How Founders Use AI · What changed

What changed in AI, July to October.

The launches, closures, renames and price changes that matter, newest first, each linked to where it was announced or reported. Checked 29 October 2026. Which tool is for which job.

How people use AI now

  1. People are moving from chatting with AI to handing it whole tasks and letting agents act for them. anthropic.com anthropic.com 2 menlovc.com
  2. Coding has moved from autocomplete to coding agents, which are now the largest single use of AI for developers and the largest line of enterprise AI spend. survey.stackoverflow.co a16z.com menlovc.com blogs.microsoft.com
  3. Growth now comes from existing users going deeper and paying more, while the share of people using AI rises slowly. menlovc.com openai.com blogs.microsoft.com
  4. Most use is personal rather than work: people ask AI for advice, explanations, health answers and recommendations as much as they use it to produce work. openai.com anthropic.com menlovc.com
  5. AI chatbots are becoming a way to find information and news, but trust in their answers lags well behind use. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk survey.stackoverflow.co menlovc.com
  6. People use more than one assistant: ChatGPT still leads by far, but Gemini and Claude are growing faster in paid users and many people use two. a16z.com pewresearch.org
  7. Use is spreading fastest in lower-income countries and through free or bundled plans, yet the gap between rich and poor countries is still widening. openai.com blogs.microsoft.com engadget.com

