2025年全球人工智能应用：日益扩大的数字鸿沟

Executive Summary Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to risein the second half of 2025, increasing by 1.2 percentagepoints compared to the first half of the year, with roughlyone in six people worldwide now using generative AI tools,remarkable progress for a technology that only recentlyentered mainstream use. To track this trend, we measure AI diffusion as the share ofpeople worldwide who have used a generative AI productduring the reported period. This measure is derived fromaggregated and anonymized Microsoft telemetry and thenadjusted to reflect differences in OS and device-marketshare, internet penetration, and country population.Additional details on the methodology are available inourAI Diffusion technical paper. [1] Despite progress in AI adoption, the data shows a wideningdivide: adoption in the Global North grew nearly twice as fastas in the Global South. As a result, 24.7 percent of the workingage population in the Global North is now using these tools,compared to only 14.1 percent in the Global South. No single metric is perfect, and this one is no exception.Through the Microsoft AI Economy Institute, we continueto refine how we measure AI diffusion globally, includinghow adoption varies across countries in ways thatbest advance priorities such as scientific discovery andproductivity gains. For this report, we rely on the strongestcross-country measure available today, and we expect tocomplement it over time with additional indicators as theyemerge and mature. Countries that have invested early in digital infrastructure,AI skilling, and government adoption, such as the UnitedArab Emirates, Singapore, Norway, Ireland, France, andSpain, continue to lead. The UAE extended its lead as the#1 ranked country, with 64.0 percent of the working agepopulation using AI at the end of 2025, compared to 59.4percent earlier in the year. The UAE has opened a lead ofmore than three percentage points over Singapore, whichcontinues in second place with 60.9 percent adoption. China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, and Belarus. But perhaps evenmore notable is DeepSeek’s surging popularity acrossAfrica, where it is aided by strategic promotion andpartnerships with firms such as Huawei.[3] This rapid evolution underscores an increasingly importantdimension of AI competition between the United Statesand China, involving a race to promote adoption of theirrespective national models. DeepSeek’s success reflectsgrowing Chinese momentum across Africa, a trend thatmay continue to accelerate in 2026. DeepSeek’s ascentalso underscores a broader truth: the global diffusion of AIis influenced by accessibility factors, and the next wave ofusers may come from communities that have historicallyhad limited access to technological progress. The challengeahead is ensuring that innovation spreads in ways that helpnarrow divides rather than deepen them. The second half of the year in the United States shows thatleadership in innovation and infrastructure, while critical,does not by themselves lead to broad AI adoption. TheU.S. leads in both AI infrastructure and frontier modeldevelopment, but it fell from 23rd to 24th place in AI usageamong the working age population, with a 28.3 percentusage rate. It lags far behind smaller, more highly digitizedand AI-focused economies. South Korea stands out as the clearest end-of-yearsuccess story. It surged seven spots in the global rankings,climbing from 25th to 18th, driven by government policies,improved frontier model capabilities in the Koreanlanguage, and consumer-facing features that resonatedwith the population. Generative AI is now used in schools,workplaces, and public services, and South Korea hasbecome one of ChatGPT’s fastest-growing markets, leadingOpenAI to open an office in Seoul.[2] A parallel development reshaping the global landscapein 2025 was the rapid rise of DeepSeek, an open-sourceAI platform that has gained significant traction in marketslong underserved by traditional providers. By releasing itsmodel under an open-source MIT license and offering acompletely free chatbot, DeepSeek removed both financialand technical barriers that limit access to advanced AI. Itsstrongest adoption, not surprisingly has emerged across Changes in the second half of 2025 New data from the second half of 2025 shows the worldis using artificial intelligence at record levels, but it alsoreveals a widening divide. Global adoption of generativeAI tools reached 16.3 percent of the world’s population,up from 15.1 percent in the first half of 2025, ameaningful gain for technologies still in their early years.Today, roughly one in six people are using AI to learn,work, or solve problems. When looking at the economies driving the fastestgains, the imbalance becomes even clearer. Of the tencountries with the largest increases in AI adoption share,all are high-income economies. South Korea and theUnited Arab Emirates stand out, each posting growthrates above four percentage points, under