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# The US–China gap in private AI investment widened to $273.5B in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-investment-by-region/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:14:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:01:39.000Z
- Description: US private AI investment rose to $285.9B in 2025 while China's was $12.4B and Europe's $20.9B.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Investment, AI in the US, AI in China, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-investment, #lens-us-china, #country-us, #country-china

$273.5B

gap between US ($285.9B) and Chinese ($12.4B) private AI investment in 2025

United States$285.9B

China$12.4B

## What the chart shows

US private AI investment rose from $109.5 billion in 2024 to $285.9 billion in 2025\. Over the same year China’s grew from $9.4 billion to $12.4 billion and Europe’s from $19.5 billion to $20.9 billion.

The gap between the US and China went from about $100 billion in 2024 to $273.5 billion in 2025.

## Key numbers

| Measure             | Value   |
| ------------------- | ------- |
| United States, 2025 | $285.9B |
| Europe, 2025        | $20.9B  |
| China, 2025         | $12.4B  |
| United States, 2024 | $109.5B |

## How to read it

- Europe groups European countries as defined by the AI Index.
- Nominal US dollars.

**Source:** [Quid](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#quid), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.2.11: *Global private investment in AI by geographic area, 2013–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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