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95% of companies are seeing no return on their AI spending

95% SEE NO MEASURABLE AI ROI

MIT’s Project NANDA analyzed 300 AI deployments and interviewed 150 business leaders in 2025, finding that despite $30 to $40 billion in enterprise generative AI investment, only about 5% of pilots are producing measurable revenue gains. Researchers traced most failures to poor integration and misplaced priorities, not the technology itself.

Source: MIT NANDA: The GenAI Divide, State of AI in Business 2025 →