Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the headline for tech industry trends since 2023. Many people from the tech industry believed that AI was just a bubble. There has been constant growth in AI investment in recent years. The Return on Investment (ROI) from investing in AI is sceptical to a large crowd. But the recent adoption of AI by different governments like the US & EU gave hope, and huge investments have been made in developing AI infrastructure. Let us discuss in detail how AI investments would be fruitful to the entire tech industry.
Recent AI Investments
Major tech organizations are pumping a huge sum of capital into AI. Some of the major investments are:
Social media giant Meta has promised to spend up to 65 billion dollars to expand its AI capabilities. Meta’s CEO Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, stated this investment would be primarily used for innovation in AI technology. He also states that the year 2025 will be an important year in the history of AI.
Microsoft has promised to invest up to 80 billion USD to AI related innovations. Microsoft Corporation focuses on developing AI solutions that provide more value to its Azure cloud platform. This fund will also be used to develop AI solutions for dedicated data centres and networking.
Google’s parent organization Alphabet has planned to invest $75 billion dollars to develop AI infrastructure. has many AI products, such as Google Home, Gemini, etc., The promised investment will be used to develop the efficiency of existing AI products and to develop new AI products.
Amazon announced $100 billion dollars which is one of the biggest AI investments. Amazon planned to use most of this investment to enhance Amazon Web Services (AWS) capabilities with AI technology. Amazon believes 2025 will be a transformative year in the history of Artificial Intelligence growth.
E-commerce giant Alibaba promised to invest nearly $52 billion by 2027 to improve its cloud and AI infrastructure. Alibaba is trying to win its position as a cloud computing leader in the Asia Pacific region. Alibaba also mentioned that it is already ahead of the AI race in the APAC region.
Cisco has already invested in AI startups like Mistral AI, Scale AI & Cohere. In addition to that, Cisco launched a $1 billion Global AI investment fund. Cisco has committed a sum of $200 million dollars in the fund. Derek Idemoto, SVP of Cisco, states that this fund represents an unwavering commitment of investors to AI innovations.
AI Market Size
The advancements in machine learning and generative AI models have greatly increased the AI market valuation. Abundant AI investment has paved a way for developers to innovate many useful AI tools. The AI market size is projected to grow exponentially from $200 billion in 2024 to more than $1000 billion dollars in 2030. The average Year-on-Year growth from 2024 to 2030 is more than 36%, which is higher than the 30% YoY benchmark.
Apart from individual contribution, AI is capable of enhancing existing industries. AI is very helpful in improving labour productivity and automating repetitive tasks. According to research by PwC, AI will boost up to 26% of GDP for local economies in 2030. AI has the potential to contribute $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030. The research also states product enhancements, simulation consumer demand gives 45% of total economic gains by AI in 2030.
Upcoming AI Summits and Conferences
AI will be the next transformative tool that will impact the fundamental functioning of every business. AI is still an evolving technology. People from different industry sectors are keeping a close eye on the development of AI. Summits and conferences are the best way to bring people together with the same thought process.
The following are the upcoming AI summits and conferences. Participating in these conferences gives you the opportunity to stay updated on the progress of AI tech.
RADAR SKILLS EDITION
RADAR SKILLS Edition by Data Camp primarily focuses on helping individuals and businesses explore the real potential of AI technology. The best part about this conference is the resource persons and keynote speakers.
Delegates have the amazing opportunity to hear from the best Tech advisors and top executives of AI & data companies. This conference will also be an eye-opener for how AI upskilling will be the most useful in the current market trend.
Scheduled On: March 27, 2025.
Click on the Link to Register for Radar Skills Edition 2025
DATA + AI SUMMIT 2025
Databricks is set to organize one of the largest summits for data, analytics, and AI. More than 20,000 people registered for the event. Keynote speakers in this summit include experts, researchers, and open-source contributors. 700+ sessions planned in this conference focusing on data warehousing, AI governance, Machine learning and Open API integrations.
Participants of this summit get exclusive experience on the Databricks Data Intelligence Program, Delta Lake, MLFlow, LangChain, PyTorch, and many new innovations from Databrick’s sponsors and partners. This summit is going to be held in San Francisco & Virtual mode (Hybrid).
Scheduled on: June 09-12.
Click on the Link to Register for the DATA + AI Summit 2025
THE AI SUMMIT NEW YORK 2025
The AI Summit Series has gathered investors, executives, enthusiasts, and developers across the globe since 2016. The mission of the AI Summit Series is to harness AI & showcase groundbreaking solutions to practical business applications. The AI Summit 2024 turned out to be the most impactful event in AI World.
The AI Summit invites more than 5000 startups and 1,000+ speakers in 2025. More than 30,000 delegates attend the AI Summit every year. The AI Summit New York has Top executives, Vice Presidents, and Policy makers as their keynote speakers. More than a conference, The AI Summit New York gives access to the following arenas
- The AI Accelerator Hub
- AI Investment Awareness
- The Hackathon
- The AI Playground
- The Alconics Award (Considered to be a Prestigious Award in the Field of AI)
Scheduled On: December 10-11, 2025.
Click on the Link to Register for The AI Summit New York 2025
Top AI Startups Received Huge Investments
Open AI – Open AI is the largest AI startup in the world with a valuation of $157 billion dollars. Open AI received $6.6 billion dollars as the second round of investment from Thrive Capital. Notably, ChatGPT by Open AI democratised this AI tech to the common public. Investments made by major investment groups like SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft are key reasons for this revolutionary reach.
DataBricks – DataBricks is an AI startup that helps businesses to process their vast amount of data intelligently. Data analytics, Data Management, finding patterns and generating valuable KPI, and decision-making are made easy by Databrick’s Data Intelligence Program. Databricks received a huge $10 billion investment from multiple investment firms like DST Global, GIC, WCM Investment Management, and Thrive Capital.
Tenstorrent – Tenstorrent is an emerging hardware startup that focuses on producing hardware specially to support AI computational speed. Tenstorrent brings experts from the fields of ASIC design, computer architecture, and advanced edge systems to invent the next generation of computing devices. Tenstorrent received around $693 million as an AI investment. This investment would help Tenstorrent venture into new markets and increase its R&D spending.
xAI—Elon Musk’s xAI is the creator of the Grok AI tool. Grok 3 was introduced as an alternative to existing GPT models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity. xAI received $6 billion from different investment firms, including Sequoia Capital.
Enfabrica – Enfabrica is a startup that is committed to creating high-performance networking chips with inbuilt AI. Enfabrica’s software-hardware codesign approach allows enhanced communication between AI data center infrastructures across the globe. Enfabrica received $115 million dollars in the Series C round led by Spark capital. Enfabrica has also benefitted from Cisco’s Global AI Investment Fund.
Conclusion
Investors are betting huge sums on Artificial Intelligence (AI), and it will be on the rise. AI has the capacity to boost economic growth by transforming various industries like Manufacturing, professional services, retail, telecommunication, healthcare, hospitality, and agriculture.
Gross Value Addition (GVA) to all industries by Artificial Intelligence is the key and visible ROI for the investments. It is quite evident that Governments and tech corporations are pushing hard to win their position in this AI race. Investments and developments in AI tech strongly indicate that AI will be the next transformative wave in the tech industry after the internet. Stay tuned to learn more about AI & other trending technologies.
