23% of organizations report scaling an agentic AI system somewhere in the enterprise, and another 39% are experimenting — roughly 62% already engaged with AI agents.
Source: McKinsey QuantumBlack, The State of AI, November 2025.
Why it matters: Agentic AI — systems that take actions, not just generate text — are moving from concept to deployment. Many rely on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for grounded answers, and governance plus mature MLOps are now the leading concerns for enterprises scaling them.
Drill down: see the full Enterprise AI Statistics 2026 roundup. Related metrics: 88% organizational AI adoption · 280-fold drop in inference cost.