PitchBook：2024年四季度人工智能和机器学习风险投资趋势报告（英文版）

Before Chinese AI startup DeepSeek rocked global technology stocks in January 2025, there was a massive and unprecedented wave of investment across the AI & machine learning (ML) sector in Q4 2024. The quarter saw an astonishing $58.7 billion in capital raised, topping the prior high of $45.9 billion in 2021 by nearly 28%. This was driven largely by megadeals across the familiar big hitters of Databricks ($10 billion), OpenAI ($6.6 billion), xAI ($6 billion), Waymo ($5.6 billion), and Ant