B
Evidence Grade B
Graded
accuracy verified by the review judge
Safe to Cite
Current
44%
44% -- year over year growth rate for worldwide AI spending (2026)
Gartner projects that worldwide AI spending will increase by 44% year-over-year in 2026.
Attribution:
View source
Lighthouse Research Team
Last verified:
·
How we verify data →
Source verified
Evidence graded
Value
44%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
95
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
90
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
86
Source
Gartner
Primary
Tier A
https://www.beet.tv/2026/04/why-legacy-workflows-are-holding-brands-back-from-ai-transformation.html ↗
Source Article
Why Legacy Workflows are Holding Brands Back From AI Transformation – Beet.TV
Why Legacy Workflows are Holding Brands Back From AI Transformation
If you want to get to the future, you may have to let go of the past. But companies that have operated the same way for 30 or 40 years are finding those very practices now stand as barriers to adopting AI.
“The brands that are reall…
Original Research
Gartner
· Original study ↗
Methodology
Gartner projection
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Channelcommon_crawl
Cite this stat
Plain Text
worldwide AI spending: 44% year over year growth rate. Source: Gartner (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gartner-ai-spending-growth-2026
HTML Embed
<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gartner-ai-spending-growth-2026" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>44%</strong> -- year over year growth rate for worldwide AI spending<br><small>Source: Gartner (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gartner-ai-spending-growth-2026" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
Share
Related Statistics
Use this data in your work
Copy the citation, embed the widget, or explore thousands more verified marketing statistics -- all free.