AI Investment Trends: 2013-2024 Unveiled
The article highlights the investment trend in AI in last decade ( from 2013 to 2024). Artificial intelligence has seen an explosive rise in corporate investment in last decade. It grew from around 17 billion dollar in 2013 to peak over 360 billion dollar in 2021. This massive capital flow highlights AI’s transformative potential. It impacts industries like healthcare, finance, transportation, and defense, to name a few.
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Investment Trend in AI : Documented By Investment Type
The data is sourced from OurWorldInData. As per this data the total investment in AI in last decade is around 1.58 trillion dollars. The data underestimates the overall AI investment. It captures a certain type of investments that are disclosed. However, it provides a window on how AI is funded by different stakeholders.
AI investment is classified into four categories:
- Merger and Acquisition: Big events where the companies collaborate to merged or acquired by other organizations. The big companies have been on a spree and the whole market is in the process of consolidation. For example Apple has acquired more than 20 AI startups in last decade. PrimeSense was one of it’s biggest acquisition. Microsoft has also acquired many companies. The largest acquisition was Nuance Communication for a record deal of 19 billion dollars.
- Private Investment: Private equity investment in artificial intelligence companies of more than 1.5 million dollars. It is generally done through
- Public Offering : This is the sale of equity shares to the public. AI companies use this method to raise capital. Other types of sales can also be included.
- Minority stake : is an ownership interest of less than 50% of the total shares of a company.
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