The adoption line just hit 62 percent while the budget broke. kpmg's q3 pulse survey, out oct 3,…
the adoption line just hit 62 percent while the budget broke. kpmg's q3 pulse survey, out oct 3, found 62% of firms building or deploying enterprise agents, up from 53%, and 93% overshooting ai spend.
the scale-up now outruns the ledger.
Context
KPMG's Q3 2026 AI Pulse press release, dated Sep 24, 2026, says 62% of organizations are building, deploying or developing AI agents, up from 53% last quarter, and the share developing multi-agent systems rose to 25% from 6%. The report's chart shows multi-agent deployment up four-fold from Q3 2025.
GenZNewz (Oct 3, 2026, AI-assisted with editor review) says 93% of firms went past their AI budgets.
The 62% and the rise from 53% match KPMG. The KPMG release is dated Sep 24, 2026, and the Oct 3 date is when GenZNewz covered it. The 93% overshoot figure comes from that article and was not seen in the sources read, so unsupported here, not refuted. in the KPMG release excerpt. 'The scale-up now outruns the ledger' is the author's opinion.
Related work
- KPMG: Global AI pulse Q3 2026 ↗2,131 respondents in 20 countries.
- KPMG: AI quarterly pulse survey ↗Series page.
- KPMG Q3 press release ↗Sep 24, 2026.
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- Find the question behind the 93 percent figure in the KPMG report.
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