Cloud and Threat Report: Shadow AI and Agentic AI 2025

LM Studio is used by 0.9% of organisations.

In the three months ended May 2025, users of genAI platforms increased by 50%.

There has been a 50% spike in genAI platform usage among enterprise end-users in the three months ended May 2025.

34% of organisations are currently using Large Language Model (LLM) interfaces.

In May 2025, 41% of organisations were already using at least one genAI platform.

Ollama is used by 33% of organisations.

GitHub Copilot is now used in 39% of organisations.

Over half of all current app adoption among enterprise users is estimated to be shadow AI.

Netskope is tracking more than 1,550 distinct genAI SaaS applications, which is up from just 317 in February.

Network traffic tied to genAI platform usage increased 73% over the prior three-month period.

Approximately 29% of organisations are utilising Microsoft Azure OpenAI.

Ramalama is used by 0.6% of organisations.

5.5% of organisations have users running agents generated from popular AI agent frameworks on-premises.

13% of organisations have users making API calls to api.anthropic.com.

Two-thirds (66%) of organisations have users making API calls to api.openai.com.

Organisations are now using approximately 15 genAI apps, up from 13 in February 2025.

The amount of data uploaded to genAI apps each month has increased from 7.7 GB to 8.2 GB quarter over quarter.

ChatGPT saw its first decrease in enterprise popularity since Netskope started tracking it in 2023.

Grok has entered the top 10 most-used applications for the first time.

Users are downloading resources from Hugging Face at a majority (67%) of organisations.

22% of organisations are utilising Amazon Bedrock.

Grok remains in the top 10 most-blocked apps list

7.2% of organisations are utilising Google Vertex AI.