Global investment in artificial intelligence to hit record $375 billion in 2025

Global investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is set to hit a record $375 billion in 2025, according to Reuters. That’s more than the combined spending on the last century’s landmark science and technology programs, including the moon landing and the Manhattan Project.

The Manhattan Project, which ran from 1942 to 1946 to develop the first atomic weapons, cost about $30 billion in today’s dollars. NASA’s 10-year Apollo program to land astronauts on the moon cost about $298 billion. That puts AI investment in 2025 at a level that even exceeds the funding for these historic initiatives.

According to Reuters, as of 2024, nearly $1.6 trillion had been invested in the AI ​​technology boom. These investments are having a massive impact on the global economy and are changing the direction of financial flows.

UBS analysts predict that global investment in AI will not only reach $375 billion in 2025, but will also exceed $500 billion by 2026. This flow of capital is stimulating the development of technologies and changing the strategies of companies in various sectors of the economy.

Reuters also notes that this technology boom is attracting special attention from Wall Street to market leaders and large technology corporations. At the same time, the rapid growth of investment carries the risks of a financial bubble and raises questions about the cyclicality of investment deals that support the rapid growth of company valuations.

Thus, artificial intelligence is becoming not only a scientific breakthrough, but also a new economic factor capable of shaping global financial flows and influencing the development of the global high-tech industry.