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The most AI-obsessed companies — the top 1% — spend $7,500 per employee monthly on AI, but that's still well below the ~$16,000 monthly salary of an average software engineer. AI spending is rising fast, up 14.1% last month among heavy users, though most companies spend only $11 monthly per employee.
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