MIT Report: Most Organizations See No Business Return on Gen AI InvestmentsA recent report out of the MIT Media Lab found that despite $30-40 billion in enterprise spending on generative AI, 95% of organizations are seeing no business return. What the 'Gen AI Divide' MeansThe divide is defined by high adoption but low transformation. Pilot-to-Production: Where Most Efforts StallThe sharpest evidence of the divide is deployment: "only 5% of custom enterprise AI tools reach production." The report characterized this as a 95% failure rate for enterprise AI solutions and attributes it to brittle workflows, weak contextual learning, and misalignment with day-to-day operations. The report summarized this gap succinctly: "ChatGPT's very limitations reveal the core issue behind the Gen AI Divide: it forgets context, doesn't learn, and can't evolve."