Prime Highlights
- Saudi Arabia’s AI tool adoption more than doubles to 45.2 percent, led by users aged 20 to 29.
- Business AI adoption climbs to 33.1 percent, led by the information and communications sector.
Key Facts
- Information searches top AI use cases at 80.8 percent among Saudi users.
- Internet penetration hits 99.6 percent, with mobile speeds ranking among G20’s top five.
Background
Internet users in Saudi Arabia adopted artificial intelligence tools at more than double last year’s rate, hitting 45.2 percent. The figure comes from the Communications, Space and Technology Commission’s Saudi Internet Report. Young users drove much of this growth.
People aged 20 to 29 used AI tools at the highest rate, 55.7 percent, and the 10 to 19 age group followed close behind at 53.4 percent. Older users lagged well behind, with only 14.8 percent of those aged 60 to 74 using AI tools.
Saudi Arabia’s digital economy push explains much of this surge. The Kingdom treats AI as central to its transformation goals and keeps pouring money into digital infrastructure and skills training. Officials want a workforce built on knowledge and technology, not just resources.
Most users turned to AI for information searches, a use case cited by 80.8 percent of respondents. Idea generation came next at 40.1 percent, and study or education followed at 37.7 percent.
Roughly a quarter of users made images, videos or presentations with AI, and 17.3 percent used it for work tasks. Women outpaced men in adoption, according to the Saudi Press Agency, with 52.8 percent of female users applying AI tools compared with 39.4 percent of male users.
Internet access across Saudi Arabia now reaches 99.6 percent of the population. More than six in ten users stay online at least seven hours a day, and each person consumes an average of 53 gigabytes of mobile data monthly, three times the global figure. Mobile download speeds place the Kingdom among the top five G20 nations.
Businesses adopted AI too. Establishments using AI technologies grew to 33.1 percent, up 20 percent from the previous year, with the information and communications sector leading at 61.1 percent.
This growth ties back to the National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence, a key piece of Vision 2030 that aims for a top-15 global AI ranking and billions of dollars in investment by 2030.