The changes, newest first

  1. 28 Oct 2026 GitHub began including Copilot with GitHub Enterprise licences and added projects to the Copilot app, where several agents work across repositories. Coding agents github.blog
  2. 27 Oct 2026 n8n released the 3.0 beta, a reliability and security release with breaking changes; self-hosting now runs on Docker only and the stable release is due in early December. No-code automation with AI steps blog.n8n.io
  3. 27 Oct 2026 Hex released Hex 4.0, rebuilt for analysts and AI agents working together, with a $100 million raise. Spreadsheets, data and internal tools hex.tech
  4. 26 Oct 2026 Replit launched Replit for Business, and the next day Cloud Agents that let non-engineers propose changes to a company codebase. App builders blog.replit.com
  5. 26 Oct 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra at $1 / $5 per million tokens, half the price of GPT-6.1 Sol. Frontier models openai.com
  6. 23 Oct 2026 The merged Claude app, with Cowork built in, became generally available on Claude Enterprise. Agents that do tasks for you claude.com
  7. 22 Oct 2026 Canva released Canva Craft, its first in-house image model, in Canva and through its API. Design and presentations canva.com
  8. 22 Oct 2026 Meta's revised Commercial Terms, effective 30 October 2026, make advertisers solely responsible for what Meta's AI features create or change in their ads. Marketing, ads and AI search ppc.land
  9. 20 Oct 2026 Fill with Gemini in Google Sheets began citing its web source in each cell it fills. Spreadsheets, data and internal tools workspaceupdates.googleblog.com
  10. 19 Oct 2026 Notion rebuilt its agents with their own computer and browser, and let ChatGPT Plus, Pro or Go plans pay for AI in Notion. Spreadsheets, data and internal tools notion.com
  11. 17 Oct 2026 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, which now serves the deepseek-flash API name; the older V4-Flash models were retired from the API. Open-weight models api-docs.deepseek.com
  12. 15 Oct 2026 At Config, Figma put code layers (code-backed prototypes on the canvas) into open beta on all plans and introduced Specs, Markdown files that live with a project. Design and presentations figma.com
  13. 15 Oct 2026 Kuaishou launched Kling 4.0, with up to 30 seconds in one pass and up to 15 reference assets. Video generation bernama.com
  14. 14 Oct 2026 Lovable added growth tools that plan and run marketing for an app across Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. App builders lovable.dev
  15. 14 Oct 2026 HeyGen published HeyGen Voice, scene-aware voice cloning for talking videos. Avatars and voice heygen.com
  16. 14 Oct 2026 TypeSafe released Jev 1.14, now the default jev-latest model, at the same price. Decision models docs.typesafe.ai
  17. 13 Oct 2026 Gemini 4 Argon arrived in Google Antigravity for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Coding agents antigravity.google
  18. 13 Oct 2026 Google made Gemini 4 Argon, its new flagship, generally available. Frontier models ai.google.dev
  19. 13 Oct 2026 Legora launched Intake, which turns employees' legal requests in Slack into tracked work that its agent drafts for a lawyer to review. Legal and contracts legora.com
  20. 13 Oct 2026 Notion 3.8 let outside agents connect to a workspace through MCP and let Notion Agents use 150+ tools. Spreadsheets, data and internal tools notion.com
  21. 12 Oct 2026 Copilot in Excel gained an interactive canvas for reports and a skill builder and recorder that turn a recurring task into a reusable skill. Spreadsheets, data and internal tools techcommunity.microsoft.com
  22. 9 Oct 2026 TypeSafe AI raised a Series A of $870 million at a $7.5B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Decision models typesafe.ai
  23. 8 Oct 2026 Google deprecated Gemini 3.7 Flash and 3.5 Flash in favour of 3.8 Flash and 3.6 Flash. Frontier models ai.google.dev
  24. 7 Oct 2026 Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, which it says costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5. Frontier models anthropic.com
  25. 6 Oct 2026 Sierra and Meta announced Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for how people's AI agents deal with businesses, with partners including Shopify, Stripe and Walmart. Customer support agents sierra.ai
  26. 6 Oct 2026 Google released Nano Banana 2.1, an update to Nano Banana 2 with better text rendering and character consistency, and deprecated Nano Banana 2. Images ai.google.dev
  27. 6 Oct 2026 Meta widened Ads Creative Studio, began testing an agentic Meta AI business assistant that can build and change campaigns on request, and expanded its ads MCP server. Marketing, ads and AI search facebook.com
  28. 6 Oct 2026 Mistral opened a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model, and said the weights would follow by the end of October. Open-weight models mistral.ai
  29. Oct 2026 Google's paid Gemini plans moved to Gemini 4 Argon, which the subscriptions page lists for Google AI Plus, Pro and Ultra. AI assistants gemini.google
  30. 1 Oct 2026 Decagon released Voice 3, Personal Agent Gateway (a channel for customers' own AI agents), Agent Modules and Duet Apprentice. Customer support agents decagon.ai
  31. Oct 2026 Attio launched four beta features for agents working in the CRM: SQL Engine, Data Connectors, Agent Scale and Activities. Prospecting and sales attio.com
  32. 30 Sep 2026 Gong launched Mission Callisto: Gong Enrich (third-party account and contact data), Deep Mode in Gong Assistant, Agent Builder updates, and Gong Activate. Prospecting and sales gong.io
  33. 28 to 29 Sep 2026 OpenAI reopened the $200 Pro plan with a lower usage allowance, added Pro 100 and Pro 500 ($500 a month, with Ultrafast), and grandfathered existing Pro 200 subscribers until 29 October 2026. AI assistants help.openai.com
  34. 29 Sep 2026 At DevDay OpenAI launched dots (always-on agents on Pro and Business Premium), ChatGPT Space and Pages for teams, and Sign in with ChatGPT across 16 partner tools. AI assistants openai.com
