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【OpenAI: Significant Gap in AI Agent Usage Intensity Among EU Enterprises】OpenAI Economic Research Team October 14 published a report stating that EU enterprises are using AI agent tools to expand their AI use cases, rather than merely asking AI questions, and are instead using agents to complete tasks from planning through execution. The report examined the growth of agent usage by large and small enterprises, differences in usage intensity, and the types of work people complete with ChatGPT. Among the EU sample of ChatGPT Enterprise customers,Codex and ChatGPT work currently account for more than half of output tokens. Since 2026 May year, the number of weekly active users of Codex and ChatGPT work among EU small and medium-sized enterprises has increased to more than 8.1 times the original level, with growth in every Member State. The article defines small and medium-sized enterprises as businesses with no more than 200 associated users. The lowest share of relevant output tokens in the sample was 22%in Slovenia, and the highest was 85%in Lithuania. Leading enterprises are defined as those in the top 10%by output tokens per active user; the sample includes only ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Business accounts.September The figure for leading EU enterprises was more than four times that of typical EU enterprises, while leading enterprises outside the EU still exceeded leading EU enterprises by more than twofold. Enterprises headquartered in the EU accounted for only 10%。