It isn't what you have, it is how you use it.
Stanford issued their 2026 AI Index recently, a full 423 pages of AI related data, from attendance at AI conferences, AI patents by geography to Human vs AI performance benchmarks.
It is a lot, and worth a scan through.
It shows that the US and China lead and that accuracy and performance are improving, as you would expect.
Security and Risk are the biggest barriers to AI deployment.
With an 88% of corporates using of AI in at least one department (90% in the US and Europe) distribution of AI is no longer a barrier.
It isn't what you have, it is how you use it.
Two organisations may use AI, and get radically different outcomes because their culture, norms, incentives, friction, leadership visibility and psychological safety are very differernt.
AI assimilation favours those who are curious, who encourage trial and experiementation, risk taking and innovation.
If your teams are fearful of being blamed for something the AI did, or recommended, then they will shrink and stay safe.
If this feels familiar, then your environment is constraining your ambition, and will continue to.
SOURCE
https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2026-ai-index-report
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This is a LOOOOONGG report, but worth a scan through, it is a great resource for data points about AI too.
