Only 6% of companies have made enterprise AI genuinely work at scale. That's the headline from The Six Percent Report, a new study from Scale AI in partnership with Reuters Insights, based on nearly 500 senior AI decision-makers worldwide.
For context: a year ago, MIT found that only 5% of business pilots were successfully driving measurable results. Despite a year of massive investment, rapid model improvements, and near-universal "AI strategy" announcements — the needle has barely moved.
"For the large organizations that are the backbone of our society, hospitals, financial institutions, and telecommunications companies, turning that potential into real results has been much harder."
What actually changed
The report doesn't just note the problem — it profiles the companies that have solved it and reverse-engineers why.
