It's no secret that 2024 was a breakout year for AI, with over $100 billion in funding for the field. This represented almost a third of total global investment in that year.
Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Julie Bort speaks with Gené Teare, senior data editor at Crunchbase News, to dig deeper into this year's modest investment growth from $304 billion to $314 billion in 2023. . The two explore how AI came to be. A dominant force in the landscape. As Teare puts it, “Technology is in a bubble. What bubbles tell us is that if everyone is putting money into a particular sector, it means we're going to get very big results.” It means that
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