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The New Rules of Scaling Enterprise AI: What It Takes to Sustain AI at Scale

Enterprise AI is spreading fast, with organizations looking to scale those deployments at an even greater scale. But rising costs, governance requirements, and production challenges are complicating that objective and reshaping how organizations manage AI in business operations. The result is an enterprise AI landscape that has IT leaders rethinking their strategies in an effort to maintain control, demonstrate value, and support continued growth.

The State of Enterprise AI 2026: The New Rules of Enterprise AI at Scale explores how organizations are managing the economic and operational demands of AI, where they're encountering obstacles, and what they're prioritizing as they plan for the future. With 89% of enterprises limiting or redesigning AI use cases because of rising token consumption, the findings offer a closer look at what it takes to sustain AI as organizations scale.

Download the report to explore:

  • How rising token consumption is forcing enterprises to rethink AI investments and deployment strategies 

  • How scaling AI in production is forcing enterprises to reassess their strategies

  • Why governance and compliance remain significant barriers to scaling AI  

  • How data sovereignty, cost, and resilience are shaping where enterprises run AI workloads  

  • What enterprise leaders wish they had prioritized differently on their AI journeys

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