AI Investments increased by 62% to $ 110 billion in 2024, while startup funding generally decreased by 12%, says the room deal

Risk capitalists get up on time -time sheets, giving artificial intelligence, even when they remain picky when it comes to financing a wider spectrum of technology.

According to the new Analytics FIRC Deatroom, AI startup companies raised $ 110 billion in funding last year, 62% in the previous year. At the same time, private companies (startup companies and scale) across the technology spectrum raised $ 227 billion in 2024, which is 12% of the 2023 numbers.

Yoram Wijngaarde, the founder of the deal, has analyzed and advised in the technology industry for decades. Although the markets had a moment for a drum in the late 1990s and early 2000s in terms of investors’ attention, nothing came close to the impact that AI had on investing in terms of activity and value. “This is the biggest wave of absolute amounts invested,” he said. “There has never been anything like this.”

Part of this, it seems, is the fact that there is a broader ecosystem that touches it, covering hardware and infrastructure, applications, founding models and more.

A list of some of the largest AI company increases in 2024. Talks about the various areas that are attracting attention right now. Anthropic (large language models, generative AI), Waymo (self -driving), Anduril (Defense), XAI (Applications), Databricks (Data Processing and Manage Nourished by The necessary to train and declare data) are among the largest funds for raising funds since 2024.

Although Openai feels like the child on the AI ​​poster at the moment, she did not raise the most money last year. Openai raised $ 6.6 billion for $ 10 billion as a base.

Still, with the most funding, more than $ 20 billion so far, with the work reported that another $ 40 billion is in the work – and a mass -free Viral application in the form of Chatgpt, Openai is to present one kind of bells in the industry.

And so surprisingly, its two biggest business interests, founding AI and generative AI, seem to be the engines under the entire VC activity, with Genai companies raising $ 47.4 billion in 2024 and the founding AI technologies ahead of applications of applications of applications AI with the biggest growth (and A giant financing slices) in the last two years.

The deal reported to coincide with a week of AI events in Paris around the AI ​​summit of the French government. Part of the agenda of the event is focused on the question of how to support the more righteous development of AI in more markets outside the United States

For those who believe that AI companies are under -supported outside this market, the deal is naked how it works. The full 42% ($ 80.7 billion) from the VK raised in the United States went to start -up AI, compared to only 25% ($ 12.8 billion) in Europe and even less, 18% in the rest of the world. China was distinguished last year with $ 7.6 billion invested.

“In Europe, we have a small dilemma of innovators,” Wijngaarde said. “We do not want to replace what we have and this can be an less aggressive position.”

How will the funding of AI play in 2024 in 2025?

One of the reasons why AI startup companies have raised so much money is due to the cost of building and operating these services: large linguistic models cost a lot in the computing infrastructure for construction and execution. The appearance of Deepseek and other projects like the one that Build Openai Model in just $ 50 Imagine an alternative approach built on an open code. This thing we will see further next year?

So far, the prospects for open source companies have been quite modest, even with the huge presence of Mistral (which is mixed as an open code) in Europe and the efforts of Meta in space.

The deal says about 12% of AI VC funding last year went to start -ups that build an open source AI. “However, there is a significant gray area for what is considered open or not,” Orla Brown, the leader of the insights, told me. “For example, XAI is not included in these figures, since while the GROK-1 was open source, GROK-2 is not currently. With the inclusion of only the XAI percentage will increase to 22%. “

Beyond the huge value of funding, for startup companies for AI that want to compare VC that are most interested in the field, the deal found that Antler makes the most investment in the area last year, followed by A16Z, General Catalyst, Sequoia and Khosla Ventures, which rounded off the rounding of A16z, General Catalyst, Sequoia and Khosla Ventures, which rounded from the rounding of the Khosla, which rounded off the rounding of the way which rounded the businesses Khosla and Khosla, which round, round the businesses of Khosla and Hosla Top five.