  35. 29 Sep 2026 At DevDay OpenAI launched dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, on Pro and Business Premium first. Agents that do tasks for you openai.com
  36. 29 Sep 2026 OpenAI added computer use to its Agents API so developers can build agents that operate software, and Amazon offers the same as Bedrock Managed Agents. Agents that do tasks for you openai.com
  37. 29 Sep 2026 v0 let users connect a ChatGPT subscription to pay for building, one of the Sign in with ChatGPT partners announced at DevDay. App builders v0.app
  38. 29 Sep 2026 At DevDay OpenAI launched Codex cloud environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, code review in the desktop app, Codex Security Cloud, and Sign in with ChatGPT so a ChatGPT plan pays for tools such as Devin, Amp and Conductor. Coding agents openai.com
  39. 29 Sep 2026 OpenAI announced the Decisions API, built on GPT-6 Luna, at DevDay; its docs now say it is generally available. Decision models openai.com
  40. 29 Sep 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, which it says nearly matches Astra at a fifth of the price, and Ultrafast, a faster speed tier. Frontier models openai.com
  41. 29 Sep 2026 LinkedIn announced Hiring Assistant 2, with better reasoning, memory and talent-pool management; existing English users get it free from November. Hiring and HR news.linkedin.com
  42. 29 Sep 2026 OpenAI launched a Meetings plugin and ChatGPT Space, a shared home where a team, ChatGPT and their dots work on the same pages. Meeting notes and everyday productivity openai.com
  43. 29 Sep 2026 OpenAI added MCP events to ChatGPT plugins, so an event in a connected app (a new task on a board) can start an automation, on all plans. No-code automation with AI steps openai.com
  44. 29 Sep 2026 Clay opened a Skills Marketplace of community-built skills, free to install, that run in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Prospecting and sales clay.com
  45. 28 Sep 2026 Manus released Manus 2.0 with cloud computers, event-triggered automations and computer use, plus Cue, a separate app for personal agents in early access. Agents that do tasks for you manus.im
  46. 28 Sep 2026 ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo, bringing back professional voice clones and supporting 90+ languages. Avatars and voice elevenlabs.io
  47. 28 Sep 2026 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5; OpenAI said it would not release GPT-6.1 Astra because it did not meet its safety standards. Frontier models cnbc.com
  48. 24 Sep 2026 Lovable made chatting with it free, to plan an app or work on a launched one before spending credits. App builders lovable.dev
  49. 24 Sep 2026 OpenAI shut down the Sora API, after closing the Sora app and website on 26 April 2026; Sora is no longer a tool you can use. Video generation help.openai.com
  50. 22 Sep 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 and raised five-hour usage limits on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans. AI assistants anthropic.com
  51. 22 Sep 2026 Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, with voice design and voice replication in the Gemini API. Avatars and voice ai.google.dev
  52. 22 Sep 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, which it says leads in agentic coding and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, and raised Claude Code usage limits on paid plans. Coding agents anthropic.com
  53. 22 Sep 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5; the same day OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at half the price of their GPT-5.6 versions. Frontier models openai.com
  54. 22 Sep 2026 Universal and Sony took Suno to court over v6, saying it continues the infringement of the earlier models. Music and audio musicradar.com
  55. 21 Sep 2026 xAI released Grok 4.7. Frontier models x.ai
  56. 16 Sep 2026 Anthropic merged Claude Cowork into the main Claude app, so any conversation can take on a long task, and added Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta. Agents that do tasks for you claude.com
  57. 16 Sep 2026 Canva launched the Canva ProSuite, connecting Affinity, Cavalry, Flourish and Leonardo with Canva for professional designers. Design and presentations canva.com
  58. 16 Sep 2026 Anthropic added Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta, so documents and decks are made and edited inside a Claude conversation. Meeting notes and everyday productivity claude.com
  59. 15 Sep 2026 TypeSafe AI came out of stealth with a $40M seed led by DCVC and released Jev, which it calls the first public System One model. Decision models finance.yahoo.com
  60. 15 Sep 2026 Ramp went live in the United Kingdom with cards, expenses, bill pay and accounting. Finance and accounting ramp.com
  61. 14 Sep 2026 Zendesk launched Industry Agents, starting with commerce, and Custom Agents built in its no-code Agent Builder; both can also run inside Salesforce and ServiceNow. Customer support agents zendesk.com
  62. 14 Sep 2026 Anthropic launched Claude for Financial Advisors, connecting Claude to wealth-management software from firms including BlackRock, Charles Schwab and Addepar. Finance and accounting thestar.com.my
  63. 14 Sep 2026 Legora rebuilt its legal research on a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator. Legal and contracts legora.com
  64. 11 Sep 2026 ElevenLabs released Music v2.5, its newest licensed music model. Music and audio elevenlabs.io
  65. 10 Sep 2026 Cognition released SWE-2, its own coding model, free to use on Devin's paid plans. Coding agents cognition.ai
  66. 10 Sep 2026 Salesforce completed its purchase of Fin, the company formerly called Intercom; Fin keeps serving customers inside Salesforce. Customer support agents salesforce.com
  67. 9 Sep 2026 Suno launched v6, v6-wild and v6-mini, rebuilt on licensed Warner Music Group and BMG recordings, and retired all its earlier models. Music and audio musicradar.com
  68. 8 Sep 2026 Meta launched Muse, a personal agent that books travel, fills forms and shops from its own cloud computer; it is in the US only, through an app and WhatsApp. Agents that do tasks for you techrepublic.com
