$252.3 billion — total global corporate AI investment in 2024, a 26% increase over 2023. The number of newly funded generative-AI startups nearly tripled.
Source: Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2025.
Why it matters: Capital is flowing into AI faster than into almost any prior technology wave, concentrating in generative AI and the foundation models that underpin it — signaling sustained enterprise demand rather than a passing spike.
Drill down: see the full AI Investment & Funding Statistics 2026 roundup. Related metrics: 88% of organizations use AI · 280-fold drop in AI inference cost.