Women lead nine of the companies featured on the recently published Fortune AIQ 50 list, a ranking of the top Fortune 500 companies that are most advanced in their adoption of artificial intelligence, especially in light of how much their tech leaders value AI investments compared with rivals.
These women-led companies come from all corners of the economy, ranging from aerospace and defense to banking and retail. They account for 18% of the AIQ list, compared with women running just 11% of all companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2025.
AI use cases that have been deployed by these businesses have varied greatly. Financial giant Citigroup’s (No. 38) recent AI efforts have included retraining 175,000 employees on how to write better prompts to generate more impactful results from large language model queries. Insurance provider Progressive (No. 22) is using AI to help sort through hundreds of thousands of job applications. And a recently launched AI-powered tool at Albertsons (No. 30) can carry on a conversation with consumers shopping online, suggesting grocery items to consider buying, which has proved to lift total basket size.
Rounding out the list of women-led companies on the AIQ 50 are financial analytics firm S&P Global (No. 12), aerospace and defense giants General Dynamics (No. 21) and Northrop Grumman (No. 43), mining company Freeport-McMoRan (No. 31), and health insurers Centene (No. 27) and Elevance Health (No. 35).