  69. 8 Sep 2026 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.5, with sharper detail, more precise edits, faster generation and templates. Images help.openai.com
  70. 3 Sep 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise over the following days. AI assistants x.com
  71. 3 Sep 2026 OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model, at $10 / $50 per million tokens in the API. Frontier models x.com
  72. 3 Sep 2026 Google made Lyria 3.5 generally available, with full-length songs and natural vocals. Music and audio ai.google.dev
  73. 2 Sep 2026 Google made Gemini 3.8 Flash generally available. Frontier models ai.google.dev
  74. 1 Sep 2026 Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5.1 for vetted organisations, with Claude Fable 5.1 as the same model with safeguards for everyone else. Frontier models anthropic.com
  75. Sep 2026 Google began automatically upgrading Search campaigns that use the campaign-level broad match setting (and automatically created assets) to AI Max. Marketing, ads and AI search support.google.com
  76. Sep 2026 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash. Open-weight models huggingface.co
  77. 30 Aug 2026 OpenAI retired the official DALL·E GPT in ChatGPT; images are now made with ChatGPT Images. Images help.openai.com
  78. 27 Aug 2026 Google's Gemini Omni Flash became generally available, letting people edit an existing video by describing the change, extend a clip, or swap objects and characters. Video editing ai.google.dev
  79. 27 Aug 2026 Google made Gemini Omni Flash generally available to developers, adding video extension, first-and-last-frame transitions and output up to 4K (upscaled). Video generation ai.google.dev
  80. 26 Aug 2026 Claude in Chrome became generally available on every paid Claude plan and can now act without approving each step, with a safety classifier checking actions. AI browsers claude.com
  81. 20 Aug 2026 Google Antigravity added extensions for other IDEs and became available to Gemini Enterprise customers. Coding agents antigravity.google
  82. 20 Aug 2026 Harvey shared a research preview of Harvey Tenet, its first post-trained open-weight model, built on Kimi K3 for long legal tasks. Legal and contracts harvey.ai
  83. 17 Aug 2026 Google shut down its Imagen 4 models in the Gemini API; Nano Banana models replace them. Images ai.google.dev
  84. 14 Aug 2026 SpaceX completed its acquisition of Cursor, which now builds and ships xAI's Grok models inside the editor. Coding agents cursor.com
  85. 13 Aug 2026 Google made Gemini 3.7 Flash generally available. Frontier models ai.google.dev
  86. 13 Aug 2026 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, the official V4-Pro, under the MIT licence. Open-weight models huggingface.co
  87. 12 Aug 2026 Lovable raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation. App builders lovable.dev
  88. 11 Aug 2026 xAI launched Grok Bot, always-on agents with their own computer, later included with SuperGrok. AI assistants x.ai
  89. Aug 2026 Alibaba released the Qwen3.8 open family, including Qwen3.8-27B under Apache 2.0. Open-weight models huggingface.co
  90. Aug 2026 Z.ai released GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash. Open-weight models huggingface.co
  91. 31 Jul 2026 DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731. Open-weight models huggingface.co
  92. 31 Jul 2026 ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, making 30-second clips in one run from up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio clips. Video generation technode.com
  93. 24 Jul 2026 Midjourney made V8.2 its default model, with a new Edit Model replacing Omni Reference, Character Reference and Retexture. Images docs.midjourney.com
  94. 23 Jul 2026 Black Forest Labs announced FLUX 3, its first video model, making clips up to 20 seconds with sound, in gated early access. Video generation venturebeat.com
  95. 21 Jul 2026 Google made Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite generally available. Frontier models ai.google.dev
  96. 16 Jul 2026 xAI released Grok 4.5 and brought it to grok.com, X and the mobile apps on 22 July. AI assistants x.ai
  97. 16 Jul 2026 Ramp launched tools to see and control company spending on AI models and tokens. Finance and accounting ramp.com
  98. 16 Jul 2026 xAI released Grok 4.5, followed by Grok 4.6 on 12 August. Frontier models x.ai
  99. 16 Jul 2026 Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook; Audio Overviews carry on under the new name. Music and audio oit.ncsu.edu
  100. 16 Jul 2026 Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook; the product works the same, and notebooks sync with the Gemini app. Research and search androidauthority.com
  101. 9 Jul 2026 Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and made it the Thinking mode in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai. AI assistants ai.meta.com
  102. 9 Jul 2026 OpenAI merged Chat, Work and Codex into one new ChatGPT desktop app for macOS and Windows, with Work as the agent for multi-step tasks and a built-in browser. Agents that do tasks for you help.openai.com
  103. 9 Jul 2026 Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 with a public preview of the Meta Model API. Frontier models ai.meta.com
  104. 7 Jul 2026 Jio Haptik launched SOLO, an Android and iOS app that gives small businesses AI teammates for marketing, sales and support, with a free plan. Customer support agents apacnewsnetwork.com
  105. 6 Jul 2026 Naukri rolled out its AI recruitment platform: AI REX for sourcing, Talent Pulse for pay and workforce data, and PremiumX for premium hiring. Hiring and HR yourstory.com
  106. Jul 2026 OpenAI said it is retiring the ChatGPT Atlas browser (targeted deprecation 9 August) and cancelled the Windows version; browsing moved into the new ChatGPT desktop app. AI browsers pcmag.com
  107. Jul 2026 Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it calls the first open 3T-class model. Open-weight models kimi.com
  108. Jul 2026 Attio acquired Inconvo, whose founders joined Attio to build more agents and integrations into the CRM. Prospecting and sales attio.com

