US takes 83% of a $290bn private AI investment boom
Original title: Private investment in AI (External funding for privately held AI companies raising above $1.5 million) · Our World in Data · 20 Apr 2026
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What does the data say about private investment in AI (External funding for privately?
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Private AI funding more than doubled in 2025 to roughly $290bn, after the 2022-23 dip. The US alone raised $240bn, fourteen times Europe and over twenty times China. Capital concentration this extreme will shape where AI champions, talent and compute end up.
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