & Chen, "Canaries in the Coal Mine?"), based on payroll data from ADP
The share of US job postings mentioning AI reached a record high of 4.2% at the end of 2025, with AI-mentioning postings 134% above February 2020 levels while total postings were just 6% above that baseline. (December 2025.) Source: Indeed Hiring Lab (Indeed AI Tracker)
US software development job postings on Indeed have risen almost 15% since the launch of Claude Code in late February 2025, even as overall job postings declined 7% — with 71% of the May 2025 to May 2026 increase coming from senior roles. (Late February 2025 – June 2026.) Source: Indeed Hiring Lab
In the past two years, employers have created at least 1.3 million AI-related job opportunities — including data annotators, AI engineers, and forward-deployed engineers — according to LinkedIn's 2026 Labor Market Report, cited in Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index. (2026 Work Trend Index (published May 5, 2026; LinkedIn report dated January 2026).) Source: LinkedIn 2026 Labor Market Report, cited in Microsoft 2026 Work Trend Index
The World Economic Forum projects that macrotrends — led by technological change including AI — will create 170 million new jobs and displace 92 million by 2030, for a net gain of 78 million jobs worldwide. (January 2025 report, projections to 2030 (latest edition of the biennial report).) Source: World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2025 (survey of 1,000+ employers representing over 14 million workers in 55 economies)

AI regulation and safety

The rules, penalties, and documented failures.

Under Article 99 of the EU AI Act, companies that engage in prohibited AI practices face fines of up to 35 million euros or 7% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher. (In force; penalty provisions applicable from 2 August 2025.) Source: EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Article 99 (artificialintelligenceact.eu)
The EU AI Act sets two further penalty tiers below the maximum: up to 15 million euros or 3% of worldwide turnover for most other violations, and up to 7.5 million euros or 1% for supplying false or misleading information to authorities. (In force; penalty provisions applicable from 2 August 2025.) Source: EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Article 99 (artificialintelligenceact.eu)
The AI Incident Database recorded 362 documented AI incidents in 2025, up roughly 55% from 233 in 2024. (Full-year 2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026 (Responsible AI chapter)
After rising from 37 to 58 between 2023 and 2024, the average score on the Foundation Model Transparency Index fell to 40 in 2025, signaling declining disclosure by leading AI developers around training data, compute, and post-deployment impact. (2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026 (Responsible AI chapter)
The share of surveyed businesses with no responsible AI policies in place fell sharply from 24% to 11% in 2025, while AI-specific governance roles grew 17%. (2025.) Source: Stanford HAI AI Index Report 2026 (Responsible AI chapter)
In 2025, US state lawmakers in all 50 states introduced 1,208 AI-related bills, of which 145 were enacted into law. (Full-year 2025 state legislative sessions.) Source: MultiState AI Legislation Tracker
As of March 2026, state lawmakers in 45 US states had already introduced 1,561 AI-related bills in the 2026 legislative session, outpacing the 2025 total with the session still underway. (As of March 2026.) Source: MultiState AI Legislation Tracker
Half of US adults (50%) say the increased use of AI in daily life makes them feel more concerned than excited, while just 10% are more excited than concerned — concern is up from 37% when Pew first asked in 2021. (June 2025 survey (published March 2026).) Source: Pew Research Center
Only 44% of Americans have a lot or some trust in the US government to regulate AI well, while 47% have not too much trust or none at all. (March 2025 survey.) Source: Pew Research Center
Only 46% of people globally are willing to trust AI systems, even though 66% already use AI regularly, according to a University of Melbourne/KPMG survey of over 48,000 people across 47 countries. (Surveyed November 2024 - January 2025 (published April 2025).) Source: KPMG / University of Melbourne, "Trust, attitudes and use of AI: A global study 2025"
70% of people globally believe AI regulation is required, yet only 43% believe existing laws and regulations are adequate, and 87% want stronger laws to combat AI-generated misinformation. (Surveyed November 2024 - January 2025 (published April 2025).) Source: KPMG / University of Melbourne, "Trust, attitudes and use of AI: A global study 2025"
Deepfakes now account for one in five biometric fraud attempts, and instances of deepfaked selfies used in identity fraud increased by 58% in 2025, according to Entrust's 2026 Identity Fraud Report. (2025 data (report published November 2025).) Source: Entrust 2026 Identity Fraud Report (via Biometric Update)

AI content and search

How AI is reshaping the web and search itself.

