The venture capital include terms of terms for startups peddle artificial intelligence, but they remain picky when it comes to funding the spectrum of wider technology.
According to new figures from the analysis company, AI startups raised $ 110 billion last year, 62% more than the previous year. At the same time, private companies (startups and scales) in the technological spectrum raised $ 227 billion in 2024, down 12% compared to 2023.
Yoram Wijngarde, the founder of Dealroom, analyzes and advises in the technology industry for decades. Although the markets had a barn moment in the late 1990s and in the early 2000s in terms of investors’ attention, nothing got closer to the impact that AI had on investment in terms of activity and value. “This is the biggest wave of all time by absolute amounts invested,” he said. “There has never been anything like it.”
It seems that it is partly the fact that there is a wider ecosystem affected by AI, covering equipment and infrastructure, applications, fundamental models and more.
A list of some of the largest IA financing laps in 2024 testifies to the various areas that draw attention. Anthropic (Grande Language Models, AI Generative), Waymo (Self-claim), Andundil (Defense), XAI (Applications), Databricks (Data processing and management, in particular AI data) and Vantage (Centers of Data Centers and infrastructure) were among the best -up the largest fundraising of 2024.
Although Openai feels like the AI at the moment, he has not increased the most money last year. This place was taken by Databricks, which raised $ 10 billion, compared to $ 6.6 billion in Openai.
However, with the most overall funding – more than $ 20 billion to date, with an additional $ 40 billion in progress – and a viral application in the form of chatgpt, Openai has come to represent a bell tower in the industry.
Unsurprisingly, its two largest commercial interests, its fundamental models and its generative AI, seem to be the engines that all stimulate funding) in the past two years.
The report of the case was responsible for coinciding with a week of AI events in Paris around the Action of Action of the French Government. Part of the agenda of the event focuses on the question of how to defend the equitable development of AI on more markets, beyond the United States
For those who believe that AI companies are sub-seupported outside this market, the figures of the agreement have rushed how it works. A complete 42% (80.7 billion dollars) in high venture capital in the United States went to IA startups last year, compared to only 25% (12.8 billion dollars) in Europe and 18% in the rest of the world. China took place last year with $ 7.6 billion invested.
“In Europe, we have a little dilemma of innovators,” said Wijngaarde. “We don’t want to replace what we have and that can be a less aggressive position.”
How will the financing of the IA 2024 take place in 2025?
One of the reasons why AI startups have collected so much money is that the construction and operating costs of these services: important language models cost the computer for construction and the execution. The emergence of Deepseek and other projects – one has built a rival to an Openai model for only $ 50 – presents an alternative approach built on open source. Is this something that we will see further developing in the coming year?
Until now, the prospects of open source companies have been quite modest, even counting the disproportionate presence of Mistral (which presents itself as open source) in Europe and Meta’s efforts in space.
Dealroom says that some 12% of IA VC financing last year was rendered to Open Source Building Startups. “However, there is a considerable gray zone for what is considered open source or not,” said Orla Browne, responsible for ideas. “For example, XAI is not included in these figures, because although Grok-1 is open source, Grok-2 is not currently. With the inclusion of Xai alone, the percentage would increase to 22%. »»
As for VC companies, Dealroom noted that Antler was making the most investments in the field last year, with A16Z, General Catalyst, Sequoia and Khosla Ventures completing the first five.
