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94% of Companies See No Meaningful ROI from AI

McKinsey's State of AI 2025 (n=1,993): only 5.64% of firms clear a meaningful EBIT threshold from AI. 61% report zero measurable impact.

Dennis Vorobyov
Dennis Vorobyov
CEO & Founder, EltexSoft
January 18, 2026 · 8 min read

Everyone is using AI. Almost nobody is making money from it. McKinsey's State of AI 2025 — the largest survey of its kind at 1,993 respondents — found that precisely 109 firms (5.64%) clear a meaningful EBIT-from-AI threshold. The other 94% are in various stages of pilot purgatory.

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Last updated January 18, 2026

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