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2024 Global Trends in AI Report

The 2024 Global Trends in AI Report provides the critical analysis essential for organizations deploying AI initiatives. This data-driven report leverages primary research from 1,500 AI decision makers and includes insights across AI project maturity, AI pervasiveness, scale and impact across organizations, consequences of legacy AI architectures, how AI Leaders are separating from the pack, Generative AI, sustainability and much more.

5 Questions Every Organization Needs to Ask About AI

What is driving industry leaders
to invest in AI?

Do data architectures impact
AI initiatives?

What makes an AI Leader
in 2024?

Which bottlenecks are impacting
AI project success?

Is sustainability here to stay?

Surging AI Investments Focus on Delivering Against Product and Efficiency Goals  

Key

Result 2023
Result 2024
Annual Change

* These picklist options were not available for selection in the 2023 edition of the survey Q. .What are the primary driver(s) for developing AI/ML applications at your organization? (2023) & Q. . What are the primary driver(s) for developing AI/ML applications at your organization? (2024)

Many AI Projects Fail to Scale - Legacy Data Architectures Are the Culprit

Q. How many AI/ML projects do you currently have?

Data Management and Storage Are Top Technical Inhibitors

35 %
Data management/storage
26 %
Data management/storage
Compute performance
23 %
Data management/storage
Security
15 %
Data management/storage
Networking

The top infrastructure inhibitors to AI/ML deployments are data management and storage. However, organizations who are executing on AI in production at scale report fewer concerns and are increasingly investing in technologies to store and manage data.

Capitalized on Generative AI and positioned it as an integrated capability across their business

AI Leaders Are Distancing Themselves From The Pack

What makes an Al Leader in 2024?

  • AI/ML projects in production environment driving significant impact
  • Implemented AI/ML widely across their organization, achieving scale
  • Capitalized on Generative AI and positioned it as an integrated capability across their business

Key

Each circle represents ~50 respondents

Q. What makes an AI Leader in 2024?

GPU Scarcity Is Shaping Global Infrastructure Decision-Making

Key

Need for AI accelerators (i.e. GPUs, TPUs, etc.) factoring into decision-making

22%
74%

Q. Which factors most influence the AI infrastructure decisions made at your organization? 

Sustainability Key Findings

30 %
of organizations cited sustainability initiatives as a driver for AI adoption
89 %
of organizations cited that they are very concerned about the impact of AI/ML projects on their energy use and carbon footprint
42 %
of organizations invested in energy-efficient IT hardware/systems to address the potential negative environmental impacts of their AI initiatives over the past 12 months and 56% believed this had a ‘high’ or ‘very high’ impact

Q. What technological component of your infrastructure is the greatest inhibitor to your AI/ML application deployments?

Answers to Three Critical
Questions about AI in 2024

Watch this video with 451 Research Senior Research Analyst, Alex Johnston, sharing research and analysis across key AI trends in 2024, the emergence of Generative AI and pressing challenges to AI adoption.

Download the 2024 Global Trends
in AI Report Here

Additional Resources

See these supporting resources to further your research into this emerging technology

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