AI investment: $3B+ · $1.4B EY.ai (2023) + $1B US talent (2024) + $1B EY-Microsoft Frontier initiative; over $3B total committed to AI and next-frontier technology
AI workforce: EY Canvas multi-agent framework deployed to 130,000 audit professionals
Revenue/impact: AI revenue up 30% FY2025 | Copilot: +15% productivity, -37% finance opex, +95% faster processing
Key fact: Proprietary LLM (EYQ). 2026: $1B EY-Microsoft 'Frontier' initiative; first of the Big 4 to put quantum hardware in its own building (Toronto, Jul 2026) inside a $3B+ AI and frontier-tech program. August adds a Daybreak cyber seat.
Daybreak cyber partner; frontier cyber models for defenders
2026
Investment figures are declared/announced amounts. OpenAI's $122B includes conditional and vendor-linked components (~$37B immediate cash). Valuations are post-money where reported. Key claims externally validated June to September 2026 (TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fortune, PR Newswire, firm newsrooms). Relationship years are first-public-announcement years; long-tail partnerships without a public record carry era estimates (flagged yearEstimated). Rumored or unclosed rounds are excluded.
Cite as: "Global AI Ecosystem, September 2026 Strategy Update, Mantu (https://ai-ecosystem.pages.dev)". Full dataset: llms-full.txt · Talk to Mantu