AI Development

Top 1% firms spend $7,400 per employee on AI, Ramp Index shows

August 17, 2026 · Medium importance · markets

According to Ramp’s AI Index, the top 1 percent of US companies reached a median spend of $7,400 (approximately Rs 7 lakh) per employee on AI tools, up sharply from $2,590 in January. The top 10 percent spent $650 per employee while the overall median remained only $11.95. Anthropic led business adoption at 43.5 percent, followed by OpenAI at 39.7 percent, with growing use of open-source and Chinese models among heavier users. The data highlights widening divergence in AI investment intensity across firms.

Date
August 17, 2026
Importance
Medium 3/5
Category
markets
Axis of Change
Capital Concentration
Organizations
Ramp Anthropic OpenAI SpaceXAI
Models Affected
No specific model identified
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