Category
Spending
Investment, inference prices, and the capital behind the models.
10 numbers
Spending · US
$109.1billion
in U.S. private AI investment in 2024
Stanford HAI · Apr 7, 2025
Spending · Global
$252.3billion
in corporate AI investment in 2024
Stanford HAI · Apr 7, 2025
Spending · Global
$33.9billion
in private investment went to generative AI in 2024
Stanford HAI · Apr 7, 2025
Spending · China
$9.3billion
in private AI investment in China in 2024
Stanford HAI · Apr 7, 2025
Productivity · Global
49%
of respondents whose organizations use AI in service operations report cost savings
Stanford HAI · Apr 7, 2025
Compute · Global
$0.07
per million tokens was the cost to query a GPT-3.5-level model by October 2024
Stanford HAI · Apr 7, 2025
Spending · Global
$370billion
raised by frontier AI labs
Epoch AI · Feb 5, 2026
Compute · Global
$38billion
in up-front capital expenditure for a typical AI data center with 1 gigawatt of IT power
Epoch AI · Feb 5, 2026
Compute · Global
30%
of OpenAI's compute spending in 2024 was used on inference
Epoch AI · Feb 5, 2026
Compute · Global
3.5×
per year increase in the cost to train frontier language models since 2020
Epoch AI · Feb 5, 2026