In the year 2023 the usage of AI by enterprises in Canada has increased in number compared to 2022. The increase of AI usage by these enterprises can be seen ranging from small businesses to larger enterprises. There is also data showing the different purposes of AI usage based on the different sizes of these companies in 2023.
The graph shows that the number of smaller companies in Canada that use AI has increased from under ten percent in 2022 to over ten percent in the following year. Whereas in medium corporations, the number of companies that use AI went just over twenty percent in 2023 compared to the previous year where only a little over ten percent used AI. Lastly, over forty percent of all of the large Canadian enterprises used AI in 2023, showing a substantial increase compared to the number of enterprises using AI which were only just over thirty percent in 2022. This data solidifies the fact that there was an increase of AI usage in Canadian enterprises.
The distribution on which purposes these companies use AI for can be seen on the second data. In marketing and sales, smaller companies can be seen spending the most compared to medium and larger enterprises at around thirty-five percent. As for business administration though, larger enterprises’ use AI the most at around more than thirty-five percent, compared to the other two which only used under thirty percent of their AI resources. In finance management, large companies were still in the lead at just above twenty-five percent compared to the other two at under twenty-five percent. The large enterprises were still leading in research and development or R&D, where they used over twenty-five percent of their AI for it in comparison to the other two that used AI only below twenty percent.