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AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools (www.tomshardware.com)
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A new survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and reported on by Apolloseems to show that large companies may be tapping the brakes on AI. Large companies (defined as having more than 250 employees) have reduced their AI usage, according to the data (click to expand the Tweet below). The slowdown started in June, when it was at roughly 13.5%, slipping to about 12% at the end of August. Most other lines, representing companies with fewer employees, are also at a decline, with some still increasing.

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the things AI is good at, like reading documentation, one should just get a local model and be done.

I think pouring as much money as big companies in the us has been doing is unwise. But when you have deep pockets, i guess you can afford to gamble.

[–] SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Could you point me to a model to do that and instructions on how get it up and running?

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I'm using Deepseek R1 (8B) and Gemma 3 (12B), installed using LM Studio (which pulls directly from Hugging Face).

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

As the other comment says, LM Studio is probably the easiest tool. Once you've got it installed it's trivial to add new models. Try some out and see what works best for you. Your hardware will be a limit on what you can run though, so keep that in mind.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I dont have the hardware so I'm using "open web ui" to run queries on models accessible via huggingface API.

Works really well. I haven't invested the time to understand how to use workspaces, which allow you to tune models, but aparently its doable.