Andy Halliday

AI adoption in the working age population is at 16.3% in late 2025.

So only 16% have adopted.

And you can imagine why, you know, globally that's, that seems like a low number globally.

but not so much because there's a lot of people who just aren't literate enough or have access to the AI infrastructure tools like a computer and internet access to really start the adoption process.

But that's very, very widely distributed in terms of those percentages.

The United Arab Emirates is the highest level of adoption among working age population at 64%.

And would we expect that the United States, with all of its AI systems and Silicon Valley and development, all the major players, including the chip designer, NVIDIA, our American companies, you would think that we would be next in line behind the United Arab Emirates with their 64%.

Want to guess where we rank?

24th in the world.

And so we're not really keeping up that way on the public side, the working age population compared to other countries that are really promoting and advancing the use of AI.

All right.

The other thing that came out of that Microsoft AI Economy Institute report, which is interesting, is that deep seek has major traction in the smaller and underserved markets out there.

And that's a cost issue, obviously, like many of the adopters of AI here in the United States and in Europe and elsewhere are paying for.

the major companies or using the free version or paying $20 a month, roughly to get access to those models.

Whereas deep seek is less expensive as an open source model.

And it is used more,

Two to four times higher across the African continent than the other ones.

And a Chinese company, Huawei, which has a lot of the telephone infrastructure, mobile phone infrastructure in those developing countries.

is also partnered with DeepSeek to advance the use of DeepSeek in those countries.

Now, I'm weaving over to something about DeepSeek on the technical side.