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2025 Generative AI Survey

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The survey should take ~10 minutes. Your answers will help developers and other IT professionals build smarter, more intelligent AI/ML applications and systems.

We'll analyze responses and publish our findings in our upcoming Generative AI Trend Report, scheduled for release this March. Thank you for your participation!

 
1. Which of the following AI-/ML-related roles, to your knowledge, exist at your organization? Select all that apply.
Note: Specific title matches are not necessary; select an option if you feel your organization has a roughly equivalent role.
2. Which of the following open-source AI tools, frameworks, and/or APIs do you use to build software? Select all that apply.
3. Which of the following AI platforms do you use to assist with your work? Select all that apply.
4. Which of the following do you consider worthwhile applications of AI/ML in the enterprise? Select all that apply.
5. What steps does your organization actively employ to secure AI practices and implementations, like LLMs, vector databases, etc.? Select all that apply.
6. Describe your organization's ability to defend AI applications built by internal AI teams against security threats like prompt injections, DoS attacks, and sensitive data leakage.

Multimodal AI

7. What modalities do you think are most important in multimodal AI applications? Select all that apply.
8. Have you worked on or experimented with multimodal AI models in your projects?
9. In what areas do you see the most value in multimodal AI? Select all that apply.
10. Compared to single-modality models, do you think multimodal AI significantly improves performance?

Embracing Generative AI

11. How would you describe your organization's GenAI maturity level?
12. Which of the following ethics concerns has your organization raised and/or faced with regards to GenAI? Select all that apply.
13. Does your organization currently use, or is considering using, chatbots or other conversational AI technologies?
In what ways does your organization use chatbots or other conversational AI technologies? Select all that apply.
14. How does your organization integrate neural networks into GenAI applications? Select all that apply.
15. Compared to traditional machine learning methods, how do you rate the effectiveness of neural networks in GenAI?
16. In your opinion, what are the key advantages of neural networks for GenAI? Select all that apply.

The Influence of LLMs

17. Does your organization currently use, or is considering using, large language models (LLMs)?
In what ways does your organization use LLM technology? Select all that apply.
What are your observed benefits from using LLM technology? Select all that apply.
What are your observed challenges from using LLM technology?
18. Have you or your organization implemented Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in a production environment?
19. Have you or your organization integrated knowledge graphs into AI-powered search or retrieval systems?
20. What are the primary use cases where you see RAG being beneficial? Select all that apply.

Intelligent Search

21. What types of intelligent search technologies have you or your organization used or implemented? Select all that apply.
How has intelligent search improved your or your organization's ability to find relevant information?
In your opinion, in what areas has intelligent search had the most noticeable impact in your organization? Select all that apply.
22. Have you used a vector database in a GenAI or search-related project?
Which vector databases have you worked with? Select all that apply.
In which areas have you seen the most impact from vector databases in AI-driven search? Select all that apply.

Emerging Tech

23. Have you worked with autonomous AI agents in any of your projects?
24. In your opinion, what are the most promising use cases for agentic AI in your organization? Select all that apply.
25. How concerned are you about the risks associated with AI superintelligence?
26. What do you see as the greatest risks of AI superintelligence? Select all that apply.

Background and Experience

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27. What types of software are you currently developing? Select all that apply.
28. What programming language ecosystems does your company use? Select all that apply.
29. What is your primary programming language at work?
Response should be between 0-60 This question requires a valid number format.
31. What best describes your primary role in your company? *This question is required.
32. What is the size of your organization in terms of employees? *This question is required.
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