The state of enterprise AI

Source: OpenAI Date: 2025-12-17 URL: https://openai.com/business/guides-and-resources/the-state-of-enterprise-ai-2025-report

Summary

OpenAI’s end-of-year 2025 enterprise AI report, likely a survey-backed assessment of adoption rates, use case distribution, and perceived barriers across large organizations using ChatGPT Enterprise or API integrations. Published in December 2025, it would capture the post-GPT-5 launch environment and the early months of agentic feature rollouts (Operator, Automations, ChatGPT Agent preview).

Implications

Benchmark document for the agentic transition. December 2025 sits right after the ChatGPT Agent system card (July 2025) and before the Workspace Agents launch (April 2026). A state-of-enterprise report from this moment captures whether organizations were actually deploying agentic workflows or still in the copilot phase — useful calibration for understanding the adoption curve.

OpenAI’s narrative control. These reports are also marketing — OpenAI gets to frame what “enterprise AI maturity” means, which shapes what buyers think they should be pursuing. The metrics and framings chosen here will influence analyst coverage and competitor positioning through at least Q1 2026.

Watch: The specific use case breakdown — whether coding/productivity dominated, or whether customer-facing deployments were catching up. That distribution determines where the next wave of enterprise AI spend flows.