About 12% of Australian employing businesses used AI in 2024–25, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics , rising to 35% of businesses with 200 or more staff. The money is mostly not going into AI itself: Australian businesses spent $668.3 million on AI R&D in 2023–24, about 2.7% of $24.4 billion in total business R&D.
What this covers
- What counts as “AI adoption” in Australian business statistics?
- Reading an Australian AI adoption figure before you quote it
- MAKE MORE SALES.
- How many Australian businesses use AI? Three sources, three answers
- AI adoption by business size and industry in Australia
- What Australian businesses actually use AI for
This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the data, tables and worked examples — is on our site: *AI adoption in Australian businesses: where the money is actually going*.
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