Applied AI, profession by profession.

DBS Bank (Singapore) scaled AI/ML and data-analytics across more than 430 use cases powered by over 2,000 models, spanning risk management, controls and back-office productivity. In 2025 these initiatives generated approximately S$1 billion in economic value, up from S$370 million in FY2023. Source ↗

In a six-week after-school randomised trial, about 800 senior-secondary students used a generative-AI tutor under teacher supervision. Students improved by roughly 0.3 standard deviations — gains the World Bank estimated as close to two years of typical learning in six weeks — and did better on their regular end-of-year exams. Source ↗

Klarna used generative AI image tools (Midjourney, DALL-E, Adobe Firefly) plus an internal 'Copy Assistant' that now produces about 80% of its marketing copy. The company reported cutting image-production costs by around $6 million, compressing the image-production cycle from six weeks to seven days, and attributing roughly $10 million in annualised marketing savings to AI while reducing external marketing-agency spend by 25% (company-reported figures, May 2024). Source ↗

The UK's largest commercial news publisher built Guten, an in-house generative-AI tool that drafts and repurposes stories with a human-in-the-loop review by journalists before publication. It cut the time to publish breaking news from nine minutes to 90 seconds and, according to WAN-IFRA, now supports around a quarter of the publisher's total output. Source ↗

An ambient AI scribe listens to the visit, with patient consent, and drafts the clinical note straight into the record, freeing physicians from typing. In its first ten weeks, 3,442 physicians used it across as many as 303,266 encounters, with reduced documentation time; Kaiser has since reported the tool supporting more than 4 million encounters. Source ↗

On a $149M Texas highway project (I-10, Graytown to Bexar County Line), Zachry Construction used ALICE Technologies' generative-AI scheduling tool to run about 60 schedule scenarios in roughly three minutes; by resequencing the work and reducing flat-work crews from nine to seven, the team reported cutting 28 days from the schedule. (Outcome as reported by Zachry and ALICE's founder, not independently third-party verified.) Source ↗

India's national skilling platform applies AI/ML for skill discovery and course recommendation and, from October 2024, added the Skill India Assistant — a multilingual AI chatbot on WhatsApp (built on Meta's Llama, developed with Sarvam AI) that helps learners find courses, skilling centres and jobs 24/7 in English, Hindi and Hinglish. The government reports the platform has onboarded over 1.5 crore (about 15 million) candidates. Source ↗

The government's in-house AI tool 'Consult' grouped more than 50,000 responses to the Independent Water Commission consultation into policy themes in about two hours at a cost of £240 — work that would otherwise take weeks — with human experts needing only 22 hours to review and validate the output. DSIT estimates that using Consult across the 500-plus consultations government runs each year could save around 75,000 days of manual analysis, worth roughly £20 million in staff time. Source ↗

JPMorgan Chase built LLM Suite, its own secure generative-AI platform, and onboarded 200,000 employees within eight months of its summer-2024 launch, using it as a firm-wide assistant for drafting, summarising and idea generation that saves users several hours a week; American Banker named it 2025 Innovation of the Year. Source ↗

Chipotle deployed Paradox's conversational AI hiring assistant, 'Ava Cado,' across its 3,500-plus US restaurants to answer applicant questions, collect details, schedule interviews and send offers. Chipotle reported the tool nearly doubled applications and cut the time from application to starting the job from 12 days to four — reducing time-to-hire by up to 75% — while freeing restaurant managers to focus on operations as it scaled hiring for peak season. Source ↗

Google deployed AI code generation across its engineering organisation, with AI drafting code that human engineers then review and accept. On its Q3 2024 earnings call (29 October 2024), CEO Sundar Pichai reported that more than a quarter of all new code at Google is now generated by AI. Source ↗

The Cabinet Office's Government Communications team built 'Assist' in-house — a bespoke generative AI tool that drafts and reviews communications content for UK government communicators. Since its November 2023 pilot it has been used by over 50% of government communicators across more than 200 government organisations and has saved thousands of hours of work (as of May 2025). Source ↗

CAL FIRE and UC San Diego deployed ALERTCalifornia, a network of more than 1,200 AI-enabled cameras feeding all 21 CAL FIRE command centres that automatically scan for smoke and alert dispatchers. In 2025 the system helped CAL FIRE respond to about 3,600 wildfire incidents, flagging more than half before any 911 call was placed. Source ↗

Moderna's leadership deployed OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise company-wide and enabled staff to build their own AI assistants; within about two months employees had created more than 750 custom GPTs across legal, research, manufacturing and commercial functions, with the legal team reaching 100% adoption. Source ↗

In firm-wide generative AI trials (November 2023 to March 2024) involving 411 partners, lawyers and staff across 23 offices in 14 countries, Ashurst measured first-draft time savings of about 80% on UK corporate filings, 59% on sector research reports and 45% on legal briefings. The firm stressed that human review remained essential (its lawyers' outputs still out-scored AI on accuracy) and framed the gains as freeing lawyers to focus on higher-value work. Source ↗

Nuru is a free, offline smartphone app that uses deep-learning computer vision to help African smallholder farmers and agricultural extension agents diagnose crop diseases in the field. In peer-reviewed testing it diagnosed cassava viral-disease symptoms more accurately (65%) than extension agents (40-58%) or farmers (18-31%), and has been scaled out as a public good to smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa. Source ↗

HSBC deployed an AI-based anti-money-laundering system, Dynamic Risk Assessment (co-developed with Google Cloud), to screen around 980 million transactions a month; it detects two to four times more financial crime with 60% fewer false-positive alerts than its previous rules-based system, letting compliance investigators focus on genuine risk. Source ↗