In India

  1. India has about 100 million weekly ChatGPT users, ChatGPT's second-largest user base after the US, and the largest number of student users in the world (Sam Altman, February 2026). techcrunch.com
  2. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Go, its cheapest paid plan, in India first at 390 rupees; TechCrunch reports it was later made free for a year for Indian users. engadget.com
  3. Jio gives its Unlimited 5G customers Google AI Pro free for 18 months (worth about 35,100 rupees), and Airtel gave all 360 million of its customers a year of Perplexity Pro in July 2025. engadget.com
  4. Google says India has the highest global use of Gemini for learning, and it gave Indian students a free year of its AI Pro plan in September 2025. techcrunch.com
  5. India is the second-largest country by Claude use (7.2% of the total), and coding is over half of all Claude use there, against about a third globally. anthropic.com
  6. India is one of the top markets for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, alongside the US, Brazil, the UK and Indonesia. a16z.com
  7. Sarvam AI launched two models trained for Indian languages, Sarvam 30B and Sarvam 105B, at the India AI Impact Summit in February 2026, covering all 22 scheduled languages plus English. storyboard18.com
  8. Sarvam is one of 12 organisations selected under the IndiaAI Mission's Innovation Centre pillar, with support worth 246.72 crore rupees, and its speech-to-text model Saaras covers all 22 scheduled languages. static.pib.gov.in
  9. The IndiaAI Mission plans 38,000 GPUs offered at subsidised rates as low as 65 rupees an hour, and shortlisted Sarvam, Soket AI and Gnani.ai to build Indian foundation models. inc42.com

What the studies say

  1. How people are using ChatGPT (NBER working paper w34255, with David Deming)

    OpenAI, Sep 2025

    • About 70% of consumer ChatGPT use is not work-related and about 30% is work-related, and both are growing.
    • Three-quarters of conversations are practical guidance, seeking information and writing. Coding and self-expression are niche.
    • 49% of messages are Asking, 40% are Doing (drafting, planning, programming) and 11% are Expressing.
    • Users with typically feminine names rose from 37% in January 2024 to 52% in July 2025.
    • By May 2025, adoption growth in the lowest-income countries was over 4 times that in the highest-income countries.

  2. 2026: The State of Consumer AI

    Menlo Ventures, Sep 2026

    • The share of US adults using AI rose only from 61% to 64%, while global consumer AI spend more than tripled from $12 billion to an estimated $40 billion.
    • 55% of US AI users pay for at least one AI product, and the 14% who spend $100 or more a month account for 60% of consumer spend.
    • 41% of AI users have tried an AI agent, 24% use one regularly, and 32% have let AI act for them without final approval.
    • 48% of AI users say they have earned money with AI.
    • Using AI to answer health questions rose from 14% to 25%, and 36% of consumers say they are less likely to engage with content they know is AI-generated.

  3. Americans and AI 2026: Chatbots, Smart Devices and Views on Impact (chart: ChatGPT tops the list of chatbots Americans use)

    Pew Research Center, Jun 2026

    • 44% of US adults say they ever use ChatGPT (survey of 17 to 23 February 2026).
    • 24% use Gemini, 17% Copilot, 14% Meta AI, 8% Grok, 6% Claude and 3% Character.ai.
    • 61% of adults aged 18 to 29 use ChatGPT, against 19% of those 65 and over.

  4. The continued state of global AI diffusion in 2026 (Microsoft AI Diffusion Report, Q2 2026)

    Microsoft AI Economy Institute, Sep 2026

    • In June 2026, 18.8% of the world's working-age population used AI, up about 1 point from Q1 (17.8%, per the May 2026 report).
    • The UAE leads at 73.3% and Singapore is second at 64.3%.
    • Use is 28.8% in the Global North against 16.2% in the Global South, and the gap widened this quarter.
    • The share of API token volume going to open-weight models is growing, which the report says could especially help the Global South with cost and local languages.
    • The May 2026 Q1 report found global code pushes on Git up 78% year over year, crediting tools like Claude Code, Codex and GitHub Copilot.

