Overview

• McKinsey reports that more than 75% of companies use generative AI in at least one function, yet only about one in five see clear financial impact so far.
• An IDC survey finds 89% updated data strategies for generative AI, but just 26% have deployments at scale and only 12% trust their infrastructure for autonomous decisions despite broad investment in agentic workflows.
• A new MIT study shows many pilots stall before production, with external partnerships significantly increasing success rates compared with in‑house efforts.
• Industry leaders stress real‑time, high‑quality data pipelines and strong governance, with Google Cloud’s Oliver Parker warning about bias, errors, energy use and privacy risks.
• Latin America is emerging as a testbed as Google invests in regional infrastructure and launches training for one million people in Mexico, while McKinsey projects up to 30% of U.S. work hours could be automated by 2030.