Where AI Is Right Now: 15 Charts in 15 Minutes
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Nathaniel Whittemore
4.7 • 769 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, we take a rapid-fire tour through 15(ish) charts that capture the current state of artificial intelligence across consumer use, enterprise adoption, agents, and infrastructure. From skyrocketing usage metrics and token consumption to the rise of agentic workflows and the reshaping of corporate org charts, this presentation outlines just how fast AI is accelerating—and how much is already changing under the surface. Recorded live from a major KPMG conference, this episode ends with four key themes from a panel of AI transformation leaders, including why leadership, change management, and rethinking organizational purpose are now at the core of AI strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the AI Daily Brief, 15 charts and 15 minutes that share where AI is right now. |
| 0:06.6 | The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. |
| 0:17.7 | Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. |
| 0:19.7 | All right, quick announcements before we dive in. |
| 0:21.7 | First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitzy, and Super Intelligent. |
| 0:25.7 | And to get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief. |
| 0:29.9 | Today we are doing a fun little episode. |
| 0:32.8 | This week, I was traveling to a conference to do a couple of things, including this kickoff session called |
| 0:37.7 | Where AI is. The idea was to give people 15 charts that told the state of AI in 15 minutes. |
| 0:44.4 | For the event, I had to stick really closely to that. For our purposes, it'll probably be |
| 0:48.1 | slightly more than 15 charts, but you get the idea. For those of you who are trying to catch up |
| 0:52.7 | your friends or colleagues or |
| 0:54.2 | family on where AI is right now, hopefully this will be a useful episode. And we got to kick off with |
| 0:59.8 | the big theme of the moment, which has to be acceleration. One of the things that's extremely |
| 1:04.8 | important to note about AI is that it is not just moving fast. It keeps getting faster. It was already the fastest growing technology |
| 1:12.6 | when you look at things like fastest to 100 million users, which Chatchabit reached in five weeks, |
| 1:18.6 | beating the previous fastest which was TikTok at eight months. But it's done nothing but |
| 1:22.6 | accelerate as you can see from these charts. In fact, we got a major inflection point this year, where when deep research and reasoning models launched, ChadGBTWD went from 400 to 800 million users in just a couple of months. I don't have it in here, but another chart that could represent this right now is Anthropics revenue. They started the year at $1 billion. It took about a quarter to get to $3 billion, and then it took a month to get to 4 billion, |
| 1:44.3 | another month to get to 5, and there is no end in sight. It's not just revenue and it's not |
| 1:48.7 | just users, it's actual usage as well. On their earnings call this quarter, Google shared that |
| 1:53.4 | they had jumped from processing 480 trillion tokens in May to 980 trillion tokens in July. That's 104% growth more than doubling in just |
| 2:04.4 | two months. This is representative of everything that I've seen recently, which is that even in this |
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