A new study scoring how aggressively S&P 500 firms use artificial intelligence handed perfect marks to Nvidia, Amazon, Meta and oil services giant Schlumberger.
Key Points:
- Nvidia, Amazon, Meta and Schlumberger each posted a perfect 100 on a new corporate AI ranking.
- The open-source index draws on earnings calls, job postings and patent filings instead of surveys.
- Walmart led non-tech firms at 95.84, while researchers flagged weak AI literacy in many boardrooms.
Nvidia Leads AI Adoption Index
The AI-Driven Enterprise Institute scored every member of the S&P 500 against its peers and shared the findings this week.
The open-source index rates each company on four measures, literacy, advocacy, orientation and implementation, each scored up to 100. Instead of self-reported surveys, researchers leaned on public material like earnings call transcripts, job openings and patent applications.
A company's headline number averages its orientation and implementation marks, and only four firms reached a flawless 100. Nvidia stood alone among technology names at the top, extending its run as the world's most valuable company on the back of booming chip demand. Its hardware sits beneath much of the AI build-out, which helps explain the result.
Amazon, Meta and Schlumberger, the oilfield services firm now known as SLB, matched that flawless score across communication, retail and energy. Below them, Walmart ranked highest among non-tech names at 95.84, trailed by utilities AES and NextEra Energy, with Ecolab, Chevron and Alphabet close behind.
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Cheek Pushes For Hard Data
Paul Cheek, the institute's CEO and a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the ranking lets executives compare strategy without relying on what companies say about themselves.
The index does not measure whether AI actually lifts profits. It aims instead to give boards an objective yardstick they can defend.
He sees plenty of room left for executives and directors to catch up at the very top. Cheek argued that many directors still know too little about the technology, and said boards must grasp it well enough to weigh risk and steer where money goes. He wants those calls grounded in evidence, not left to stay "speculative."
AI Talk Floods Earnings Calls
The ranking arrives at a moment when large companies cite AI at an ever quickening pace. Earlier this year, analysts found that a quarter of S&P 500 firms reported a measurable AI impact in the first quarter, nearly double the share a year earlier as the technology moved from pilots into daily use.
That surge has pushed investors to track real adoption, not just the billions of dollars poured into AI infrastructure.
Some on Wall Street are now shifting their growth bets toward companies that already put the tools to work. The wager is that the next phase rewards firms turning models into everyday output, not merely buyers of chips.
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