AI Spend Is The Fastest Growing Category In Ramp's Dataset
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Ara Kharazian, lead economist at Ramp, discusses corporate spending patterns on generative AI based on Ramp's transaction data.
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“AI spend is the fastest growing spend category we've ever observed in our data set.”
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