site.btaBulgarian Enterprises Rank 25th in AI Use in EU

In 2024, 13.5% of enterprises in the EU with 10 or more employees used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to conduct their business, indicating a 5.5 percentage points (pp) growth from 8% in 2023, according to Eurostat data, published on Thursday.

Last year, Bulgaria ranked 25th in the EU in the share of companies that used AI technologies in their business (6.5%), trailed by Poland (5.9%) and Romania (3.1%).

The highest shares of these enterprises were in Denmark (27.6%), Sweden (25.1%) and Belgium (24.7%). 

Last year, Bulgaria moved up one position in this ranking compared to 2023, when it was the penultimate country in the EU (26th place.

Artificial intelligence technologies are being integrated into systems that are used to analyze text and extract information from it, to transcribe voice messages as well as for recognition, and to generate language patterns.