OpenAI report: agentic AI use in the EU
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The takeaway
On Oct 14, 2026 OpenAI published “The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic”, a report from OpenAI Economic Research on agent use by EU businesses.
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- 15 October 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra167 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5106 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon197 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7136 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 106 days before it.
Key facts
- Agentic share: among EU ChatGPT Enterprise customers in OpenAI’s sample, Codex and ChatGPT Work account for more than half of output tokens
- SMBs (200 or fewer users): weekly active users of Codex and ChatGPT Work grew more than eightfold since May 2026, in every member state
- Spread: agentic share of Enterprise output tokens from 22% in Slovenia to 85% in Lithuania
- Frontier gap (top 10% of firms by output tokens per active user, Enterprise and Business accounts): in September EU frontier firms used over 4x the tokens per active user of typical EU firms, but frontier firms outside the EU used over 2x as many as EU frontier firms; EU firms are only 10% of frontier firms globally
- Data are OpenAI’s own usage measurements; the full report is a PDF linked from the post
What happened
OpenAI’s economics team published a usage report aimed at EU policymakers, measuring how much EU business use of ChatGPT has shifted to agentic tools (Codex and ChatGPT Work) and how unevenly. It appeared the same week as the EU AI Office’s information requests to OpenAI and Anthropic about agent incidents.
Why it matters
It is a rare quantitative look at agent adoption by country, and it frames Europe’s problem as depth of use rather than access. All figures come from OpenAI’s own data and sample definitions.
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- OpenAI: The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic (Oct 14, 2026)openai.com, official
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