20% of EU companies already use artificial intelligence
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According to a recent Eurostat report, 20% of European Union businesses with at least 10 employees will use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in their operations in 2025. This is a major increase from 13.5% in 2024 and just 7.7% in 2021, indicating that the digital transformation of European business is rapidly gaining momentum.
The highest share of AI usage is observed in Denmark (42%), Finland (37.8%) and Sweden (35%). These countries show double-digit growth over the year: in Denmark - +14.5 percentage points, in Finland - +13.5 p.p., in Lithuania - +12.5 p.p.. At the end of the list are Romania (5.2%), Poland (8.4%) and Bulgaria (8.5%).
AI is most commonly used to analyse written language - 11.8% of companies do so. This includes text mining - technologies that extract meaning and structured information from large arrays of texts. In second place is the generation of images, video and sound (9.5%), which was a new trend in the survey and has not been tracked before. This is followed by text or speech generation (8.8%) and spoken language recognition (7.2%).
A separate paragraph highlights technologies such as:
- machine learning and deep learning;
- AI-based robotic process automation (AI-based robotic process automation);
- autonomous devices - from drones to unmanned vehicles;
- image and object recognition.
The steady growth in the use of AI is not just a technological trend, but an indicator of how the structure of labour, productivity and competitiveness is changing. Machine learning, content generation and process automation are increasingly being implemented not only in the IT or financial sectors, but also in logistics, manufacturing, marketing and even legal services.
