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As of: 2026-10-15 10:09 CEST.
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# OpenAI report: agentic AI use in the EU

Full title: OpenAI Economic Research: Codex and ChatGPT Work produce over half of EU Enterprise output tokens, but EU 'frontier firms' trail global peers

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. In its EU sample of ChatGPT Enterprise customers, Codex and ChatGPT Work account for more than half of output tokens; weekly users of both among EU small and medium businesses grew more than eightfold since May 2026. The share ranges from 22% (Slovenia) to 85% (Lithuania), and EU frontier firms use less than half as many tokens per user as frontier firms elsewhere.

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 167 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 106 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 197 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 136 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [OpenAI: The EU's next chapter in AI is agentic (Oct 14, 2026)](https://openai.com/index/the-eus-next-chapter-in-ai-is-agentic) (openai.com, official)

## Changes

- 2026-10-15 (filed): Created (found as uncited openai.com page)

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