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# Funding for AI infrastructure and models nearly quadrupled to $143.2B in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-investment-by-focus-area/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:14:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:01:38.000Z
- Description: AI infrastructure, models, research and governance drew $143.2B in 2025, more than four times the next focus area.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Investment, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-investment

$143.2B

private investment in AI infrastructure, models, research and governance in 2025, up from $37.3B

2025$143.2B

2024$37.3B

## What the chart shows

The focus area covering AI infrastructure, foundation models, research and governance drew $143.2 billion of private investment in 2025, up from $37.3 billion in 2024\. The next largest, data management and processing, drew $31.6 billion.

Internet of things ($14.6 billion) and medical and healthcare ($11.8 billion) completed the top four in 2025.

## Key numbers

| Measure                            | Value   |
| ---------------------------------- | ------- |
| AI infrastructure and models, 2025 | $143.2B |
| Same area, 2024                    | $37.3B  |
| Data management, processing, 2025  | $31.6B  |
| Internet of things, 2025           | $14.6B  |

## How to read it

- Focus areas are Quid’s classification; a company can appear in more than one area, so areas do not sum to the global total. “AI infrastructure and models” is Quid’s area “AI infrastructure/models/research/governance”.
- Sorted by 2025 value.

**Source:** [Quid](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#quid), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.2.16: *Global private investment in AI by focus area, 2024 vs. 2025*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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