An Ahrefs analysis of 900,000 newly created English-language web pages found that 74.2% contained at least some AI-generated content, though only 2.5% were purely AI-written and 25.8% were purely human-written. (Pages collected April 2025; published May 19, 2025.) Source: Ahrefs (study of 900,000 new web pages)
According to Graphite's analysis of 43,000 Common Crawl article URLs, the number of AI-generated articles published on the web surpassed human-written articles in November 2024, and the AI share has remained roughly stable since. (Crossover in November 2024; study published October 2025.) Source: Graphite (Five Percent research)
Semrush's tracking of more than 10 million keywords found Google AI Overviews appeared on 6.49% of queries in January 2025, peaked at 24.61% in July 2025, and settled at 15.69% by November 2025. (January–November 2025.) Source: Semrush AI Overviews Study
Semrush also found the intent mix of AI Overviews shifting toward commercial searches: 91.3% of queries triggering an AI Overview were informational in January 2025, but that share fell to 57.1% by October 2025. (January–October 2025.) Source: Semrush AI Overviews Study
In Pew Research Center's tracking of 900 U.S. adults' real browsing behavior, 18% of all Google searches in the study generated an AI summary as part of the results. (Browsing data from March 1-31, 2025.) Source: Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center found Google users clicked a traditional search result on just 8% of visits when an AI summary appeared, versus 15% of visits without one — nearly halving the click rate. (Browsing data from March 2025.) Source: Pew Research Center
Users who saw a Google AI summary clicked one of the source links inside the summary itself on only 1% of visits, per Pew Research Center's behavioral study. (Browsing data from March 2025.) Source: Pew Research Center
SparkToro's analysis of Similarweb clickstream data found that 68.01% of U.S. Google searches ended without a click in January–April 2026, up from 60.45% in 2024 — a 7.56-point rise in two years. (January–April 2026 (published June 9, 2026).) Source: SparkToro / Similarweb (via Search Engine Land)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on the company's Q2 2025 earnings call that AI Overviews has over 2 billion monthly users across more than 200 countries and territories and 40 languages, up from 1.5 billion the prior quarter. (Announced July 23, 2025.) Source: Google Q2 2025 earnings call (via Digiday)
Despite the rise of AI chatbots, Google still held 91.27% of the worldwide search engine market in June 2026, with Bing a distant second at 4.68%, according to Statcounter. (June 2026.) Source: Statcounter Global Stats
Similarweb traffic data showed ChatGPT held 64.5% of generative AI chatbot traffic as of early January 2026, while Google's Gemini had grown to 21.5% from just 5.7% a year earlier, leaving roughly 14% for DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity, Claude, and Copilot combined. (As of January 2, 2026 (reported January 7-9, 2026).) Source: Similarweb (via Android Central / Yahoo Tech)

Methodology

Statistics were compiled in late July 2026. Each number was located in its original source document (or the most authoritative available report citing primary data), confirmed there, and linked. Where a source publishes projections rather than actuals, the entry says so. Numbers describe the period stated in italics next to each entry — not necessarily the current month. Corrections are welcome via our contact page.

FAQ

How big is the AI market in 2026?

Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending will total $2.59 trillion in 2026, up 47% year over year. Corporate AI investment alone reached $581.7 billion in 2025, per Stanford's AI Index.

How many people use AI chatbots?

ChatGPT reported 900 million weekly active users in February 2026, and Google's Gemini app has passed 950 million monthly active users — making AI assistants among the fastest-adopted consumer products in history.

How much electricity does AI use?

Global data center electricity consumption grew 17% in 2025 to 485 TWh, with AI-focused data centers' consumption surging 50% in a single year, according to the IEA.

88% of surveyed organizations now use AI in at least one business function, per the Stanford HAI 2026 AI Index — though deployment of autonomous AI agents remains in the single digits.

AI Statistics 2026: 93 Verified Numbers on the State of Artificial Intelligence