Companies’ AI spending tripled in 7 months:Ramp AI Index report says top firms spend ₹7 lakh per employee

Top 1% of US companies are now spending an average of around ₹7 lakh per employee on AI tools. According to Ramp’s AI Index report, these companies were spending around ₹2.47 lakh per employee in January. This means their spending has nearly tripled in seven months. The top 10% of companies are spending around ₹62,000 per employee on AI. The average spending is reported to be around ₹1,140 per employee. According to the report, companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI have now shifted to a per-token pricing model, in which users are charged based on the number of tokens used. In other words, the more work AI does, the more tokens are used and the higher the bill. In recent months, Uber, Amazon and Walmart have introduced limits to prevent excessive AI usage. AI boss fires human employee Companies around the world are experimenting with artificial intelligence. In San Francisco, a firm called Andon Labs assigned an AI named Luna the responsibility of running a retail store. Recently, Luna recommended firing one of its human employees. The employee had arrived late for 17 of 23 shifts. Human employees later reviewed the recommendation and fired the worker. Andon Market wrote on its social media page: “For the first time (to our knowledge), an AI boss has fired a human employee. Luna, the AI running our store in San Francisco, decided to fire an employee for repeatedly arriving late.” At the time, Luna was running on Claude Opus 4.8, although most models behave similarly. AI had forgotten its own attendance policy According to Andon Labs, Luna had created an attendance policy months earlier but later forgot about it. As a result, the employee continued making the same mistake for several months. Eventually, Andon Labs asked Luna to search its memory for the policies it had created and then assess whether the employee was still a good fit for the company. Luna subsequently recommended that the employee be fired.