Top 1% of AI-Adopting Firms Cut Per-Employee Spending Nearly 10% to $7,205

U.S. business AI adoption reaches 56.1% in August, but the biggest spenders cut per-employee outlays from $7,976 to $7,205 as frontier models’ token share slips to 45% and open-source or Chinese options remain used by just 6.4% of AI-buying firms.

• Ramp records U.S. business AI adoption at 56.1% in August, rising by less than half a percentage point month over month.
• Per-employee AI spending among the top 1% of adopting firms falls nearly 10%, from $7,976 to $7,205.
• Frontier models Opus, Fable, and Sol account for 45% of token share, down from a 53% August peak, while only 6.4% of AI-spending businesses use open-source or Chinese alternatives.