  5. Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences

    Anthropic, Jun 2026

    • Anthropic says one year ago most Claude use was a conversation, and with Claude Code and Cowork sessions now increasingly consist of long-running agentic tasks.
    • 93% of Claude conversations produce an artifact. The most common are explanations (17%), documents and reports (15%) and guidance (11%).
    • Personal use rises from around 35% of chat and Cowork conversations on weekdays to just under 50% on weekends.
    • In the April 2026 survey of Claude users, 86%, 82% and 69% report gains in the speed, scope and quality of their work.
    • Over 35% of surveyed users predict AI will be able to do most of their work next year, and 10% rate losing their own job in the next 12 months as likely or very likely.

  6. Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption

    Anthropic, Sep 2025

    • Directive conversations, where users hand Claude a whole task, rose from 27% to 39%, the first time automation exceeded augmentation.
    • 77% of business API use follows automation patterns, against about 50% for Claude.ai users.
    • The US accounts for 21.6% of Claude use, India is second at 7.2% and Brazil third at 3.7%.
    • Coding is over half of all Claude use in India, against roughly a third globally.

  7. The state of enterprise AI (2025 report)

    OpenAI, 2025

    • Weekly messages in ChatGPT Enterprise rose roughly 8 times in a year, and the average worker sends 30% more messages.
    • Use of Projects and Custom GPTs rose 19 times year to date.
    • Average reasoning token use per organisation rose about 320 times in 12 months.
    • Surveyed workers report saving 40 to 60 minutes a day, and heavy users more than 10 hours a week.
    • Frontier workers (95th percentile) send 6 times more messages than the median employee.

  8. 2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise

    Menlo Ventures, Dec 2025

    • Enterprise generative AI spend reached $37 billion in 2025, up from $11.5 billion in 2024.
    • The application layer took $19 billion of that and infrastructure $18 billion.
    • Coding is the largest departmental use at $4.0 billion, 55% of departmental AI spend.
    • Enterprise LLM API share: Anthropic 40%, OpenAI 27%, Google 21%.
    • 76% of enterprise AI solutions are bought rather than built, up from 53% in 2024.

  9. The 2026 AI Index Report

    Stanford HAI, 2026

    • Organisational AI adoption reached 88%.
    • Generative AI reached 53% population adoption within three years.
    • The US ranks 24th in generative AI adoption at 28.3%, behind Singapore (61%) and the UAE (64%).
    • The estimated value of generative AI tools to US consumers reached $172 billion a year by early 2026.
    • Documented AI incidents rose to 362 in 2025, from 233 in 2024.

  10. The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, 6th Edition

    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Mar 2026

    • ChatGPT reached 900 million weekly active users, up about 500 million in a year.
    • On web traffic ChatGPT is 2.7 times the size of Gemini, and roughly 20% of weekly ChatGPT web users also use Gemini in a given week.
    • Gemini's paid subscribers grew 258% year over year and Claude's over 200% (Yipit Data, January 2026).
    • Claude Code reached a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate in six months, and OpenAI reported 2 million weekly Codex users in early March 2026.
    • India is one of the top markets for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, alongside the US, Brazil, the UK and Indonesia.

  11. Digital News Report 2026: Overview and key findings

    Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Jun 2026

    • Weekly use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini for news rose from 7% to 10%.
    • 16% of under-35s use AI chatbots for news, and the UK is lowest of all markets at 4%.
    • Trust in answers from AI chatbots is 20% globally, against 37% trust in news overall.
    • 42% of people who use AI chatbots for news say they always or often click through to the original source.
    • The most popular chatbot feature for news (42%) is the ability to ask follow-up questions.

  12. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: AI

    Stack Overflow, 2026

    • Coding assistants and agents are now the top AI use among respondents (66%), ahead of general chatbots (63%).
    • 73% of respondents use coding assistants and agents daily, and 31% of daily AI users use AI more than four hours a day.
    • Claude Code (66%) and GitHub Copilot (59%) lead among coding agents.
    • 48% trust AI when they can easily validate the answer, and only 16% trust it for most tasks that are not important work decisions.
    • Only 6% switched AI tools because of cost; 25% switched for better output.
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