Despite what some experts have characterised as an environment more and more hostile to AI research and development, North America still receives most dollars AI Venture, in keeping with the data from Investment Tracker Pitchbook.
Between February and May this 12 months, VCS poured $ 69.7 billion on artificial intelligence and machine learning startups in North America in 1528 contracts. Compared to $ 6.4 billion, which VC corporations have invested in European AI projects in 742 transactions in the same period.
According to Pitchbook, startups from Asia were doing a bit worse than their European counterparts. From February to May, VCS invested only $ 3 billion in Asian AI startups in 515 contracts.
Under President Donald Trump USA Dramatically reduce the funds For scientific subsidies related to basic AI research, it hindered foreign students specializing in artificial intelligence studying in the USA and he threatened to dismantle AI laboratories with university, freezing billions of dollars in federal funds. Meanwhile, the business policy of administration, including its retaliation tariffs, led to the chaotic market that is unfavorable to dangerous latest AI projects.
IN Post on X In March, Pioneer Ai and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton called on billionaire Elon Musk, who until recently advised a group reducing the costs of Trump, the Department of Government, to the excretion of the British royal society “due to the huge damage to the scientific institutions in the USA”
It may be expected that Europe, which has committed to grow to be a world leader in AI, will attract greater Venture capital in the light of the controversial Trump’s policy in the USA, which caused uncertainty and confusion for the founders, investors and researchers. In addition, the EU has committed tons of of billions of euros to support the development of artificial intelligence in its member countries and already has many successful, well -financed AI startups in its ranks (see Mistral, H and Aleph Alpha to say only a few).
But this expected change of global investments is not over. There is no mass mark of VC exodus to a block or significant increases in financing AI abroad – at least not yet.
The same applies to China, which gave birth to loud AI startups, akin to Deepseek and Butterfly Effect-Firma behind the Manus-but agency platform where VC activity in the country and a wider Asian region stays relatively strict. (Export control affects the ability of some Asian countries to acquire AI systems are almost actually a factor).
In 2024, startups from North America secured 75.6% of all AI VC financing – USD 106.24 billion. This participation only increased this 12 months. Until now, in 2025, AI investments in North America constitute 86.2% (USD 79.74 billion) of all VC funds for artificial intelligence around the world.
He paints a barely surprising picture. Even among the growing political and regulatory winds in the second term of Trump, the US remain the undisputed center of AI Capital, which suggests investors, drained, as they may be the unpredictability of administration, still count on innovations in the US to make sure the biggest phrases, at least for now.