• Total funding for the top 20 AI companies is $63.9 billion, with OpenAI accounting for 52%.
  • The next three companies – Databricks, Anthropic, and xAI – together make up nearly 40% of the total.
  • Over 90% of investments go to just four companies, and 85% of top AI startups are from the US.
  • European players like DeepL and Mistral operate with less than $2 billion in funding.
  • Most leading AI startups were founded around 2018, with some reaching multi-billion valuations in just 2-3 years.

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