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title: AI Priorities Executive Summary
description: Foundry AI Priorities Study highlights AI and Generative AI use cases, investment and usage levels, and the challenges that IT decision-makers face.
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Executive summary

## AI: It's ROI time

Foundry’s third annual AI Priorities Study, was conducted to gain an understanding of how organizations are leveraging artifical intelligence, specifically looking at their investment and implementation levels, use cases, measures of success and challenges. 

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