AI in Practice Survey 2025

“Overall, 80% of respondents are fine-tuning however this is driven by larger enterprises. 52.4% of start-ups are not (versus 17% for larger companies). This implies that early-stage buyers need out-of-the-box quality and lighter PromptOps; heavy post-training is a mid-to-large enterprise muscle.”

“Overall, 80% of respondents are fine-tuning however this is driven by larger enterprises. 52.4% of start-ups are not (versus 17% for larger companies). This implies that early-stage buyers need out-of-the-box quality and lighter PromptOps; heavy post-training is a mid-to-large enterprise muscle.”

“Over 99% of respondents are assessing quality, and predominantly with AI evaluations. Everyone is doing evaluations now, both manual and automated. We see a broad array of techniques for automation – regression tests, verification, and error analyses. These evaluations are spread surprisingly evenly across dev stage.”