The $40 Billion Question: MIT Says 95% of AI Pilots Deliver Nothing

Reflect w/ Ed Fassio — where AI tells the stories that matter.

MIT's latest analysis found that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots have produced no measurable financial return, despite 30 to 40 billion dollars in cumulative spending. Meanwhile OpenAI carries an 852 billion dollar valuation and ChatGPT ads just crossed a 1 billion dollar annualized run rate. The gap is fueling a fresh wave of bubble warnings.

But the same data shows what the winning 5% do differently: vendor-led deployme...