Artificial Intelligence Investment decreased by 62 % to $ 110 billion in 2024 while the startup financing generally decreased by 12 %, says Dealroom.

The owners of capitalists in the project are devoured the range of the emerging companies that collect artificial intelligence, even as they remain difficult to please when it comes to financing the broader spectrum of technology.

According to new numbers from the Analysis Chamber, startups of artificial intelligence raised $ 110 billion in financing last year, an increase of 62 % in the previous year. Meanwhile, private sector -backed companies (startups and expansion) gathered through the full technology spectrum $ 227 billion in 2024, a 12 % decrease from 2023 numbers.

Yuram Wigngardi, the founder of Dealroom, has been analyzing and providing advice in the technology industry for decades. Although the markets had a wonderful moment in the late 1990s and early decade of the twentieth century in terms of the investor’s interest, anything was not close to the impact of artificial intelligence on investment in terms of activity and value. “This is the largest wave ever by the absolute investing amounts,” he said. “There was nothing like that.”

It seems part of the reason for this is that there is a broader environmental system that is touched by it, and covers devices, infrastructure, applications, constituent models and more.

A list of some of the largest AI in 2024 speaks to the various fields that attract attention at the present time. Antarbur (large language models, Amnesty International), Waymo (Self -Leadership), Anduril (Defense), Xai (App), data data (data processing and management, especially artificial intelligence data) and Vantage (data and infrastructure centers, which are fed by growth By you need to train and query data) Among the ten best donations in 2024.

Although Openai appears to be the child’s affixed child at the present time, he has not collected the largest amount of money last year. Openaii picked $ 6.6 billion, for $ 10 billion for Databricks.

However, with the largest funding in the total – more than 20 billion dollars so far, with another $ 40 billion in business – and a large virus application in the form of Chatgpt, Openai has become a kind of bell in the industry.

Therefore, it is not surprising, it seems that the biggest commercial interests for them, the founding AI and AI Tawlidi, are the engines under all VC activity, as GENAI companies raised $ 47.4 billion in 2024, and you can of the founding AI technology with artificial intelligence applications a giant segment of financing ) During the past two years.

The Deal Room report was assigned to coincide with a week of artificial intelligence events in Paris about the AI’s action summit for the French government. Part of the event’s agenda focuses on the issue of how to connect the development of artificial intelligence to more through more markets, outside the United States

For those who believe that artificial intelligence companies are supported outside this market, Dealroom numbers lie in how this is done. He went by 42 % (80.7 billion dollars) from VC raised in the United States to startups, compared to only 25 % ($ 12.8 billion) in Europe and even less, 18 %, across the rest of the world. China was highlighted last year at 7.6 billion dollars invested.

“In Europe we have a little creators’ dilemma,” said Wijngaarde. “We don’t want to replace what we have and can be a less aggressive position.”

How will AI 2024 financing play in 2025?

One of the reasons why emerging companies of artificial intelligence have collected a lot of money due to the costs of building and operating these services: the cost of large language models in the computing infrastructure for construction and operation. Dibsic and other projects such as this I built a competitor for the Openai model for only $ 50 Providing an alternative approach based on the open source. Is this something we will develop in the next year?

To date, the possibilities of companies were somewhat open sources, even with the huge Mistral (which describes itself as an open source) in Europe, and the Meta efforts in space.

Deal Room says that about 12 % of AI VC financing last year went to startups, construction of Amnesty International, the source. “However, there is a great gray space for what is considered open source or not,” Orla Brown, the head of the visions. “For example, Xai is not included in these numbers, as in Grok-1 source open, Grok-2 is not currently. With Xai insert alone, the percentage rises to 22 %.”

Besides the value of the huge financing, for the startups AI looking to match the VCS more interested in this field, Deal Room found that Antler has achieved the most investment in this field, followed by A16z, General Catalyst, Sequoia and Khosla Ventures Rounding Ot of the The highest five.